My Media PC is starting to take shape. Mainly as a small pile of boxes and a dented credit card, but it’s a start. I have an old Pentium III 500 which used to be my primary machine. The case, scsi drive and controller, and power supply will live on, but the mainboard and other junk will be binned. The current component list is :

• Asus mainboard (Nvidia nForce 3 chipset)
• Athlon 64 3000+
• OCZ Premium 512M on one stick
• 36 Gig WD Raptor harddrive
• Generic NVidia 5200 video card (VGA, DVI, TV-OUT SVID/COMP)
• NEC Dual Layer DVD drive/burner
• Apple white/clear USB keyboard (cute and has USB inputs)
• Logitech media player mouse
• Firewire for iPod, DV camera
• … Not yet purchased …
• Big harddrive ;-)
• HD TV card

Software stack will be Gentoo GNU/Linux custom-compiled. Mplayer. VideoLan, plus whatever else I need to build a kick ass media computer. MythTV might be cool to use, but installing it looks pretty involved.