2014-02-26, 00:19
Hi I'm building a htpc (my first one) for my living room
So far I have used an old Via eden case and an old 200W I-paq mini PSU I had laying about with an E45M1-l delux itx mobo / 4Gig of G.skill Ripjaws ram (picked up on ebay)
its basically a E450 1.6ghz dual core AMD APU (already very mildly OC'd to 1.75ghz) with Radion HD6320 on board .I have mounted in the top blowing onto the 'passive' cooler an old 70mm HP cpu fan i had lying about as its extremely quiet and the mobo can control the speed...I'm going to look about at work to find another to replace the PSU fan which is not noisy but not as silent as the cpu fan..
Os is Win7 ultimate 32bit on a Kingston 2.5" 120Gb SSD and also an old 2.5" Seagate 160gb (for media storage..I'll change it for a 2tb drive when funds allow).
I've also got a cheap keyboard and touch pad combo off of ebay.
so far it looks ok (about the size of a dvd player) runs nice and cool , I've never seen temp above 45C on the asus monitoring software
The whole idea of this is to get a unit for <£200 (once 2tb drive is added) that can monitor my outdoor IP cameras when needed and at other times be used a media center PC...etc..
any way sorry if this is a stupid question but
So far I've got Xbmc Working and have several addons.
Does any one have experience of the on board Radion6320 GPU as I'm finding 1080p sources (files and streaming) look ...soft (for want of a better way of describing it), I have two Acer RV100 media players with 2tb drives and 1080p movies look much crisper on the same tv with the same source file(Panasonic ut30 series plasma), are there any specific codecs I have to add for xbmc or is it you think a characteristic of the GPU.
Also I'm having a few issues with my Panasonic sound bar does any one know if the OB Radion6320 is CEC compatible ..or not.
Also is there a way to change the picture behind the home screen on xbmc I have at the moment the Xbmchub picture of a stadium but i'd like to change it , i suspect there's an add on for it but I don't know what to look for and googles not helping tonight.
thanks for any opinions you can offer and also I'd like to say so far i really like Xbmc.
So far I have used an old Via eden case and an old 200W I-paq mini PSU I had laying about with an E45M1-l delux itx mobo / 4Gig of G.skill Ripjaws ram (picked up on ebay)
its basically a E450 1.6ghz dual core AMD APU (already very mildly OC'd to 1.75ghz) with Radion HD6320 on board .I have mounted in the top blowing onto the 'passive' cooler an old 70mm HP cpu fan i had lying about as its extremely quiet and the mobo can control the speed...I'm going to look about at work to find another to replace the PSU fan which is not noisy but not as silent as the cpu fan..
Os is Win7 ultimate 32bit on a Kingston 2.5" 120Gb SSD and also an old 2.5" Seagate 160gb (for media storage..I'll change it for a 2tb drive when funds allow).
I've also got a cheap keyboard and touch pad combo off of ebay.
so far it looks ok (about the size of a dvd player) runs nice and cool , I've never seen temp above 45C on the asus monitoring software
The whole idea of this is to get a unit for <£200 (once 2tb drive is added) that can monitor my outdoor IP cameras when needed and at other times be used a media center PC...etc..
any way sorry if this is a stupid question but
So far I've got Xbmc Working and have several addons.
Does any one have experience of the on board Radion6320 GPU as I'm finding 1080p sources (files and streaming) look ...soft (for want of a better way of describing it), I have two Acer RV100 media players with 2tb drives and 1080p movies look much crisper on the same tv with the same source file(Panasonic ut30 series plasma), are there any specific codecs I have to add for xbmc or is it you think a characteristic of the GPU.
Also I'm having a few issues with my Panasonic sound bar does any one know if the OB Radion6320 is CEC compatible ..or not.
Also is there a way to change the picture behind the home screen on xbmc I have at the moment the Xbmchub picture of a stadium but i'd like to change it , i suspect there's an add on for it but I don't know what to look for and googles not helping tonight.
thanks for any opinions you can offer and also I'd like to say so far i really like Xbmc.
