I'm into building a HTPC (Home Theater PC) to go with the rest of my HT setup. The thing needs to be:
-as quite as possible
-desk top chassi based
-good at displaying dvd material
-reasonably fast (so I can use it for playing Q3 when I'm out of DVDs)
Money isn't that important, althoug i prefer cheap before expensive!!!
It would also be good if it would be possible to get the parts in sweden although I guess I can handle it anyway otherways...
What I've found so far is that it's pretty hard to find a nice-looking desktop-case. This one is by far the best yet - it's good looking and not huge. Another good thing is that it's cheap and esy to get for me...
http://www.yeongyang.com/products/yya102.htm I gusess I't needs some work to get quiter, but that I can take...
That would force me into the rather unpleasing MATX MoBo market though. I'd like to go with someting else than a PC133-based platform, but I can't find any. Also I prefer AMD processors, but the only AMD based MATX MoBo I found is the K7SEM (http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSUSA/WWW.ECS.COM.TW/PRODUCTS/K7SEM.HTM#GUIDE3) which cant't be bought in Sweden - also it doesn't seem to impressing performance-wise.
Also I'm wondering what grapcics card to use - I'd like to use a fast one, but i don't like the idea of another noicy fan...
/Peo
Signaturer suger...<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by peoe on 11/21/01 02:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
-as quite as possible
-desk top chassi based
-good at displaying dvd material
-reasonably fast (so I can use it for playing Q3 when I'm out of DVDs)
Money isn't that important, althoug i prefer cheap before expensive!!!
It would also be good if it would be possible to get the parts in sweden although I guess I can handle it anyway otherways...
What I've found so far is that it's pretty hard to find a nice-looking desktop-case. This one is by far the best yet - it's good looking and not huge. Another good thing is that it's cheap and esy to get for me...
http://www.yeongyang.com/products/yya102.htm I gusess I't needs some work to get quiter, but that I can take...
That would force me into the rather unpleasing MATX MoBo market though. I'd like to go with someting else than a PC133-based platform, but I can't find any. Also I prefer AMD processors, but the only AMD based MATX MoBo I found is the K7SEM (http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSUSA/WWW.ECS.COM.TW/PRODUCTS/K7SEM.HTM#GUIDE3) which cant't be bought in Sweden - also it doesn't seem to impressing performance-wise.
Also I'm wondering what grapcics card to use - I'd like to use a fast one, but i don't like the idea of another noicy fan...
/Peo
Signaturer suger...<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by peoe on 11/21/01 02:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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