pleasant day off.....

shuki · Oct 20, 2003, 07:50 AM

I usually have Mondays as my day off. how did I spend this part of it so far? playing mp2 (up to part III now), watched out of time (great movie), read up on ripping dvd to divx/xvid (

) and now decided to add a pc to our HT setup (sick of burning SVCD to watch once and pitch and office chairs aren't so comfy for me and the wife...). So just placed my newegg order of:

NEC 1300A DVD burner
NEC DVD drive
OEM sapphire r8500
WD 80Gm 8mb cache hdd
NF7-S mobo

Figure now I will give the wife the nf7 v1.1 I have and I will get the new v2.0

Then I'll take her old kx7-333 mobo and build a very quiet home theater pc with it. Figure I'll use:
kx7-333
xp1700
512 samsung chipped pc2700
r8500
santa cruz sound card
80Gb WD hdd
network it into our home network and be all set

How did I get to this point you ask?? well, I first went looking for a stand alone divx and xvid player but none could be found (for very cheap anyhow). For $200 I figured why not! Just bought components I did not have and figure I'll load up mr. 80Gb with mp3's and movies

Now the long wait for international shipping

Judas · Oct 20, 2003, 07:55 AM

erg..the shipping.... hope it isn't as much as shipping from the US to canada... (67$ for a 20$ part)

**MIG-31** · Oct 20, 2003, 08:02 AM

i know about delivery costs.

i would like a new side panel with window for my jeantech butterfly case black/silver that on xcase site they have 4 in stock for £7.99 inc vat.the only thing that is putting me off from ordering is the £10 delivery charge.

the most i have ever paid for postage is £8 for next day delivery and that were for items coming to a total of £360.

***Zardon*** · Oct 20, 2003, 08:36 AM

get a low noise PSU shuki and a zalman cooler with an almost silent hard drive cooler for the theatre rig, ive built an XP2200 (1.5 volt) windows 2003 (on 24/7) and its virtually silent and runs at low to mid 40 temps. (unlike my main rig which is pretty loud !)

Those Zalman coolers rock as long as you dont start overclocking and raising core voltages !

ive got the NEC1300a myself and I flashed the firmware to a modded one (im in work dont have the link) and I can now burn some cheap single speed minus R media (50 discs for £20) at 2x. fantastic burner as well as offering better media support overall (with the modded firmware) !