2013-01-11, 21:57
Hi there,
I could now sit down and google another couple of hours but instead I prefer to get some valuable opinions from people who really have a clue and dont want to sell.
My situation: I used to have an Antec Fusion Case with some AMD motherboard and onboard ATI HD 3200 if I remember correctly. Running Mediaportal 1.1.0 with Live-TV but mainly Full HD .MKV playback. I went abroad and eventually left the whole thing in Panama
Now that I am back in Germany since a year and it looks like there wont be a Jailbreak for my Apple TV 3 in the forseeable future I decided to head back to a proper selfmade HTPC.
What I want?
Nice looking small and quiet case (Apple Fan, so thinking Mac MINI style); Without display; optional MCE IR receiver would be great; Not so sure if the iPhone Apps are already good enough to take the whole control or if I will end up buying a Harmony once again
No big internal capacity; I will put the hard disks in some Synology NAS; the HTPC itself should have only some minor Flash storage/SSD for the OS
Bluray/Optical Drive (Slot it?)
Enough power fully enjoy a fluent interaction with the nicest skins and obviously FULL-HD and possibly 1080i Live-TV
What I came up with so far?
I started looking for Cases, because I for me (Design driven), this is the starting point of all HTPCs. I first found read about Wesena (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Wesena-ITX2-B-Blac...B0058HLEBE) and then stumbled over some Thread where people were saying that the successor company is called Streacom (http://www.streacom.com/products/fc8-evo...s-chassis/).
Those kind of cases obviously limit to mini ITX and I have no single experience with those.
Additionally I honestly have no clue of current proper CPU/Chipset preferences; Onboard GPUs and so on; I simply remember, back then the choice mattered big time with one GPU working great and another possibly even never didnt work flawless at all.
I am not religious, no matter if Intel or AMD, Nvidia or ATI, I take what you guys tell me its best
Any thoughts, recommendations, best practices? I am not at all narrow minded regarding the mentioned case; Its just an idea and a design direction I am looking for. Also, are there any known problems with having the Live-TV buffer HD on a NAS? I remember it definitely worked better if it was on another HD but over Network on a NAS?
Many thanks ahead for every hint you give me.
Cheers,
Steffen
I could now sit down and google another couple of hours but instead I prefer to get some valuable opinions from people who really have a clue and dont want to sell.
My situation: I used to have an Antec Fusion Case with some AMD motherboard and onboard ATI HD 3200 if I remember correctly. Running Mediaportal 1.1.0 with Live-TV but mainly Full HD .MKV playback. I went abroad and eventually left the whole thing in Panama
Now that I am back in Germany since a year and it looks like there wont be a Jailbreak for my Apple TV 3 in the forseeable future I decided to head back to a proper selfmade HTPC.
What I want?
Nice looking small and quiet case (Apple Fan, so thinking Mac MINI style); Without display; optional MCE IR receiver would be great; Not so sure if the iPhone Apps are already good enough to take the whole control or if I will end up buying a Harmony once again
No big internal capacity; I will put the hard disks in some Synology NAS; the HTPC itself should have only some minor Flash storage/SSD for the OS
Bluray/Optical Drive (Slot it?)
Enough power fully enjoy a fluent interaction with the nicest skins and obviously FULL-HD and possibly 1080i Live-TV
What I came up with so far?
I started looking for Cases, because I for me (Design driven), this is the starting point of all HTPCs. I first found read about Wesena (e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Wesena-ITX2-B-Blac...B0058HLEBE) and then stumbled over some Thread where people were saying that the successor company is called Streacom (http://www.streacom.com/products/fc8-evo...s-chassis/).
Those kind of cases obviously limit to mini ITX and I have no single experience with those.
Additionally I honestly have no clue of current proper CPU/Chipset preferences; Onboard GPUs and so on; I simply remember, back then the choice mattered big time with one GPU working great and another possibly even never didnt work flawless at all.
I am not religious, no matter if Intel or AMD, Nvidia or ATI, I take what you guys tell me its best
Any thoughts, recommendations, best practices? I am not at all narrow minded regarding the mentioned case; Its just an idea and a design direction I am looking for. Also, are there any known problems with having the Live-TV buffer HD on a NAS? I remember it definitely worked better if it was on another HD but over Network on a NAS?
Many thanks ahead for every hint you give me.
Cheers,
Steffen
