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looks good to me!
u may want to start with the stock INTEL cooler and see if its quiet enough for you,
then your htpc case choice,
its about taste so, yeah theres lower priced cases
but if u like that one, its all good.
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I've ended up going for:
Item: Intel Core i3 2120 3.3GHz Socket 1155 3MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Item: XFX HD 6450 1GB DDR3 DVI HDMI Low Profile Graphics Card
Item: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English
Item: Antec NSK 2480 MATX Desktop Case With 380W EarthWatts PSU
Item: KeySonic 2.4Ghz Wireless Keyboard with Integrated TouchPad - USB
Item: Kingston 64GB SSDNOW V100 - SATA-II 2.5" - Read 250MB/s Write 145MB/s
Item: Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 Intel H61 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio mATX Motherboard
Item: Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333MHz i5 Memory Kit Non-ECC CL9 1.5V
Also bought a Harmony One to drive XBMC and also fed up of currently having 4 remotes.
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2011-12-01, 00:24
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-01, 00:49 by Mallet21.)
Good choice on the processor upgrade...for some reason Intel charges a higher premium for their (t) processors even though power consumption under load (1080p decode) is damn near identical.
Main HTPC:
Intel e4600 + AMD HD5450 + Antec NSK2480B case + 4gb ddr2 + Earthwatts 430 + 1.5tb Seagate 7200 + XBMC Rapier Qualar Mod Skin + Win7
Office HTPC/Ripper/Server:
AMD x4 635 + GT220 + Antec 300 case + 4gbddr3 + OCZ ModXStream 500 psu + 3x2tb WD green drives + Win7
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Yeah I'd been reading about the power consumption underload and idling and the performance hit was too much to justify the marginally lower running costs.
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If you are using a dedicated GFX card wouldn't the processor be utilized less since the GFX is doing the work for decoding the content?
HTPC(s): All running LibreELEC
- AMD 2200G APU on Gigabyte AB350N-Gaming WIFI-CF
- RPI3 x2 | RPI2 x2
NAS: FreeNAS (Latest Stable) | NFS/CIFS
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Well I'm over the moon with my build. I'll get some pics up over the weekend.
My only issue is to do with dts-hd. When playing a 25gb ripped bluray I've got WMC sending the correct signal to my amp and the amp displays that it's outputting dts-hd mstr. So I know my setup is in principle working correctly.
However when I look to compress the film using Ripbot264 it doesn't matter if I select core or flac for the audio and pass thru when I play the resultant .mkv in MPC it doesn't output the dts-hd and I get no pretty lights on my receiver. How can I fix this? Do I need to remux the original audio stream into my new mkv? Any guides on this as it's all new territory to me.
Secondly I can't get WM7 to play any mkv's. It see's them but crashes when I click play. I've installed a registry addition but still no joy.
Any help?
My plan for tonight is to try and get XBMC sending dts-hd to the receiver.
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Thats what has me stumped. I have selected the xx copy stream option under audio and used both FLAC and CORE when importing. Neither get outputed to my amp.
I've got the 64bit version of the shark007 codecs installed and it still doesn't work.