Afternoon guy's, First and foremost, let me just run through what I'm looking at using this PC for: It's going to be my main and only PC, used for simple things; -Browsing the internet -Listening to music -Playing a smidge of Football Manager -Watching DVD/TV What I want out of the system is as follows: -As quiet as possible -Looks good -Small as possible!! -Does the job it needs to... Budget: Give or take £500 for the base unit. An area I need a bit of advice on... In my room (where it'll be based), I don't have a TV aerial, just a Sky HD point to the dish - not paying for as it's not getting the use. What's going to be the easiest way to connect this up to a PC for freeview, hopefully HD channels? I'd like it to be as internal as possible (no USB bits knocking around if possible, PCI-E x1 card would be preference) My idea's so far would be the following: Base Replace the 220W PSU (it's known to not do the job and be noisy) for: PSU And then wang in a half decent low profile graphics card, with low power usage & heat (suggestions), a TV tuner card, a CPU cooler that's quiet and half decent (the case only has 1x80mm intake fan). Intruiged to know how you guys would do it.. Cheers!
+ a cheap aerial or grab a satellite tuner instead and point it at the freesat satellite. you cant get freeview via satellite it has to be aerial. on a side note if you wanted freeview hd you would need a dvb-t2 tuner such as this. Edit: If you have more than 20 posts you can get free delivery at Scan. If you are a student you can get discounted or free copies of Windows 7.
What about a freesat tuner? You can get four HD channels that way. The channel listing is not the quite the same but its near enough.
Would it pointless in buying a CPU cooler if you're not really overclocking? You could just keep it stock and put the money on something else?
