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See, this is much better than builds #1 and #2 and it costs less.
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2013-06-12, 18:10
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-12, 18:10 by Kaeon.)
Anyone running this system yet? Thinking of this and using Ubuntu TV.
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2013-06-30, 00:53
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-30, 16:55 by mmatforum.)
Which version of OpenELEC would you install on this? Intel build?
Also, has anyone actually bought this and installed OpenElec on it?
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2013-07-11, 13:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-07-11, 13:59 by nilsbraden.)
Hi folks,
what I am really missing with these HTPC-Builds is any information about the noise of the devices. I bought the Acer Veriton and was quite astonished to hear it quite loudly when beeing in the same room 4m away. In a movie you can even hear it when people talk. I'ts not about pressing your ear against the device, you can hardly NOT notice the sound.
I tried to find a silent device but most descriptions even on distributors or manufacturers homepages lack information about if and how many fans are working inside a box. Take the Intel NUC for example, most descriptions state it is "small" and "silent" and so on but there is a fan ("active fan heatsink") working inside. edit: Now that I started searching for it I found several descriptions of how "silent" the NUC is. It is not. Far from silent when the fan kicks in, else quite silent. Wel...
TL;DR: I want something silent. This Acer box cannot be opened or I didn't find out how. Can I open it w/o voiding the warranty? I would like to remove the HD to see how much of the noise actually comes from the fan since I don't need much space for openelec and SD or SSD would do for me. The whole lot of Zotac ZBOXes also contains fans and I can only guess how loud they are. Building my own HTPC wasn't planned and will probably be much more expensive but I fail to see how I can avoid it :/
@mmatforum: Yes I installed Openelec and I used the Generic-Build. It contains a prepare-skript with which you can format an USB-Device to boot the machine. Then you are asked if you want the Live-Mode or install locally, I went with locall installation which worked flawlessly and after about 5 minutes I had a running Openelec box. The Bluetooth-Adapter wasn't recognized but everything else seemed to work. Didn't test Wifi though.
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I don't think it has built-in bluetooth