Yay, go me, time to re-do my system.

[NssOne]

I'm going to now completely redo my system here so I can use my old 40 gig master drive in my new computer project. Then I'm going to replace it with my old 60 gig extra hard drive which will be replaced by my new 160 gig disk. I just felt like adding one more meaningless thread to the off-topic forum.

Project (Yeah I suppose you could call it shameless self-promotion)

 

[Rico]

You made a logo to promote your new PC. Dude, that's pretty sad

 

[jegHegy]

umm yeah

 

[NssOne]

You made a logo to promote your new PC. Dude, that's pretty sad

Well, actually, the logo is for the article I'm writing on how to make a smaller, cheaper PC used just for playing and storing MP3's on a wireless home network from a remote PC.

 

[kjun]

You made a logo to promote your new PC. Dude, that's pretty sad

Well, actually, the logo is for the article I'm writing on how to make a smaller, cheaper PC used just for playing and storing MP3's on a wireless home network from a remote PC.

sounds like an xbox

 

[NssOne]

Except it's not necessarily used for playing game though, there's the difference.

It's an actual PC, fully expandable.

 

[jegHegy]

actual PC...so you ARE building an xbox.

 

[NssOne]

:sigh: Fine, if you people insist on calling it that. I don't get why you want to call it that since it has nothing to do with XBOX in any way. I just don't get why you people want to call it that....

 

[kjun]

Sorry, its just that i know quite a few people that did the same project, using an xbox running linux, cheap pc system really

 

[jegHegy]

yeah, you'd probably be better off buying one.

 

[Rico]

We'll see. An MP3 server would surely be just a mobo, big HD, a little mem, wireless card... you wouldn't even need a monitor if you install remotely and shell into it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe you don't even need the video card (would a PC refuse to boot if it had no video card?) You could get these parts for perhaps £200-£250 if you shop around. An XBOX would cost about £120-£130 (from Amazon) and plays games to boot, but you don't have wireless LAN, and you'd need to shell out for a mod chip unless you use the Mechammer et al cracks.

 

[jegHegy]

(would a PC refuse to boot if it had no video card?)

don't mini/micro/nanoatx mobos have integrated grapics? would make sense

 

[NssOne]

I was smart and found a cheap mobo with onboard video. It's an older microatx anyways.