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Building a Quiet Media Room PC

Posted by Zonk on from the you-have-nothing-else-to-do-today-right dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech just come out with a new Media Center PC build-it project. This one takes advantage of Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Rollup 2 and uses a fanless graphics card, four tuners--two standard TV and two HDTV, the Creative Labs DTS-610, which lets you bypass some DRM, and a good-looking SilverStone LaScala chassis that fits in your media rack. The new system is way more versatile, and maybe more importantly, a lot quieter than any previous media PC DIY boxes. One drawback: We're still waiting for the cable and satellite companies to get it together on CableCard, so the system has to do without."

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  1. Poor Thing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    [blockquote]...fanless graphics card...[/blockquote]

    It must be so lonely.

  2. Re:Just wait until January by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    But wait, I thought MS copied everything from Apple, not visa-versa?

  3. The geek way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nehemia 1GHz Mini ITX
    1GB RAM
    Nvidia Card (any one)
    Gnu/Linux (Debian Sarge)
    Limp 1.2
    gmplayer + glame + libdcss

    Cost - 300
    Setup time 2 hours
    Noise - none (totally silent if you heatsing the card to the case)
    Power use - about 12 Watts

    nb please don't mod this up it only rewards the lazy asses who don't browse for actual content at 0 instead of the hivemind popularity contest

  4. Huh? by Chaffar · · Score: 4, Funny
    This one takes advantage of Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Rollup 2.

    Someone please define advantage :-\

  5. who would have thought .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. that you CAN build a fully functional media center for 2500$.

    coming up next: build your own fully functional house for 1,000,000$.

  6. Re:Just wait until January by aaron_ds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great. Now we'll have one-button remote zealots too!