Rig for CCTV, games, movie dl & streaming

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Rig for CCTV, games, movie dl & streaming

jonkerboy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:43:34 +0800

Hi everybody, I'm planning to build a workhorse rig. I hope all you sifus can give me some advice on the mobo, proc, ram and hdd choices. Thx in advance.

The rig will be used mainly for:
1. downloading movies;
2. recording TV/Astro programs;
3. streaming the said movies to my living room's TV via Wireless Media Player (such as the D-Link DSM320 http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=318) and
4. to do CCTV recording.

Weekends, my 10-year-old son will also use it to play online games. (He just told me he hopes to play CS on it too ).

I already have spare monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, DVD burner and a new Enermax Coolergiant 480W PSU lying around. And I dont mind waiting for a DirectX 10 budget gc to be available and use the onboard graphic in the meantime. So I hope I'll not need to spend too much on this rig.

For the hdd, I wonder how big it needs to be that's good for one week's of CCTV recording (with motion-detection on of course)? Also, pls take into consideration that it'll also be used to download Korean series/movies (for the home minister lah)during the day when no one is using the broadband connection at home.

Will I be able to get away with around RM1000 for such a rig (I dont mind chapalang casing)?

TQ!

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