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[whyhellothere]

depending on the price, i'd personally go with a Celeron G530 & a cheap H61 board. The E-350 is so

imo & the HD graphics in the G530 are supposedly good enough to do everything besides gaming.

 

[zk1mpls]

Got a revised list. My friends are telling me to go the itx route. Got a little misguided at first, I guess.

Chassis/PSU:  Thermaltake TT (VL52021N2U) Element Q Mini ITX

Mobo/APU: m-itx Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3



SSD: OCZ Agility 3 60GB SATA3 Solid State Drive

RAM:  Patriot 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM

WLAN: D-Link (DWA 525) Wifi PCI LAN Adapter

KB: Logitech K400 Wireless Keyboard

 

[zk1mpls]

Got a revised list. My friends are telling me to go the itx route. Got a little misguided at first, I guess.

Chassis/PSU:  Thermaltake TT (VL52021N2U) Element Q Mini ITX

Mobo/APU: m-itx Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3



SSD: OCZ Agility 3 60GB SATA3 Solid State Drive

RAM:  Patriot 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM

WLAN: D-Link (DWA 525) Wifi PCI LAN Adapter

KB: Logitech K400 Wireless Keyboard

 

[zk1mpls]

My Inno3D GTX 560 Ti has been acting up really weird lately. It averages around 50C on idle with the Gelid Icy Vision Rev. 2 cooler on. It randomly goes up to 82C on idle sometimes, too.

I think I've gotten a bad card right from the start. The card won't overclock well (really unstable). Only reason I bought the Icy Vision for it was because the stock cooler sucked #$%@ (it was effective for a while, though). I've remounted the thing four times already. Don't really know what's going on with it. Really pissed off my evening. Part of me wants to throw it away already.... or run it over.

 

[zk1mpls]

My Inno3D GTX 560 Ti has been acting up really weird lately. It averages around 50C on idle with the Gelid Icy Vision Rev. 2 cooler on. It randomly goes up to 82C on idle sometimes, too.

I think I've gotten a bad card right from the start. The card won't overclock well (really unstable). Only reason I bought the Icy Vision for it was because the stock cooler sucked #$%@ (it was effective for a while, though). I've remounted the thing four times already. Don't really know what's going on with it. Really pissed off my evening. Part of me wants to throw it away already.... or run it over.

 

[zk1mpls]

In other news, finished my dad's HTPC-sized desktop PC. Spent about $25-30 less than expected. 

The HTPC looks like food for my other tower.

Man, the difference an SSD makes (even if this one is only a SATA II one) 

. Can't wait to get my Crucial M4 128GB this weekend.

 

[zk1mpls]

In other news, finished my dad's HTPC-sized desktop PC. Spent about $25-30 less than expected. 

The HTPC looks like food for my other tower.

Man, the difference an SSD makes (even if this one is only a SATA II one) 

. Can't wait to get my Crucial M4 128GB this weekend.

 

[zk1mpls]

I forgot to mention that my card has been running on stock clocks ever since it sucked at overclocking. Why bother, right?

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

I can't get my cd rom drive to open.. its just a pain..

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

I can't get my cd rom drive to open.. its just a pain..

 

[zk1mpls]

^ Have you tried using the paperclip method of opening the drive?

If it doesn't work... at least ODDs are much cheaper these days ( <$20 ). I remember the last time I bought a ODD was around 2000-2001. Them things were 10x as expensive!

 

[zk1mpls]

^ Have you tried using the paperclip method of opening the drive?

If it doesn't work... at least ODDs are much cheaper these days ( <$20 ). I remember the last time I bought a ODD was around 2000-2001. Them things were 10x as expensive!

 

[goldenchild9]

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

 

[goldenchild9]

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

 

[mp3911]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

 

[mp3911]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

 

[whyhellothere]

building a htpc would be cheaper
that e-350 is still

. yuck.

 

[whyhellothere]

building a htpc would be cheaper
that e-350 is still

. yuck.

 

[cwrite78]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

not until we get better internet speeds like the japanese.

 

[cwrite78]

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

not until we get better internet speeds like the japanese.

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by mp3911

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

Still not really catching the Internet TV / 3D TV hype these days.

If you want to build an HTPC... check out the Antec ISK series. Wanted that chassis, but it wasn't available locally. So sleek

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by mp3911

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

Still not really catching the Internet TV / 3D TV hype these days.

If you want to build an HTPC... check out the Antec ISK series. Wanted that chassis, but it wasn't available locally. So sleek

 

[cwrite78]

Originally Posted by mp3911

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.



Thats the future right there.



F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

negative. the problem with pc components is that something new comes out every month.

upgrading a pc would be a pain in the %+#.

htpc is easier.

 

[cwrite78]

Originally Posted by mp3911

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.



Thats the future right there.



F a cable box.

Nah, the future is having the components inside your TV.

negative. the problem with pc components is that something new comes out every month.

upgrading a pc would be a pain in the %+#.

htpc is easier.

 

[zk1mpls]

Originally Posted by CWrite78

Originally Posted by goldenchild9

My next project is to build an HTPC.

Thats the future right there.

F a cable box.

not until we get better internet speeds like the japanese.

you mean koreans.

On the brighter side, ya'll got 4x better internet than over here... at a fraction of the cost, too.