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My current desktop is a Antec P180 Duo, its reliable but just a little to big with the Antec P180 case being rather hefty in size lol. Its cooling is good, and all around its a ace PC for me. It does anything i ask, and does it rather quick to my old Blue Dell XPS machine. I am thinking of upgrade it, and getting a smaller case for when i move into my new place. The only slight problem is if i go for a Media Centre Case, it only fits 4 harddrives usually, anymore and the PC will be crapt beyond belife. So the new P180 Mini might be the solution to my problem, its new and has all the great aspects of the newer models like the awsome P190 which has 2 power units built in for extreme gameing needs lol.

While checking out the different Micro Atx motherboards, i have seen differen veriations like the Asus P5K-VM Intel G33 which is the older version of the Asus P5E-VM. While looking around, people have been saying why do you want to use the Asus P5E-VM for a small gameing rig. Since some people are useing it for that. Since the overclocking options are quite good for a average to intermidiate (reviewers opion). To me theres no classification, just how much your willing to spend on a rig/setup. If you want true power theres watercooling, if you want higher theres nitro and other chemical methods to keep it cool. But those sort of setups are deadly expensive, and can do normal tasks in a instant of a secound compared to normal ones. But nobody wants that type of expense. So some people have been trying to persuade others to stick to Atx and stay away from Micro Atx boards, saying that x38 is a better buy or the P35. The newer reviews talk about the P45, and how in some ways that chipset will form a new micro atx board. So when i was thinking that the micro atx may phase out since there arent that many boards aviable if you look for x48, x38 there are not that many, well mainly not that many x48 aviable. But hopefully nobody will forget about the micro atx lines, since lots of media centre pcs use them. But what i think will happen is, people will create the atx, then make the micro afterwards.

Antec Mini-P180 Micro-ATX Silent Midi-Tower Case £84.59
Asus P5E-VM HDMI Intel G35 Micro-ATX (Socket 775) DDR2 £91.64/£88.11
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 “Energy Efficient SLACR 95W” £131.59
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £70.49
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache – OEM (HD103UJ) £101.04
Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/512M HD £56.39
Asus ATI Radeon EAH3650/HTDI/256M HD £50.51

Antec MX-1 Actively Cooled Hard Drive Enclosure £34.06

Asus P5E-VM HDMI Asus website
Asus P5E-VM Hdmi NewEgg.com Reviews
Asus P5K-VM NewEgg.com Specs
Asus P5K-VM Hdmi NewEgg.com Specs
Antec Mini P180: A micro-ATX P182 Review
Asus P5E-VM HDMI: A microATX C2D board for gamers? Review
Modu82+ 625 Power Supply: Enermax to the Forefront Review
Antec P182 Advanced Super Midtower Case: P180 v.2 Review
Recommended Heatsinks Review
Recommended Power Supplies Review
Power Supply Fundamentals Review
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/asus_p5e_vm_hdmi/

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http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Asus_P5E-VM_HDMI/5427-1.html
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/asus/p5e-vm-hdmi/g1.htm

Finally the Tv capture world has moved onto Pci Express x1, that may not sound like anything to some people. But to me, its finally something i didnt think i would see really. Since out of the motherboards i have had in the past couple of years with the upgrade to PCI Express slots, you usually got 1 or 2 PCI Express x16 then 1 or 2 PCI Express x1 then the rest where just normal PCI. The qeustion was, what the heck do you use those PCI Express x1 slots for? No real card for ages went into them, and its become more common now to have more PCI Express x1 then normal PCI, which confused the heck out of me, since there was nothing really in the market to use them for?!?! Untill now, when i was searching Overclockers.co.uk for different new Tv Capture/Saterllite/Digital/Freeview Receivers  (its a long name) to see what was out these days. To my suprise  they now have PCI Express x1 cards available, well not the brand i usually go for. Im not a fan of LeadTek really, there software isnt that brilliant, but then neither is Hauppauge really. Well untill i did the update for there v6 software a couple of months or so ago. But to be fair, a friend had a LeadTek card before and i dont think he was that impressed with it, compared to the Hauppauge one. But have a old analogue TV capture card from a while ago, that was the best Hardware encoder one. Really easy to use, and didnt really need much software programing, but the Hauppauge schedular was totally crap. I just left the card recording all night, then just stripped the video file with Tmpg software. I bought the Hauppauge 3000 Hybrid when i did Antec P180, which had digital satellite, Freeview digital and analogue capture modes. Which was worthless really, since the digital satellite i couldnt use, since i couldnt connect to a satellite dish in my room, plus for what i paid. I would of been better of getting the Hauppauge 1300 which had a hardware encoder and only did Freeview digital and analogue capture which i do use lol.

The new ones out now are the 4000 hybrid which does High Definition digital satellite, DVB-S, Freeview digital terrestrial and anlogue TV. Which is what the heck? You carnt even really get normal satellite capture, without needing high definition version?!?!

The new PCI Express x1 are the 1200 which does freeview and analogue, the 1700 is the same as the 1200 but has a hardware encoder so it doesnt impact on your system at all. The best is the 2200 which has the same as the 1200 and 1700, where it records freeview and analogue but with the ability to records 2 shows, or record 1 while watching another. It also has a hardware encoder for before, so it doesnt impact on the system at all. Makeing it a very good card for Media Centre builds!

Where as the old PCI are the 1100 which does freeview and analogue, the 1300 which did the same as the 1100 but with a hardware encoder built-in. The 3000 doesDVB-S, Freeview digital terrestrial and anlogue TV, and the 4000 High Definition digital satellite, DVB-S, Freeview digital terrestrial and anlogue TV.