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

    Someone please define advantage :-\