Home Theater PC Building - A HotHardware How-To

[firelert]

nice but i would just stick with a atom or a seperon cheaper and the atom tends to be passively cooled so no noise and i would also use a wd green drive as they are great for this sort of thing as they spin down when not being used.

[djEvilDude]

Price? (for theVidaBox setup)

[Slugg0matic]

Nice but I don't get the need for that much power, unless it's all about gaming. I've got a mATX board, HD3450 HDMI card, AMD 4050e 45W CPU, 3 gigs of DDR2, Vista 32 bit, 250W PSU and a few other trinkets and it runs 1080P like butter. I can't play ultra modern games, but for older games like CS:S, FarCry, HL2 it does very well. I'm not a big gamer so I guess that's why this guy built such a balls out rig.

[webleotube]

hi from argentina!! i want to know. is it enough power (220w in the Thermaltake Element Q) for a i5 and a GPU and all the thing u put in the mini-itx? thank for ansewer

[TylertheGeek28]

I wish u would have shown a little TV recording but either way good vid

I subscribed

[icguilty]

Baronstone of cours it matter? n too much. thew chipset brands are to different.

[jhcenturionespejel]

battlefield bad company 2 on that pc?? i want that computer

[Oosen99]

why did you use a power drill.....

[HotHardwareVids]

@Oosen99 - Just to piss you off? :)

[Oosen99]

@HotHardwareVids guess so?

[tiggerjayeward]

@HotHardwareVids lol

[muiscnight]

@HotHardwareVids lolol

[TylertheGeek28]

@Oosen99 so its a little easier, as long as u don't drill the hell out of the screw or the board u would be fine beats having to stick the screw in then trying to get the screw driver in with out knocking the screw out of the hole

[210482fmj]

how does pc dvd bluray play back compare to dedicated seperate external bluray players. Will a dedicated bluray player provide better picture than a pc player

[icguilty]

also with amd platform u have usb3 n sata 3 natively into the main chipset, with intel u have third parties chipset.

[Baronstone]

@icguilty Does it really matter which companoes name is on the chipset chip? Nope, I didnt think so!

[vcpd0523]

who what is the cost to build one of them. Its seems so worth it though.

[vcpd0523]

wow i want one. All in one for everything.

[psychopurple]

While they would be extraordinarily nice to have in my living room, they are pretty high standard pieces of kit. If I was going to plan on using it for gaming too I'd just built an all out gaming rig, i7 930 with 6Gb DDR3 16000 2000Mhz and a 2024Mb GeForce 460 on a Rampage III motherboard for a grand.

[Freddie1980]

Nice video however you could have at least mentioned that if you combine a TV tuner card with a HTPC & Media Centre (or media Portal) you can watch and record television on your PC as well.

Personally if your not going to use a TV tuner then there's not point in a HTPC.

[stream860]

i didn't find ur video first because of your TAG its HTPC not HTCP :)

[HotHardwareVids]

@stream860 doh! I hate when that happens. Fat finger typo. Fixed and thanks for the heads up.

[thereddog223]

its called buy a i5 750.

[elfettucine]

Thanks for this video.

I'm inspired to build my own HTPC!

[TearsOfWar1]

using an electric drill is not a good thing to do, so it is not recommended. Other than that nice builds.

[thereddog223]

Yeah same here always by hand.

[Agownsrs2]

I wouldn't use electric drills on a mobo....

[chris112007]

nice vid

[karlssonm]

what interst me is bitcorrekt sound from bluray

do i get that with these new stuff?

[removesstains]

I agree with everyone else, both those setups are overkill. I have 2 HTPC's my self. One has a dual core 2.6 cpu and G9300 GPU and the other has a Atom N330 and ION GPU. Both run at around 5-15% cpu usage during 1080p playback on XBMC using VDPAU acceleration under Linux. Also after owning a HTPC for a couple months. you realize it was pointless to put a huge HDD in them cause you'll decide to build a Media Server anyway.

[HotHardwareVids]

Appreciate the feedback but you do know that the Core i5 is a dual core processor with integrated graphics, right? Also, again, the systems we set were configured to be able to run 3D gaming as well. The Core i5 runs with an 87W TDP and that includes its graphics core. It's actually very power efficient.

[eldaguinio]

you will not need a high end pc.. there's onlive!! +_+

[r2stik]

1. 350W max!

2. DFI LanParty JR 790GX-M3H5

3. 2x2GBddr3-1066!

4. Phenom™ II 965/955 + Scythe Big Shuriken

5. BR

6. 1-2T hdd

[bman2700000]

Dude that HTPC practicly pwns my gaming pc?...thats just wrong.

[Exestenz]

goddam technology making me buy new stuff every 2 years XD

[Vagmonster666]

nice builds, bit overkill. for the savy people go with amd 780g motherboards they have integrated ati 3200 supporting 1080p playback

[firefighter1811]

great build. what was the total cost for each system?

[hord]

Bit of an overkill for power for a HTPC?

[iphoneAppReviewHD]

first!