Ongoing I did what every hardware silencing guru adviced me against. (1 Viewer)

[knutinh]

Despite everyone advicing against intel p4, I went that route for my HTPC...

SilverStone Lascala LC11M, Silver
Asus P5LD2-VM, i955G, LGA775, Dual Core
Pentium4 Prescott 630, 3.0GHz, S775
Kingston DDR2 512MB, DDR2-667
Zalman ZM-CS1, Socket 775 Clip Support
Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu
SilverStone SST-RC01 PCI-E Riser Card
NEC ND-3540, DVD±RW, Silver

Will be using Samsung harddrive, ATI 550 analog tv tuner and Terratec DVB-T tuner. Hopefully, it will all work out. Will report once the hardware is in house

I am using Media Portal right now, as it seems to be the only one supporting all my hw (sort of)

regards
Knut Inge

 

[AlexinPerth]

Re: I did what every hardware silencing guru adviced me agai

Good luck!

I've got an AMD Athlon 3000+ in this case, and it's fairly noisy. Let us know how you go with noise, and what you've done to quieten it down.

Cheers,
Alex.

 

[knutinh]

Hehe. Due to availability (not possible to get the VFD version here in norway). I went for the lc16m-s. Not as slick, but very low noise currently.

-k

 

[Toley]

Speed Fan all the way!

 

[Czar63]

Speedfan me too.

CPU fan speeding up at top speed only during summer nights.

 

[BoelShit]

I have a Zalman cooler with fanmate running @1350RPM... Passive N6200 and 1 papst case fan in a Silverstonetek LC16M-S.... still wanting to add a fanless PSU though!!!

 

[aasmund Nordal]

p4 is the best cpu for high quality video.

I recomand you to find a guide how to use:

ffdshow: for imaqe quality (needs Mhz, therfor intel is better than amd)

reclock: if you have have pal tv ntsc movies wil be speeded up to match pal and the movie wil go more smooth.

powerstrip: to get the correct resolution and refresh rate.
I guess correct resolution wil increese picture quality and i know refresh rate should match fps, so the movie goes smoother.

If you understand norwegian I have a great guide for you.

 

[bigal]

SpeedFan loses all the setting when restarted, how do I save the config?

It is pretty slow to check after chips everytime if it has find it one time isn't it? can this step be skipped in some way?

/BigAl