Here's a little insight into how we'll be using this box: House-wide Audio - MP3s, Pandora, etc. Primary Video - 70% downloaded, 20% ripped disks, 10% physical disks Secondary Video - 90% downloaded, 5% ripped disks, 5% physical disks For the downloaded/streamed content we'll be using bittorrent, Hu...

but separate audio as well, which is not easy at all with a PC. I agree this is nearly impossible in XP, but it shouldn't be too hard in Vista . . . Jesse - I'll probably be using Vista unless I get a real hair up my ass to combine my first build project with my first Linux install (not likely). My...

doh! I was so focused on the video requirements that I completely forgot about separate audio streams for each display. In the short term we could live with a cloned display but eventually they'll need to be independent. I didn't get as far as researching the front-end limitations but a media extend...

Looking to use this build for serving up audio and video to two rooms on a $750 budget. Tried to balance performance - cost - heat - noise - MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2HP AMD 780G HDMI mATX Motherboard - $80 CPU: AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor - $54 MEM: CORSAIR DOMINA...