Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 6150 GPU - n/a
We have already mentioned about the Nvidia GeForce 6150 GPU as being one of the reasons for choosing the motherboard. Just to refresh your memory not only does the 6150, have full support for High-Def video (H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD-Video Playback formats), it has an HD bracket that makes it possible to output 1080i content. The 6150 GPU is also Windows Vista Premium ready, and is available for free on our choice of motherboard.

Sound: Creative X-FI Platinum (Rs. 15,500)
In our quest for the perfect AV experience, a lot of us go gaga over picture quality and often pay no attention to sound quality. We think this is wrong, as good audio is as big a part of the movie watching experience.For good sound we didn’t need to look too far.The answer lay in the Creative X-Fi which is one of the best PC accessories money can buy right now.

In the PC audio market, Creative has been 500-pound Gorilla for a long time. Their products have defined and shaped the PC Audio industry for both gaming and quality of audio output. Their latest range of X-FI ( extreme fidelity ) products have now reached the incredible level where despite being at their far lower price points, they can arguably take on the very high-end production sound cards like the Delta 66 and still hold their own. The X-FI are in fact THX certified, up to 7.1 channels and are capable of Dolby as well as DTS decoding thereby providing absolute best quality audio from your DVDs.

Hard Disks: Seagate ST3320620AS 2x 320GB (Rs.4,650x2 = Rs.9,300)
The cost of HDD storage today has become a joke. Prices have come down so hard and fast, that we are willing to bet that by the time our article goes online, the next generation of storage will be upon us and will be half as cheap as the previous generation.

Jokes apart, one can never have enough space. The Seagate drive we have used has 2 advantages over offerings from other manufacturers. The first advantage is that it uses perpendicular recording technology for its storage purposes. Perpendicular record storage is a next-gen method of storage under which the data is stored horizontally as compared to the longitudinal method of storage that is the current norm. This is advantageous in several ways. It not only allows, HDDs to have higher capacities in the same size that they are currently, it also gives a fair performance boost. It is this performance boost which is our second advantage. The Seagate we have used here is in fact as fast some of Western Digital’s Raptor Performance drives series which cost 3 times as much.