My Home Cinema setup

[poppe]

HTPC:
- Asus M2NPV-VM
- 2 GB RAM
- Amd X2 4200 EE Stepping
- NVida 8600GT (256MB, passiv)
- FloppyDTV S2
- 2* 500GB (Samsung HD501LJ)
- 1 * 1TB (WD10EACS - power saving - very silient)
- On Board Sound card - SoundMax + SPDIF breakout
- OrigenAE S16V (http://www.origenae.com/en/htpc_s16v.htm)
- BeQuite DarkPower 650W
- MS Remote + Keyboard
- Logitec AirMax

- Windows Vista Home Premium
- PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra
- AC3Filter
- MediaPortal (TVServer + Client) singele seat configuration

TV:
- Sony KDL-46W2000
- 46" Full HD

Receiver:
- Onkyo TX-SR 605
- DTS®-HD Master Audio™, DTS®-HD High-Resolution Audio™, Dolby® True HD™, Dolby® Digital Plus™
- DTS®-ES™ Discrete/Matrix, DTS® Neo:6, DTS® 96/24, Dolby® Digital EX™, Dolby® Pro Logic IIx
- HDMI 1.3 (2xIn, 1xOut)
(http://www.eu.onkyo.com/de/indices/i..._de_42171.html)

Speakers:
- Teufel Theater LT 3 (http://www.teufel.de/de/Heimkino/Theater-LT-3.cfm)

Rack:
- Spectral CR1095 (http://www.spectral.eu/D/corner.html)

Some Pictures of the inside:



I mounted some rubber spaces under the HD cage:





The PC is conntected to the Onkyo via DVI->HDMI for video and via Coax for Sound.
The TV is conntected to the Onkyo via HDMI.

I'm pretty proud of it

[ThaClown]

Very cool, but your pictures is too big please resize to 800x600....

[jburnette]

That's a very nice and clean looking setup.

[ThaClown]

@Poppe:
How do you like your MX Air?
I have one too, but I just cant really seem to get a perfect controll with it....
Especially scrolling movies and TV series is a pain....

[Inker]

Looks really nice, did you do anything special to keep noise down (I see you got an EE model)?

BTW: could have gone a bit bigger on the hdds ;-)

[SiLenTYL]

wow..very nice setup there

try putting ur sub to the left - sounds better =)

and yeh about the EE cpu..hows the heat coming off that thing?

very neat and clean system, capable too


btw..do u have a blu-ray drive in there?

can ur amp pick up full DTS-HD thru analogue from a PC?

[poppe]

@ThaClown
It is a pain using a mouse in MP, I allways use the MCE Remote.

@Inker
- the Graphic card is passiv
- PSU: BeQuite DarkPower 650W - it is really quite
- CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling - Alpine 64 - also really quite - the fan is decoupled from the cooling block so that there are no vibrations.
- I mouted benath the HDD Cage some rubber spacers to take down the vibrations from HDD.

At the moment the HDD are the loudes part - and I will replace them in the future.


@SilenTYL
The CPU is over an year old, it uses 89W. The CPU Cooler and the Case (full aluminium, 0.5 cm thick!) take the heat quietly away. The Case is awesome, I have never seen a case with such a quality! http://www.origenae.com/en/htpc_s16v.htm

There is no HD-DVD or Blue Ray Drive mounted. I will wait until combi Drives will be cheaper (~200€ at the moment).

I connected the HTPC with the Onkyo via SPDIF (Coax) for sound (digital). I don't know if the Onkyo is able to receive DTS-HD via analogue connection.

regards,

Sörnt

[vur]

Poppe,
I note you use an 8600. You may be interested in this quote from a posting of mine on another forum

Another poster said "the ATI AVIO won hands down over nVidia." and I replied






'Gee DA, on the strength of this Avivo vs Purevideo comparison

http://www.hardware.info/en-UK/artic..._DVD_players/1

AND also reading that Purevideo has gone beyond software-only to be optimized using hardware/firmware in the recent nVidia 8400, 8500 and 8600 (but NOT 8800) series of graphics cards,I had been planning on an nVidia8600 used with an app that can use Purevideo. My hope was that somehow LIVE TV can be viewed via Purevideo using one of these cards. Looking to the near future these cards also markedly reduce cpu use with .H264, (but NOT mpeg-2). '

I'd be interested in hearing your opinion.

That is a very smart looking lot of equipment and looks great together.

[poppe]

Hi vur,

the 8600 in combination with a MPEG2 or H.264 Codec that >uses< the hardware acceleration of the gpu does make a huge difference. The CPU has a lot of less to do. I uses the PowerDVD 7.3 Codec wich is known to uses the hardware acceleration of the nvidia gpu for both MPEG2 and H.264.

You can watch live-TV with thoses Codes by configure the Media-Portal Client. Simply select the codec.

Regarding the old 8800, it is joke from nvidia that there flag ship does not have any support H.264 decoding.

regards,

Sörnt

[zag2me]

Really nice Case you have there.

Also nice floating TV mount.