HTPC Back Online

So after 18 months or so of being without a running HTPC I finally got around to building a new one. The wife and girls are ecstatic and I must say I am pleased myself. The biggest thing for me was the time to just sit down and put it together. That and the fact that I am such a cheap bastard.

I will post some pictures later but the setup is as follow. The hardware is an EVGA nForce 730a, Athlon X26000, 4GB memory, around a terabyte of HD space, all Serial ATA, and EVGA Geforce 9500 and an HP DVD burner I had laying around from my last desktop. I have a USB-Serial converter for my connection to my cable box, a Firefly receiver and remote. My three TV tuners are all Hauppauge. A PVR USB 2 and a PVR150MCE both receiving from coax and a PVR250BTV receving component video from my Motorola DCT2000 cable box.

My sound is an SPDIF cable from the built-in motherboard audio into my Sony receiver and surround sound speakers. I've also got an XBox in there somewhere as well.

The software I am using is BeyondTV for recording and watching TV, Meedio for music and some movies as well as weather and news and TheaterTek for DVDs.

I'll post again later with pictures and more detailed specs.