2012-04-02, 19:43
OK. I'm really tired of reading, and just want to buy something already!!! Thanks so much to guys like Poofy, eskro, and Bluray for taking the time to put together all this info. I just have a few questions before I pull the trigger. I originally posted this in eskro's A6-3500 thread, but I can already imagine him telling me to start a new thread; so I did. Sorry for the double post!
Will the A6-3500 be able to do SABnzbd extractions without affecting playback? Right now, this is the only thing I don't like about my Acer Revo 3610. I have to schedule SAB to only run while we are sleeping, so we don't have to put up with buffering/stuttering every time SAB does it's UNRAR stuff, and while Sickbeard and Couch Potato do post-processing. I use XBMC Eden under W7 Home Premium installed on a OCZ SSD. (I know, OCZ sucks, right!?) Aeon Nox is the skin I use, and most menu transitions are pretty smooth right now, except one thing. When I am in my music library, navigating through any artists' albums, and I exit out to view all the artists again, it takes almost 5 seconds before the artists appear. It's a fairly large music collection, but so is my movie collection, which doesn't have this problem. Maybe this won't happen with a beefier CPU, and I can use the coveted Aeon MQ3 skin?? We do occasionally surf the web, which is pretty painful on the Revo. I imagine this won't be the case with the 3500.
I plan on using Windows 7 home premium 64 bit, and running XBMC Eden, Couch Potato, Sick Beard, and SAB under the Windows install. Besides YouTube as a video add-on in XBMC, we don't really stream any online content at all. The Movies, TV Shows, and Music all sit in a Unraid box (which used to be my office desktop Dell Vostro 220). Everything is connected via cat5e and 100MB switches. I would like to eventually figure out game emulation to play some old school Atari and Nintendo games. Your build (which I've tweaked just a bit) will cost me $281, including $28 for Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600 RAM, and $25 for iPazzPort KP-810 wireless keyboard/mouse. Will the RAM work well with the motherboard you linked to in the first post? I also swapped out the MI-008 for the MI-100 case. This case will still hold everything, right? I am going to put the stock HDD back into the Revo before I sell it, and use the OCZ SSD in this new build. I already have a remote and IR receiver that I like.
Here is a link to my public Amazon wish list. Did I forget anything?
I have a client that will pay me $250 for the Revo, so I think I'm finally ready to take the plunge and build my own HTPC. I just hate to fork out $100 for a W7 license!!
Just a couple more questions:
If I don't care about WiFi, and I have a HD Homerun, so I won't need a internal TV tuner--is there any reason to go for the micro ATX build vs this mini ITX? Also, the look or size difference between mini-ITX & micro-ATX don't matter much, as all my A/V components are tucked out of sight in a coat closet.
Thanks in advance for any help!!
Matt
Will the A6-3500 be able to do SABnzbd extractions without affecting playback? Right now, this is the only thing I don't like about my Acer Revo 3610. I have to schedule SAB to only run while we are sleeping, so we don't have to put up with buffering/stuttering every time SAB does it's UNRAR stuff, and while Sickbeard and Couch Potato do post-processing. I use XBMC Eden under W7 Home Premium installed on a OCZ SSD. (I know, OCZ sucks, right!?) Aeon Nox is the skin I use, and most menu transitions are pretty smooth right now, except one thing. When I am in my music library, navigating through any artists' albums, and I exit out to view all the artists again, it takes almost 5 seconds before the artists appear. It's a fairly large music collection, but so is my movie collection, which doesn't have this problem. Maybe this won't happen with a beefier CPU, and I can use the coveted Aeon MQ3 skin?? We do occasionally surf the web, which is pretty painful on the Revo. I imagine this won't be the case with the 3500.
I plan on using Windows 7 home premium 64 bit, and running XBMC Eden, Couch Potato, Sick Beard, and SAB under the Windows install. Besides YouTube as a video add-on in XBMC, we don't really stream any online content at all. The Movies, TV Shows, and Music all sit in a Unraid box (which used to be my office desktop Dell Vostro 220). Everything is connected via cat5e and 100MB switches. I would like to eventually figure out game emulation to play some old school Atari and Nintendo games. Your build (which I've tweaked just a bit) will cost me $281, including $28 for Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600 RAM, and $25 for iPazzPort KP-810 wireless keyboard/mouse. Will the RAM work well with the motherboard you linked to in the first post? I also swapped out the MI-008 for the MI-100 case. This case will still hold everything, right? I am going to put the stock HDD back into the Revo before I sell it, and use the OCZ SSD in this new build. I already have a remote and IR receiver that I like.
Here is a link to my public Amazon wish list. Did I forget anything?
I have a client that will pay me $250 for the Revo, so I think I'm finally ready to take the plunge and build my own HTPC. I just hate to fork out $100 for a W7 license!!
Just a couple more questions:
If I don't care about WiFi, and I have a HD Homerun, so I won't need a internal TV tuner--is there any reason to go for the micro ATX build vs this mini ITX? Also, the look or size difference between mini-ITX & micro-ATX don't matter much, as all my A/V components are tucked out of sight in a coat closet.
Thanks in advance for any help!!
Matt