Remember, that drive only spins at 5400 rpm, but it shouldn`t be a problem.
Fair, but I never realized the difference between hard drives with different spin rates. Its only HDDs and SSDs that the difference is like night and day
ADVICE PLEASE? What to replace my HTPC with? (Does anyone make what I describe??!!)
I have a 70" Sharp Aquos, an Assassin HTPC, HDHomeRun 3ch Tuner, COX HD chip, and Onkyo TXNR-509 Surround Sound Receiver. I've enjoyed the set-up immensely EXCEPT for the Windows 7 aspects and overall complexity of...
Hey all,
After screwing around with a raspberry pi for a few weeks (read: wasting time), I've decided to take the easier route out and build a windows-based box. I was wondering if you guys might have some advice, as I've never built an htpc box before.
Looking for:
- setup capable of 1080p...
Basically I know virtually NOTHING about video cards. Last time I got one it refused to work in my computer (an Old Dell).
Basically I want to be able to decode 1080p (and do re-encoding, not necessarily 1080p) without my computer bogging down. And I want to stream to my Xbox with subtitles,...
I've been wanting to build up a media center PC for a while now and a buddy just gave me a GeForce 8800 GTS video card. It's got two DVI ports and is PCIe 16x (I think).
So I'm looking for advice:
Is this card adequite?
Can someone recommend a mobo and processor (cheap but reliable)
And...
I'm considering building a home theatre pc that will replace my dvd player and freeview recorder currently hooked up my TV.
The problem is I'm not sure exactly how powerful it needs to be.
Like I said it will be used as a dvd player (potentially Blu-ray) browsing the net and recording tv...