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<blockquote data-quote="Tomi" data-source="post: 184987" data-attributes="member: 19829"><p><strong>How about low budget MP setup?</strong></p><p></p><p>Sounds very familiar situation - I started to built my 1st Mediaportal setup few years ago. Fortunately I spent only about 500 euros for different components. I had Silverstone LC-13B case, Asus A7V880 mobo, 2 GHz AMD Sempron, 1 GB mem, Aerocool HT-102 cooler, Antec Phantom 350 W power supply, 300 GB SATA hdd, expensive "dual layer" noise insulation material, fans slowed down with Zalman fanmate 2s, Hauppauge Nova-t PCI, Microsoft MCE remote, etc.</p><p></p><p>Finally I just got enough when the case was running too hot and wasn't silent enough - I even broke the passive cooled power supply with inadequate case cooling and got to the point where I just didn't want to spend more money - but wanted to have a dead silent Mediaportal up&running.</p><p></p><p>One solution would have been a laptop or at least components from the mobile systems but I decided to go as cheap as possible and see the result.</p><p></p><p>I resuced the nova-t, remote & processor cooler from the previous setup I bought 2nd hand mATX motherboard, 1.4 GHz processor and 512 MB memory. I built a simple wooden hifi-case with "wind tunnels", one 120 mm fan and cheap noise insulation material. All the noisy parts (HDD, Processor cooler & power supply are deep inside the case. Now the processor temperature is around 45 deg celcius and the setup is almost inaudible daytimes. For this one I spent only about 150 euros and some quality time while building the case.</p><p></p><p>And my next case will be made out of concrete...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tomi, post: 184987, member: 19829"] [b]How about low budget MP setup?[/b] Sounds very familiar situation - I started to built my 1st Mediaportal setup few years ago. Fortunately I spent only about 500 euros for different components. I had Silverstone LC-13B case, Asus A7V880 mobo, 2 GHz AMD Sempron, 1 GB mem, Aerocool HT-102 cooler, Antec Phantom 350 W power supply, 300 GB SATA hdd, expensive "dual layer" noise insulation material, fans slowed down with Zalman fanmate 2s, Hauppauge Nova-t PCI, Microsoft MCE remote, etc. Finally I just got enough when the case was running too hot and wasn't silent enough - I even broke the passive cooled power supply with inadequate case cooling and got to the point where I just didn't want to spend more money - but wanted to have a dead silent Mediaportal up&running. One solution would have been a laptop or at least components from the mobile systems but I decided to go as cheap as possible and see the result. I resuced the nova-t, remote & processor cooler from the previous setup I bought 2nd hand mATX motherboard, 1.4 GHz processor and 512 MB memory. I built a simple wooden hifi-case with "wind tunnels", one 120 mm fan and cheap noise insulation material. All the noisy parts (HDD, Processor cooler & power supply are deep inside the case. Now the processor temperature is around 45 deg celcius and the setup is almost inaudible daytimes. For this one I spent only about 150 euros and some quality time while building the case. And my next case will be made out of concrete... [/QUOTE]
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