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    New Home Theater PC Build

    Second above notion. Parts that were last posted have been ordered. Should be here Thursday or Friday. I will post on the build once I get it started. For $20 I will take a chance on the wireless dongle. I was just trying to avoid putting a hole in the wall for a T-1. Thanks for all of...
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    New Home Theater PC Build

    Motherboard Intel BOXDH55HC $88.00 Proccessor Intel I3 550 $129.00 Power Supply Antec NEO ECO 520C 520W $40.00 Memory G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 $40.00 Hard...
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    New Home Theater PC Build

    Thanks for the advice. I was kind of curious about the motherboard seeing the same reviews that you saw. I will look into the Intel Boards. I wanted to be sure to have enough PCI slots to put in a video card if I decided down the road to upgrade GPU/CPU.
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    New Home Theater PC Build

    I looked at Silent PC review right away. I haven't checked out the two suggested parts yet. I still plan on getting a TV. Toshiba 40" 3 HDMI input and 60Hz refresh. That is what I am looking at. Everyone says great picture but ok sound, which is fine since I have a stereo to hook this...
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    New Home Theater PC Build

    The 520 looks good. I had thought about a larger drive but was worried about writing to the system drive if I record two channels at once. Maybe I will give this a try. Right now I don't want to buy two hard drives but may in the future. I could throw in 3 more sata drives and had to make...
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    New Home Theater PC Build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. Watching/ripping/buring Bluray DVDs, Watch and record 2 channels of live TV, Convert some family videotapes to DVD, and have always on so I can remote into it from my phone. May do some light gaming but nothing a lower proccessor couldn't handle. May do some...