For some reason i just like doing these... although cable management is a pain still. (maybe more so for the upcoming build)
anyways heres what i plan on using for the TV based build (STC) (instead of painfully typing it out) and once again all pricing and such was taken from http://www.memoryexpress.com/
(Updated July 17th)
+already have a 550w power supply (WHICH IS BROKEN) i need that 600w+
although i wanted to go with a SSD for a boot device this time they had nothing lower than 120gb which is still kind of expensive (with the 3TB drive as the main storage for both OSes)\
also i want to plant a Graphics card in there but i wasn't sure on how much money i have at the moment so it might get added in later
Planned Operation: TV use / Gaming Capture / Linux / Steam / Replacing my somewhat dying laptop
OS: Linux / Windows 7 (64bit, Wait is a waste)
plus the Capture device is working like i wanted it to: Source: YouTube
Do you really need that capture card?
I thought you could just get any cheapo TV tuner, plug your console (that's what I'm assuming you're doing) in and encode video using capture software.
07/07/2013 10:59 PM
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never built a pc so i don't know too much on that side but looks cool anyway. i was planning on building a pc before but i think I'm swayed more towards the power mac side atm as i use logic pro to record and i do really like my macbook (just want something with more grunt to be honest).
(09/07/2013 11:27 AM)Syfe Wrote: Although not sure if I can use both the graphics card and the capture device
Shouldn't be an issue at all.
I don't know exactly what that capture device does above a basic TV tuner. From what I skimmed over, it seems that it's just a hardware H.264 encoder or something like that, and probably a bunch of the cost goes into the (typically crappy) bundled software.
Capture devices appear as video inputs (video card is an output).