Upgrade CPU and HDMI MB
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:26 am
With the help of this forum I built a silent PC mainly to play music on my HT back in 2007. It has:
Case Silverstone LaScala LC-20M
Mother Board Asus M2NPV-VM -- mATX
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Lima 2.4GHz
Memory 2 gigabytes DDR2 Memory
Power Supply Seasonic S12 430Watt PSU
DVD-CD Player Generic DVD CD Player
Case Fan PCExtreme 250mm 12 VDC Fan
CPU Cooler Thermalright ultra 90A
Hard Drive Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS 120GB
Keyboard Gyration Cordless Keyboard
Mouse Gyration Cordless Air Mouse
The MB was selected because it has component video out and the CPU was selected for minimal power consumption.
I would like to upgrade the motherboard to one that has HDMI output and upgrade the CPU to run Windows 7.
Back then Intel processors hogged power thus AMD. I assume the new Intel processors use less power. I've read the post on recommended MB but not much is said about power consumption and MB features.
Can anyone recommend a CPU and motherboard for this application? The PC will play music mostly. The music is on a high speed server in another room and this PC is wired to a CAT 6 network. I would like to use HDMI output from the MB. I'm feeding signal to two HDTV's, one next to the PC and one is upstairs and HDMI cables have been threaded through the walls, thus the HDMI output is needed. It will also play some movies again from the server.
Case Silverstone LaScala LC-20M
Mother Board Asus M2NPV-VM -- mATX
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Lima 2.4GHz
Memory 2 gigabytes DDR2 Memory
Power Supply Seasonic S12 430Watt PSU
DVD-CD Player Generic DVD CD Player
Case Fan PCExtreme 250mm 12 VDC Fan
CPU Cooler Thermalright ultra 90A
Hard Drive Western Digital Scorpio WD1200BEVS 120GB
Keyboard Gyration Cordless Keyboard
Mouse Gyration Cordless Air Mouse
The MB was selected because it has component video out and the CPU was selected for minimal power consumption.
I would like to upgrade the motherboard to one that has HDMI output and upgrade the CPU to run Windows 7.
Back then Intel processors hogged power thus AMD. I assume the new Intel processors use less power. I've read the post on recommended MB but not much is said about power consumption and MB features.
Can anyone recommend a CPU and motherboard for this application? The PC will play music mostly. The music is on a high speed server in another room and this PC is wired to a CAT 6 network. I would like to use HDMI output from the MB. I'm feeding signal to two HDTV's, one next to the PC and one is upstairs and HDMI cables have been threaded through the walls, thus the HDMI output is needed. It will also play some movies again from the server.