The stock processor cooler that come with retail boxed processors working in concert with the excellent thermal management system of the case will do the job just fine of keeping your CPU nice and cool.
For our Intel motherboard we’ll want to get the MSI 865PE NEO3-FS (B0006ABV8O) or a similar i865PE chipset motherboard. This board has all the features of an i865PE board including dual channel DDR and support for Prescott chips. It also has support for USB2.0, Serial ATA, onboard Gigabit LAN and 6 channel audio. And with […]
You’ll want to have at least 512 MB of RAM for a high end multimedia computer. This will insure that you’ll be able to run multiple programs (TV recording, audio/video encoding, DVD playback) without slow down.
Since the Intel motherboard we picked has support for DDR2, pick up 2 sticks of 256 MB for it. […]