Here is the current situation
Desktop PC
- Case: corsair Obsidian 550D
- Chip: Intel i5-2500 3.3Mhz
- Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
- 1GB
- Mobo: ASUS P8Z77-V LK
- Ram: 16Gb Corsair Vengence
- Win 7 home Premium
- Onboard Network (how do I tell if this is Gb ready?) ... pc order says 'Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)'
- Ceton InfiniTV 6 (TV card)
- Single Monitor
Other items in the home computer set-up ...
- Ethernet & wireless Network(s)
- Cable modem, router, switch, patch panel soon to be up and running
- 2 x TVs supported by Ceton extenders over Ethernet (working well so far)
- Civ4 (yes, a 10yr old game)
- Editing pictures (gimp)
- recording TV
- starting to look at processing the recorded TV to remove ads (depends if I can get WMC to 'see' the new files)
- coding (VB6, python, html, css, etc)
Desktop PC requirements
- quiet(!)
- cool looking and cool temp
- not an eye sore (ie no flashing lights, colorful fans, etc)
- fast access storage
- move backup routine to NAS support
- could move recorded TV processing to NAS system responsibility (so it may need some CPU grunt behind it)
- this PC will be in the basement so there are no noise or light restrictions (within reason)
- music (played to other PCs / Macs and Sonos sound system)
- pictures
- 3.5" WD HDD that holds backups of my desktop PC O/S and user data
- backup of Mac (if I can convince the wife to do that)
- Recorded TV
- DVD Movie collection (currently on DVDs but I am thinking of ripping them to something easier to organize)