How To Build An HTPC 'Home Theatre PC'

This week on CyberShack TV, we took a quick look at Home Theatre PC's. Now we get an insider's guide on the sort of parts we used and why to help you make one from CyberShack's reviewer!

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[southparkgtaca]

I thought it was a microwave. lol

[CRAKIZGOOD]

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

[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...

[MrPressThat]

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

Thus yes, it is different.

[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

[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...

[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 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