That was an interesting article on THG and has got me back to pondering a HTPC. This is my current shopping list but I'm having trouble sourcing the cooler to go onto the 3000+... (this is currently sourced from two different websites so you may find different prices elsewhere)
MSI RS480M2-IL ATI XPRESS 200g mATX PCI-Express Motherboard £64.95
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ £74.95
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 £64.95
Samsung SpinPoint P 250GB SATA-II £70.75
Panasonic UJ845B Slotload DVD-RW £89.00
Low Profile Media Case - Matt Silver £49.00
Flexible PCI Riser Cable for Eve / Media Case £9.50
Compro VideoMate DVB-T300 Digital & Analog TV £54.95
Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 £69.95
Total £548.00
I'm a torn over the system as I have two choices, either an internal tuner or a better graphics card. The board includes a X300 which should be fine for DVD, and general PVR usage but it seems a waste having a great gaming cpu in a PVR.
Let me know what you think.
Nick