How To Build An HTPC 'Home Theatre PC'

[joshbulldog1661]

2:12 nerd-gasm

[ErezAvital]

stop hating people. some of us use our "HTPC" as a main system too, and dont want a big ugly PC case. if it was a secondary system just for watching movies and websurfing etc it wouldn't make any sense. but sine we want a real all in one solution, a gaming HTPC maybe a diffecult project, but it makes a lot of sense, to some. just because it doesn't to you, doesn't make it stupid.

[Velocityrapor]

Wooow - you can watch a 2 hour movie in 10 seconds now ! :-)

The terms "overkill" and "wasting energy" don´t mean anything to some people as it seems...

[WaitThatWasntFunny]

oh i love looking at the sides of motherboards. #lol

[jovetoxlock]

i like the motherboard,,,

[SimpleFire100]

I just got this MB for my future build will upload a video on it soon..^^

1 ASUS E35M1-I DELUXE AMD ZACATE MINI-ITX

1 ANTEC ISK 100 DESKTOP SLIMLINE 80W MINI ITX

1 CORSAIR 4GB DDR3 XMS3 INTEL I3/I5/I7 1333MHZ (1X4GB)

1 SEAGATE MOMENTUS 7200.4 2.5" 250GB 7200RPM SATA/300

1 ZALMAN FANMATE 2 FAN SPEED CONTROLLER

Going for total fan less silent build, if i cant run it silent ill use the case fan 100MM only

items are ordred and on the way ,. Yay

[jr540123]

and i used to think 1mb cache was big [all of my computers where designed for windows 98 thats why i thought it was so big

[kokfah]

blah blah blah... BORING~~ another all talks

[workensmart]

those caviar green drives are terrible for gaming. the only good thing about them is that they run very cool. I would have used atleast a caviar blue for the main drive and the green for the media drive. The caviar blacks run too hot for most HTPC cases.

[kaiba1977]

it's 12mb cache not 12mb caaaaaaaaaache

[moses762]

blows load at 2:14

[blazeryin]

Great video tutorial! Good clear voice and speaking slowly enough so its easy to understand what's going on. Thanks.

[Max1636]

Yeah that case is nice I knew it would be expensive though $600+ Australian.

[Ninjaboyz128]

Ur a nerd if the side of a motherboard turns u on. Faggot

[kreepyderk]

another good router is linksys

[viralinfection87]

ewwwwwwwwwwww green power hdd they suck for gamming i should know i own one :( however i understand why hes building something speedy guys its an AIO media pc thats why gamming watching movies watching tv

[Shaudh]

Although I love the hard drives, the only downside with those are the fact that they run at 5400RPMs.. Especially when working with video I want 7200RPM+.

[Jerry4050]

I dont really like the case it looks like a microwave

[RoughedUP1]

I think of a HTPC as something small it is meant to take the place of all those items (dvd, vhs, tevo, etc) not to fill the room that they used

[mohsun123]

that is a gaming rig. it is not really a htpc. 750 watts? my hptc pulls on 400watts and has a 9800gt for 3d and blu ray playback. u have wasted to much money on powerful components which you will never use in a real htpc situation.

[flightsimx65]

I had a belkin network card and 2 years after that it quit working

[lsdmolelekki]

that looks like my aints new microwave!!! lol!!! and my mom sais my pc looks like a glorified toaster!!! lol misguided isnt she?

[MMODude09]

woo thats my memory :)

[southparkgtaca]

I thought it was a microwave. lol

[techkid100]

@southparkgtaca Same,

[BangBlocksDvD]

bit extravagant but nice

[battleforwaterloo]

kinda funny how he tells you to research your pc components before you buy, yet doesn't seem to know the specifics of the components he'll putting in.

I'm looking to build an HTPC but won't be spending more than $400. I'd rather have a quiet PC playing and recording my video than a vacuum.

[legendray2008]

All that for HTPC >> r u insane ??

[michaelmorr11]

yeah you are right, he concentrates so much on the gaming aspects, that he forgets that to get Dolby HD or DTS mastering HD He either needs the Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 or an ATI 5xxx series card

There is more to HD than the video, the audio needs researched as well!!!

[agntroboy1995]

i spy an intellimouse 3.0 :D good choice :)

[Testingpointer1]

yeah i believe this is really an overkill motherboard..

cmon' x48 for htpc?

its on of the best for ddr2 memory type gaming motherboard!!!!!!

[deluxedookie]

still a pc might want to put real games in that with out having to get long wires or move your pc.

[AxLstyle]

green hdd from wd are not a very good idea for a computer built for power...they only go up to 5400 rpm...better getting some normal ones and making the computer go into sleep automaticaly

[turbogtx]

HTPC?! Are you Kidding me? Thats a Freakin Video Editing Rig. haha.

[ghostaliaz]

Cool Video & really cool HTPC set-up. I am going to do a search for this guys show on google because I like this video.

[ryanjackwhitt123]

this guy is quite funny tbh

[cardboardsnail]

That mobo is overkill xD

[Refanius]

This build is complete overkill for an HTPC. This might as well be a gaming PC built inside an HTPC case.

No way you need a quad core. Just buy an e5200(dual core), and save yourself about $200. Also, no need to buy a separate video card.. there are mainboards with onboard HDMI for a lot less.

That being said, 2TB is awesome, and I wish I could get a tv tuner like that one.

[2point6x4]

HTPC? a PS3 will Play blu-ray and Games for $400. : )

[sammywammy8]

yes but will you be able to play regular movies (dvd's)

and you have like 80 GB of HDD space

with an HTPC u can go up above 2 TB

[meadish]

For 299 USD (excl. hard drives), get a Popcorn Hour C200. Choose between installing a BluRay player or a 3.5" hard drive in the front bay. Internally there's a bay for a 2.5" hard drive and a USB connector for BluRay live. This is not counting USB connected external hard drives - nor LAN, enabling you to stream from every device (computer, NAS, other network media player, Squeezebox) in your LAN. Easy to use out of the box and massive tweaking options, great user community.

[maniax786]

are biostar motherboards any good??

[bimmermann18]

yes they are. I've bought the 790FX and the X58 and they worked without any flaws

[joseanzaldua]

Shouldve used a dual slot cooler cuz it expels out the back

[Badie05x]

Nice HTPC there :D

[vois]

good video, can you go into depth on how its actually made maybe?

[MrNightro]

hmmmmm, heatsink memory....

LOL. Good stuff

[mongballs]

Great video, i'm currently specing up a computer with the same case, but you didn't provide us with an after build review, eg noise and performance and heat especially with a case like that.

[N1mro8]

I agree with the most comments, but!!...He is only talking about the basic things that you will need to build an HTPC. So you can configure your own, i think that was the message of this vid. And some advertisign though :P

[mrjspeed]

yeah, this isn't the best grouping. Why talk about "green" hard drives when the CPU and GPU use more than 10 times the power.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

what u did is make a high end pc with a htpc case thats kinda stupid

[techin4]

@CRAKIZGOOD Hi, actually its not stupid. Have you tried building an htpc with an atom cpu then tried watching blue ray movies? If not, then try it. see what happens.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@techin4

to watch a blue ray movie all u need is a 2.54 ghz duel core

i had a Pentium almost as fast as a 330 atom with a low end 4 series gpu i coudnt find 1 blu ray file the gpu didnt run on (ripped VC1 MPEG etc)

all my blue ray files left my cpu with 5 % load using MPC-HC

cant wait for the low end G104 it can play ANY kind of file including high bitrate AVI files and if u ONLY run bluray files from the bluray discs its self

a small form factor atom with a 9400 is more than enough

[shuffle953]

@CRAKIZGOOD he did say at the start its like a little gaming rig replacing ur ps3 xbox and wii :D

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@shuffle953

nothing can replace a wii :)

+ if u want to replace a console look at what i built

/watch?v=IXOl7TKVwLM

[shuffle953]

@CRAKIZGOOD lol ur right xD and nice pc but a 4850????

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@shuffle953

well yeah its the shortest thing that could fit there

if a 460 is as long as a 4850 then go ahead

[shuffle953]

@CRAKIZGOOD ok then :D 2 GTX 460's can be faster than 2 5870's

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@shuffle953 well yeah they are go look at the review hard made 2 weeks ago

[Avataryoutuification]

@shuffle953 What? No. Two gtx 460s can be faster than 2 hd 5850s... it is close to two hd 5870s however.

[shuffle953]

@Avataryoutuification thats where your wrong look at benchmark scores and stuff 2 gtx 460's are more stable then 2 5870's thats y the gtx 460 beats them 2

[Avataryoutuification]

@CRAKIZGOOD Why is it stupid? Some people want to play games which are hardware demanding on their htpcs like bad company 2, crysis and what not.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@Avataryoutuification

well home theater pc is made normally for people who watch HD content etc

he should change the name to HTPC/gaming pc

this vid is old at that time u either make a gaming pc or htpc

but today u can make a small pc with enough power to run crysis and watch 3d movies whisper quite

[Alexboooom]

@CRAKIZGOOD what do u think an HTPC is and can do??? it's a horizontal PC and has no difference than a vertical standing PC...so...YES...tha case makes the difference

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@Alexboooom

hmm lets see

since HTPC stands for home theater pc

i guess it must act like one

silent fans normally one

which means its an issue when running a high end system

and if some one wants a HTPC he invests in components that does the job right

low-med range gpu and a normal duel core

currently new i3-i5 gpus do all that for u

or just a fusion would do most of the work

[Alexboooom]

@CRAKIZGOOD really i don't get what u mean....so there are noisy fans for pc and silent for HTPC? i don't think so...i don't think he chose to have noise...and why to buy less efficient hardware and not a better one? where is the bad thing with it? and i3-i5...3 years ago?? i think this was a proper build up...of course now u can buy sth like ssd....for sure a sata br/hd drive...and the best case u can...at least i will...u need to have a powerful machine to support 1080p without any problems...

[MrPressThat]

@Alexboooom An HTPC is silent, uses less power and is focused on high quality audio and TV.

Thus yes, it is different.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

thats a v expensive pc

for a gpu i would buy a 8800gt since its great for hd playback and games

a normal mobo u dont need a x48

a q6600 and oc to 3.2

[bimmermann18]

how much did this run you up? I guessing $1800 or more. I was thinking of doing the same thing, but more towards an entertainment HTPC.