My dvd/divx/mp3 machine

[akira]

Hello,

I just wanted to share with you what i build

Its a movie/music/game box with a matrox g400 in it :-)



Specs :

Amd Athlon 1800
Chaintech AI7A Moederbord
ATA 100, 3pci/cnr/1agp/2dimm
256mb 133mhz Sdram
40 Gigbyte Seagate Baracuda ATA-100
Samsung 16x DVD Speler
Matrox g450 Dualhead DDR 32mb
Realtek 10/100mbit netwerk kaart
Draadloos Mini-toetsenboard met ingbouwde muis
Creative Soundblaster 4.1 Digital :
4 poorts USB HUB

more pics here how i build id

http://members.lycos.nl/dolfyn0/

now i run windows 98 on it.
i notice when i watch a divx movie , i stutters every 7 seconds just a little bit.. i installed the g400 fix, but its still anoying..
no problems with dvd playback

and i wondered how i could change the refreshrate a little. soms txt flickers a little to much..

[MPR]

WOW! Very nice. If I hadn't seen the pictures on how you built it I would never believe that was really a computer.

[Kooldino]

Nice, I was looking for an old peice of equip to build a PC in, but I couldn't find one the right size, so i made one out of legos.

[Tempest]

Very cool.

Draadloos Mini-toetsenboard met ingbouwde muis

Okay, English speakers might have a little problem interpreting that But I know Swedish, so I'm guessing that this is "Wireless mini-keyboard with built-in mouse".

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by Tempest
Very cool.Okay, English speakers might have a little problem interpreting that But I know Swedish, so I'm guessing that this is "Wireless mini-keyboard with built-in mouse".

Actually it's Dutch but the translation is perfect.

[Tempest]

Originally posted by KeiFront
Actually it's Dutch but the translation is perfect.

I know it's Dutch! But Swedish and Dutch just happen to resemble each other quite a lot:

Draadloos Mini-toetsenboard met ingbouwde muis -> Trådlös Mini-tangentbord med inbyggd mus.

Edit: Okay, I know some German too, and that might help quite a lot when reading Dutch...

[KeiFront]

Do you got some swedish articles to test my swedish .

[Guru]

Nice!

[thop]

drahtlose mini-tastatur mit eingebauter maus. (it is very much pronounced like the written druch above)

[TnT]

For better DivX playback try Zoom Player at http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/

I have a Marvel G200 and the same CPU and sometimes I'd get stuttering with DivX Player and WMP, but with Zoom Player everything plays perfectly.

I've been wanting to build something like this except with 2 massive HDs for capture and storage, a HDTV card (cause I'm in the US), an infrared remote, 7.1 sound, and DVD-(whatever the hell the standard is for burning). But then I remembered I'm in college and have no money, but a man can dream...

[DirtFarmer]

Very impessive work. Wish I could read Dutch

[ALBPM]

Hey, who needs a translation????

He used Duct Tape and a Hammer. I understand perfectly.

Nice !!!!

Paul

[Greebe]

LOL

[akira]

Thanks guys :-)

At first i had a matrox g450 but , with games i got that stuttering cause of lack of hardware cloning. so i got a g400 with that chip on it. Much better now.

Ill try zoom player for beter divx playback this week.

Sorry that its dutch.. the txt is not much interesting anyway..

i can tell you that i had to saw off 1 cm of my soundblaster to make it fit. you can see in the pictures the before and after :-)

I just need some nice software like windows media center of media-box, but they all miss options i need..