Help Buying a Media center pc

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May 4th, 2007, 08:08 PM

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Help Buying a Media center pc

hy there pals,

I am thinking of buying a mediacenter pc as well as for video editing.

my budget is upto $700
some of the specification i want are:
300GB or more hard disk
2GB memory
DVD writer
Video (composite and S-video In and outputs) with firewire
TV tuner, Nvida Ge. 7300 or more Graphics card
and a good processor for multitasking and video editing.

Currently i have found a HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7580n PC, refurbished for $700 at HP.com

any comments on this pc, or other alternatives

thanks
ese

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May 6th, 2007, 11:53 PM

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for $700 that looks like a damn good deal to me. You can't build anything new for that price... at least not when I add it all up in my head.

One problem is the hard drive. You'll want a separate system disc so you don't have problems with windows slowing down when you're editing large videos on the media drive. So just go buy another extra small (even used) drive for the system partition.

The motherboard isn't HP... its an ASUS... so thats ok... I couldn't find any info on the ASUS website about it tho. so it might be something they make only for HP... but at least HP doesn't make it.

And then of course you have no monitor... or is a monitor included in that refurbished set too?

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