HELP with HTPC

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charbs152

Discussion Starter · Mar 13, 2009

my dad wants to build a PC to hook up to his stereo. hes got an older Onkyo amp and EQ and some nice speakers (upgrading to polk At 7 or 9's in the near future)

we want to rip all of our audio Cd's to FLAC

can anyone help with a build?
it has to have a 1TB drive and a XiFi sound card and under $400

i was thinking:
small cheap black case $20
Optical drive: $25
Cheap AMD dual core Athlon X2 $40
1TB HDD $90
2Gb Ram $20
Cheap mAtx Mobo with onboard video $40
decent 400-500 Watt PSU $50
Creative Xtreme Gamer $80
Wireless Keyboard and mouse $20

any thoughts? or input?

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Tator Tot

· #2 · Mar 13, 2009

Rosewill R-105P-BK $24
Lite-ON DvD Sata drive $18
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ $40
Western Digital 1TB HDD $105
Kingston Value RAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 2x2Gb Ram $20
Zotac Geforce 8100 $42 after MIR
Seasonic300watt 80plus certified PSU $40
Creative X-fi Xtreme Titanium $85
Microsoft Wireless X64 KBM $21

Total = $395 after 1 MIR

W/ shipping before MIR you will be around 450$ maybe..

Either way, that should do everything you want and be perfect for your needs.

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Mr Bear

· #3 · Mar 13, 2009

FLAC is going to take up a lot of space. I have my FLAC files on my server, but it does take up a lot of space. Why not rip them to 320kbps mp3's and make them more compatible.

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charbs152

Discussion Starter · #4 · Mar 13, 2009

because there is a huge difference when listening to mp3 vs FLAC with high end audio equipment

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Mr Bear

· #5 · Mar 15, 2009

If you really believe that, okay

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Tator Tot

· #6 · Mar 16, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Bear

If you really believe that, okay

Its 100% true.
They are not compressed audio.

But its also an ear thing.

I have trouble listening to flac if its just in my left ear, as that one is damaged some.

But if I use both ears and listen to a Flac song it sounds much better than a MP3 320kbs song.

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