This build is still in progress and I'm crossing my fingers for success. It should be able to do the MCE stuff as well as play almost any game I can throw at it, including most Win9x-era titles. My goal here is to create a kickass HTPC that covers alot of ground. However, I seem to have figured out how to get all the drivers and software installed. I should have looked at the auction pictures better.
The Audigy 2 ZS is unfortunately a SB0358 Dell variant. However, this time around I'm going to be using WinXP MCE 2005 with SP3. I've decided to keep it at WinXP since it seems to offer the most compatibility for games that interest me. I'm building a new HTPC since my old Athlon 64 system is having issues. I'm currently doing something very similar to your build with similar goals. In your experiences what type of CPU can push this thing close to its limits? Would a Core2 Duo E8400 (3.0-GHz, 1333-MHz FSB) do the trick? I might build a LGA 1155 system instead with a Celeron with the intentions of upgrading it later to a faster clocked Pentium or i3. (Might start with a 8800 GTX I have, then upgrade to the GTX 285 later)Ĭreative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic SB0460 sound card: because it's the cheapest 'real' X-Fi with EAX, good DACs, etc. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 video card: because it's fast and because it's fast. Windows XP SP2 32-bit (maybe SP3? discuss) I have more, or less, decided on the following so far. I honestly feel anything more than a dual core would be a waste but I have been wrong before. It should be either LGA 775 or LGA 1155 based.
Hello Crysis and F.E.A.R.! I am not planning on doing anything fancy like SLI or exotic CPU platforms. I am going to play a lot of stuff I missed out on in the 2000's and be able to do so without low frames-per-second and at high resolution. It will not dual boot or do anything besides playing games in Windows XP. I could call it a XP box but in reality I do plan to play some games much later than XP but are still DirectX 9.0. Alright I am finally building a dedicated box for DirectX 9.0c.
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