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Originally Posted by merovingian
One thing I would say it that I don't agree with the spec as being an "ultimate HTPC", at least not in absolute terms, because lots of things could still be upgraded there. However, in terms of a being a high-end system without paying stupid premiums, I would agree that it's at a sweet spot.
I definitely reckon you need more than 500GB (and 400GB drives generally give a better price per Gig), and an "ultimate" machine might even have 3 drives (or more) in a RAID 5 configuration?
Also, getting back to that word "ultimate" again, you aren't living up to the label unless you go with an 8000 series video card. IMHO of course.
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Hey Mero, without wanting to sound argumentative I have to disagree about the number of drives and about the video card. Personally I don't believe you need anything special in a video card for a HTPC. Remember it's not for gaming so if it's MCE compatible and can be configured appropriately then it should do but my feeling is if you're talking Vista you need to look at ATI due to the incompatibilities and shortcomings of Nvidia for now. Further I would say that as a HTPC for MCE you don't need mountains of disk space as you would be way better to store media on a NAS or other box to avoid the overheating and noise problems commonly associated with multiple drives.
Just my 2c