[mythtv-users] OT: Hardware purchase question for eventual HD Mythtv system

[Calvin Dodge]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Mark Boyum <mark at boyum.us> wrote:
> Our Myth system died a sudden death earlier this week.  Yet another
> motherboard died with bad caps.

> So I am looking at
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.194454
> to purchase as a low end desktop for now.  Eventually it will likely
> become a MythTV frontend.  It has been 12 or so years since I last
> built a PC.  Is there anything else that would need to be purchased in
> addition to that combo deal?  Specifically, does the AMD retail CPU
> box include a cooler?

Retail CPUs (both AMD and Intel) include heatsink/fan units.

OEM CPUs do not.

Calvin