They are not intended to be used as a game center, or anything like that
are they? I keep reading articles on how to build them, and they always
seem to use pretty fast components, .... fast CPUs, video cards, 2GB of
RAM, none of which is needed for a playback machine. Plus high end fast
stuff is going to run hot and creating fan noise.
I am planning on using a Semperon 64 3400, 1.5 GB of RAM, a basic large
72K GW drive, and a ATI AIW 9600 PRO none of which put out a lot of heat
or noise....
Do I have the concept right here.... they are mostly playback
devices....right?
All just depends. That video card would choke on high bitrate H.264 video
streams, especially with the (relatively) weak CPU.
