thought i would share my week spent buidling this pvr/htpc.
it's based on the shuttle xpc sb51g which is the older intel845g chipset
i had a p41.7 and 256mb corsair xms 3500 which is way ott for this as the cpu is only 400fsb so the only ram settings in the bios is 266
but when i decide to upgrade my main rig the 2.53 that is running at 3.3 will replace the 1.7 and stay at 2.53.
i added the following
another 256mb of the corsair 3500
120gb samsung low noise hdd
ati radeon 9600se with no fan just heat sink cooling
wintv pvr 250
black samsung dvdrom
this is what it looks like after i made a custom front to replace the plain one.
the front is acrylic with a thin plastic sheet to hide the chassis. i scanned this sheet and using a flood fill in paintshop gave it a gradiant fill from black at the top to match the dvdrom to silver at the bottom. also added some dvd / dts dolby logos too.