Confessions of a Serial HTPC Builder - Part 3. Michael Baggaley applies hard lessons learned during his past attempts to build the ultimate home theater PC. The issue, he says, is to find the right balance between noise, power and style and how much money you...

Confessions of a Serial HTPC Builder - Part 2. Is smaller really better when it comes to building HTPC's?. Is smaller really better when it comes to building HTPC's? Another finely written article...thanks for the info! Covered many pitfalls that I hadn't...

Confessions of a Serial HTPC Builder - Part 1. Michael Baggaley likes to build Home Theater PCs and will be describing a few of his builds for us. Part 1 of this series examines a water-cooled oldie, which was low on decibels but a bit too loud for most non-geeks'...

create extended storage. At least not very easily. If your tuner has a firewire out then you can do it. Check out avsforum.com there HTPC section has a lot of info on it. As far as the artical go's looks great cant wate for part two. Personaly I...

to invest >> more of their personal free time to spec, buy & assemble the system. >> Uh, only if you're a complete retard. >> You can build a system with the parts you want in less time than it > takes to order one, get the item in wrong (3 times...

HTPC builders. The game with home theater is quiet and cool and low power; to that end, you get passively cooled equipment whenever possible and keep the CPU as inactive as possible through the use of hardware acceleration. A high-end HTPC would have...

in 3 years, what's the big deal.. Now that same "professional" "business" (dell's words, not mine) costing $1200 for "professional" "business" class parts SHOULD NOT die in the same 3 year period. That's the rip off part. Support is another rip, you have to...

the reader with information about the best out-of-box solution. The features that you named are community developed and are not included "in the box." While it may have been nice to mention community support, the average Joe HTPC builder won't be looking for...

Noob trying to build budget HTPC. Hello, I'm a noob HTPC builder and wanted to know if these specs would work for an HTPC. I've built PC's in the past, but this HTPC stuff is going over my head. I will be re-using and old PC to complete this build. Your responses...