Holiday Project Set Top Box Complete!
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If you recall an early post about my holiday projects, I salvaged a bunch of spare parts and built an old set top box out of it.Originally it looked like this:
Now it looks like this:
It works great on my TV that only takes RCA composites.
Cody pointed me to geeks.com, which is a good site for cheap parts. The site is perfect for projects like this, where you don't want to spend a ton of cash on a junk computer. The case was $16 bucks and I got a wireless G PCI card for $10 bucks, and I splurged and replaced the huge ass hard drive with a 250 GB hard drive for $33 bucks.
Specs
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- AMD Duron 1.8GHZ (overclockable, I have gotten it to about 2.2-2.4GHZ in the past, but did not overclock this one since I am not gaming on it.)
- 1.5 GB of ram
- 250 GB, 7200 RPM Maxtor Plus II hard drive
- I had to replace the GeForce 6800GT with a Radeon 9200 because the 9200 had RCA plugs and the S-Video to RCA converter wasn't working right on the 6800GT.
- Windows XP Pro SP3
For something to surf the net on and watch Videos, I am very happy with it, a total cost of $70
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Welcome to the internet ^_^ awesome prices galore where you can go to bestbuy and only find video cards 4 series down that are 7 years old for about 100.00 xD
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u smell life feet.
but cool before and after picks lol
the old computer im talking about is a amd athlon 3200 x64 with 1 gig ram and a 7300gt
i dont have watercooling for that the watercooling i got fits umm my 754 board i cant remember if it fit am2 or not i think it also fit 775`s but i used it on my 3200 athlon
If it is a Socket A, and has an ATI 7200, water cooling is overkill, sounds like a computer Tim the Toolman Taylor would`ve built back in the day.
that case was 16 hmm not bad lookin either it looks to have a quite simple setup im in the process of figuring out what i have in this older comp I just inherited I think its a old socket a AMD it has a ATI 7200 in it or somethin tells me its about 8 years old. I`d like to sell my old computer i`d even throw in the watercooling block and radiator with it for 100.00 but all that its gonna come with is the board ram cpu and the heatsink it has on it now its really a nice setup
Nice dude, looks sick as hell with that wii box and guitar hero guitar.