After a lot of headaches and trying to get various parts to work, I have to alter the pricelist a bit.
Subtract irman — the ir blaster does both input and output. THANKS FOR TELLING MEI later found out it works a lot better using the two IRs, so irman is good- don’t bother with tv-out. it’s just not good enough on linux
- Grandtec GXP-2000 Ultimate XP Pro scan converter — converts VGA to tv. 100$ from pcmall.com.
- you could probably shave 30$ off the ram by going with 256 instead of 512. I don’t know yet
Note also that the All-in-Wonder was unnecessary. Any video card with XVideo support is adequate
Looking at prices, I think ram dropped by about half. shit. I paid about 127 it seems, and now it’s 75$. whoa. And for 256 megs, that drops again to 42. ok, you could shave $80 off the ram.
You could also shave a bit off the video card since you don’t need tvout. You just need XVideo support for myth to work
Old total: 696.63
minus oopsies: 123
Plus scan converter: 112.17
new total: 685.80$
Even with the 100$ scan converter it’s cheaper because RAM IS FUCKING CHEAP. 75$ for half a gig is insane
current component table:
| Part | Company | Rating | Price (with shipping) |
| MOTHERBOARD COMBO-AMD DDR333 BUNDLE
|
aicmicro.com | 9.74 | 228.00 |
| ThermalTake TT420AD Power Supply (silent) |
enpc.com | 7.96 | 62.33 |
| HDD Seagate Barracuda V 60 GB (silent drive) |
bananapc.com | 9.22 | 89.62 |
| ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro 32MB | digitalstormonline.com | 9.42 | 84.69 |
| AverTV stereo capture card | Microcenter (brick store) | 49.99 | |
| Network card pillaged from old machine |
0.00 | ||
| DVD rom pillaged from old machine | 0.00 | ||
| IR Blaster (infrared transmitter to control cable box) |
snapstream media | only source, none | 30.00 |
| Grandtec GXP-2000 Ultimate XP Pro scan converter |
pcmall.com | 6.67 (not so hot) | 112.17 |
| Case | CTS computer (local store) | 30.00 | |
| total | 686.80 |