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Background

I'm a Professional Engineer with a 1999 undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering. Born and raised in beautiful Puerto Rico (http://welcome.topuertorico.org/index.shtml). Started getting involved with LinuxMCE in March 2009. I have development history in hardware and software.

LinuxMCE is used in our house primarily for media (recorded TV, videos and music).

This is my original shopping list from March 2009.

My shopping list
Item Cost Description Website
Case $58.99 hec Black 0.7mm Thickness SECC Steel 7KJ9 Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121068
CPU $78.00 AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Dual-Core black edition http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103300
Motherboard $89.99 ASUS M3N78-EM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8300 HDMI Micro ATX AMD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131354
RAM $22.99 Kingston HyperX 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104012
Hard Drive $34.99 Western Digital Caviar Blue WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822135106
BluRay Player $99.99 LITE-ON Black 6X Blu-ray DVD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal 6X Blu-Ray DVD ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Model iHES106-29 - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106270
TV Capture $159.99 SiliconDust HDHomeRun Network-based Dual Digital HDTV Tuner Ethernet Interface http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815327005
2nd NIC $19.99 Rosewill RC-401-EX 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express Gigabit Low Profile Network Card 1 x RJ45 - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166015
Transceiver $55.00 USB UIRT http://www.usbuirt.com/order.htm
Remote $80.83 Gyration GYR3101US Universal Infrared / RF Remote Control http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880105001&Tpk=gyration
Sound Card --- Realtek ALC1200 - 8 Channels In MoBo
Graphics card --- NVIDIA GeForce 8300 In MoBo
Thermal Compound $5.99 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007
LinuxMCE FREE!!! Woooohooo! http://www.linuxmce.com/

Total: $711.74 Did not include shipping and handling.


Setup

Core/Hybrid

Will be adding more to the page as time permits.

Other stuff

  • Had to purchase a powerline networking adapter because of the location of the system.

Plans

  • To actively contribute to the LinuxMCE community and progress;