Recent content by vineswingman

I have a desk approx 40 feet away from the Entertainment center which houses the TV, audio receiver and currently the HTPC/SteamBox. Right now the HTPC is hooked up via optical to the receiver and HDMI to the TV. Currently use a wireless mouse, keyboard, and x360 gamepad. Would like to put a...

I have had the same feelings about ATI, my previous laptop had a Radeon and I always was fighting the drivers, especially having overscan issues when outputting to my HDTV. Being that this system is a HTPC, I wanted to go with Nvidia even if I could get a better deal on a Radeon because of my...

I just found this thread: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=187401 Looks like this problem is not going to be easily solved.

I've had this system for about 14 months now and have constantly battled bizarre behavior regarding the graphics. System: - 12GB G.Skill DDR 3 1600 - ASRock P55 EXTREME4 LGA 1156 P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX - 2 x ASUS ENGTX460 DirectCU/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi) 1GB 256-bit -...

http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_spinpoint_f4_review_hd322gj it was cheap and comparatively fast. Haven't benchmarked it yet. Windows Experience Index only gave me a 5.9 for storage, which is surprising for a raid-0 setup, but I don't put much faith in that anyway :) Plus I already have...

OK. I went overkill, and blew my budget. Computer arrived today, I'm using it now. So far, so good! Went with: Asrock p55 Extreme4 mobo 2X 1GB ASUS Geforce GTX 460 (SLI) Core i5 750 4GB DDR3 1600 2X 320GB samsung spinpoint f4 harddrives (raid 0) Antec 750 Watt p/s it's...

Wow, never expected so many replies! Noted. Thank you! I noticed a lot of people recommending a cheap SSD for the OS. I never would have thought to do this in a HTPC, what is the reasoning behind it? I figured going for a single large disk would be the way to go. I will look into that...

I've been trying to narrow down a HTPC build, and I'm not sure which direction I want to go as of yet. My budget is around $650. It's primary use will be gaming. I already have a wireless mouse (logitech anywhere mx) and keyboard (apple wireless). I also have a lian-li alumium case and a 1 TB...