I've installed MC on many of my PC's for almost a year already, and they've all required some tweaking and finese to get them up and running perfectly. But last week I ordered some new PC components to build a replacement media only system for my ageing Gameroom system. The Gameroom PC was an old Pentium 4 2.6 gHz with 2 gigs ram and a decent HDMI compatible video card. All my music is stored on an external USB 3.0 2 terrabyte drive. All worked very fine on that PC and I was surprised at how flexible MC is when it comes to PC specs. The ONLY thing I use this Gameroom PC for is to play back my music files (up to 24/192) and DVD/Blu Ray movies. This Gameroom PC also streams those files to other HTPC's around the house. My new build is an AMD quad core Phenom II x 4 975 3.8 gHz cpu, 16 gigs RAM, ASUS mobo with built in ATI HD4250 HDMI video and SPDIF out, 120 gig Intel SSD drive for OS and files only, Windows 7 64bit, and all controlled on a touchscreen monitor. Everything installed the first time, and all tweaking went perfect the first time! No reverts, no BSOD, no tracking down what went wrong - everything just worked right the first time. MC installed, accepted the settings I gave it on the first try, and ran all auto-imports painlessly. Now music playback, as well as all my movies and videos (DVD, Blu Ray, AVI's mpg's, etc) all play smooth-asa-snot, fast, no hiccups, perfect color, and the music is as clear and wonderful as ever. I've never had a media center install and fire up on the first try before. MC 17 works beautifully on Win 7 64 bit, and runs faster than Superman. I just can't believe how fast and super smooth MC is.
Thanks Matt. I just had to commend you guys for building a solid and fllexible, no BS media center!
Jimmy