I’m trying to put together a system for my friend. It’s a lot harder than I remember it!Almost easier to go out and buy a HP z560 though they’re pricey at $1700.

So, anyone have thoughts on the following config:

SILVERSTONE LASCALA 10 CS-SST-LC10B Black Aluminum front panel, 1.0mm SECC body ATX Media Center Computer Case – $99.99

Thermaltake TR2 W0070RUC ATX 430W Power Supply 115/230 V – $39.99

ASUS M2N4-SLI Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard – $88.99

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+(65W) Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor – $109

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive – OEM – $144.99

AVERMEDIA AVERTVHD MCE A180 DIGITAL TV TUNER – $81.13 x 2 – Recommended by a lead PM on the Media Center TV team

CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory – $139.99

GIGABYTE GV-NX76G256D-RH GeForce 7600GS 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Silent Pipe Lead Free Video Card – $102.99 – No fan

The TV he is looking at, VIZIO VX37L HDTV – 37″ LCD HDTV -

The antenna, The Winegard PR-4400 4-Bay

Added:

NEC Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE / ATAPI DVD Burner – $30.99

MASSCOOL Stars-700 Silver thermal grease – $1.99

Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply 115/230 V TUV, UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC – $69.99

GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard – $79.99

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A hockey buddy of mine who used to work on the Microsoft DVR (code named Babylon) e-mailed me the other day about the ‘Series limit has been reached’ dialog:

Ok Matt, this error dialog is pissing me off like crazy. I’ve been googling for solutions and haven’t found any though your name keeps popping up on pages dealing with this. What’s the skinny? Can I make this go away in Media Center 2005? Is there a private build floating around with this abomination turned off?

I checked in with my friends on the TV team and sadly you cannot turn this off in Media Center 2005. However, it is turned off in Windows Vista.

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