86waterpumper
Senior member
I plan to finally put together a htpc
computer parts seem powerful and cheap enough that the time is right.
here is what I have so far, nmedia 6000b case, a rosewill 400 watt psu. Probably isn't 80 percent efficient but It was free and it would take awhile to save 50 bucks worth of elec. I have 4gb of 1333 kingston ram, owc 40gb mercury ssd (boot drive) and a 500gb samsung f3. I went with a 5200 athlon x2 oem chip which is 2.3ghz I think and dual core.(65w) It has less L2 cache than the regors, but the hardest duty this thing will have will be 1080p flash, no encoding or 3dgaming. For motherboard I went with a biostar a880g since it had 4250 onboard and hdmi out. I have the stock heatsink from a 965be cpu, I am not worried about high end audio so onboard is fine, basically I have everything I need except a remote, and a tv card.
I was looking at the hauppage 1250, it's 55 bucks and comes with a remote. I will be running win media center, and maybe boxee or xbmc. Is this a good tuner to use or should I be looking at another? I guess if I wanted in the future to get a antenna to do over the air hd feeds I would need a dual tuner instead? Most of those get up there around 100 bucks I am trying to not spend that. I have heard some say the hauppage cards rock and others say the drivers and software for them aren't the best for win 7 64 bit? If anyone has other in the same price range that are better let me know! As for the remote, do I need a ir blaster or anything for it to work with the computer or will it come with the package?
One other thing I know some have said that the stock phenom II fans are loud when the heat gets up there. I plan to not overclock, I even hope can undervolt some. At any rate, will this heatsink be quiet enough to use if I can keep the heat down? If not I will get something else obviously it would have to be pretty low profile like a scythe or something.
computer parts seem powerful and cheap enough that the time is right.
here is what I have so far, nmedia 6000b case, a rosewill 400 watt psu. Probably isn't 80 percent efficient but It was free and it would take awhile to save 50 bucks worth of elec. I have 4gb of 1333 kingston ram, owc 40gb mercury ssd (boot drive) and a 500gb samsung f3. I went with a 5200 athlon x2 oem chip which is 2.3ghz I think and dual core.(65w) It has less L2 cache than the regors, but the hardest duty this thing will have will be 1080p flash, no encoding or 3dgaming. For motherboard I went with a biostar a880g since it had 4250 onboard and hdmi out. I have the stock heatsink from a 965be cpu, I am not worried about high end audio so onboard is fine, basically I have everything I need except a remote, and a tv card.
I was looking at the hauppage 1250, it's 55 bucks and comes with a remote. I will be running win media center, and maybe boxee or xbmc. Is this a good tuner to use or should I be looking at another? I guess if I wanted in the future to get a antenna to do over the air hd feeds I would need a dual tuner instead? Most of those get up there around 100 bucks I am trying to not spend that. I have heard some say the hauppage cards rock and others say the drivers and software for them aren't the best for win 7 64 bit? If anyone has other in the same price range that are better let me know! As for the remote, do I need a ir blaster or anything for it to work with the computer or will it come with the package?
One other thing I know some have said that the stock phenom II fans are loud when the heat gets up there. I plan to not overclock, I even hope can undervolt some. At any rate, will this heatsink be quiet enough to use if I can keep the heat down? If not I will get something else obviously it would have to be pretty low profile like a scythe or something.
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