Completed My little HTPC ;) (1 Viewer)

[Tellus82]

Hi, i just have to share my HTPC setup with you guys, might give someone an idea

Hardware:
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum 54G, nForce3 Ultra, S939
Adata Vitesta PC4800, 2pcs of 512Mb 600Mhz DDR
AMD A64 3200@ 2,6Ghz Coolermaster Hyper6 and an ADDA 80mm fan
Gainward 2400GS, 6800GT AGP @440/1200 with Zalman VF700Cu
Tagan 480w PSU
Silverstone LC-14M with iMon VFD and remote
2pcs of Maxtor 80GB SATA, 8Mb Cache
Seagate 200GB PATA, 8Mb Cache with zalman heatpipe cooling.
NEC ND-1300A, DVDRW+-
Twinhan Sat-Ci 1030A with conax 4.0E cam
XP Prof with mediaportal and nVidia Purevideo codecs, o2grabber for epg.

Some pics, more of the interior will come

Home theatre front setup...

A really nice subwoofer, only a 10" inch driver but with a power reserve of 800rms W and 1400peak W...

Surrond setup, 3 out of 4 speakers

A few cables :wink:

EPG finally working

 

[Brocklander]

Very nice, and that display looks crisp! Do you think the speakers are big enough for a room that size

 

[Tellus82]

Well, their not that big, Canton LE107 for front and LE105CM as center, i use 4 pcs of LE101 as surrounds and a Yamaha YST-SW800 subwoofer. Bringing these to life is a Onkyo TX-DS898S Integra reciever.... The tv is a Samsung LE32T51B, thats connected via VGA and it runs in native resolution 1360x768, one of the few lcd tvs capable of native resolutins from a pc...

If you listen to these speakers you realise that they need a smaller room...

 

[snewman]

So does the LC-14M remote work okat with Media Portal?

What did you have to do to get the remote to function?

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[tkortell]

What’s with the white moose? I’ve newer seen a white moose. I can swear that "Helge" is not white.

R / tk

 

[Tellus82]

The iMon remote is really easy to get to work in mediaportal, you just have to use the iMon remote software and set it up for Mediaportals keybord commands...The software has a setup function wich allows you to use different keybord functions for different exe files.... wich means that every app using keyboard commands runs perfect with the remote...

The white moose is actually real... It may look a tad odd for some people but its not that uncommon in sweden now, we get more and more white elks, some say it´s because of the long winters and it´s a natural evolution and some say it´s a genetic defect. It´s not an albino...

 

[chili]

Very nice!
A possible tip for you ... try the widescreen version of BlueTwo. It's being updated right now but when the latest and greatest is released by boilermaker it fixes the stretched look on a 16x9 screen.

http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=74854

 

[Tellus82]

I have tried the 16:9 version and for some reason it hangs MP when i try to enter EPG while in fullscreen, don't know why really... Original blue two is the only skin that dosent make MP hang for me...

 

[Tellus82]

I have now upgraded my HTPC with some new components, as follows:

CPU: AMD A64 X2 4800+, 2,4Ghzx2, 1MB cachex2
GPU: XFX 7900GTX XT 675/1700 512MB
Audio: Creative X-Fi Extreme Music
PSU: Tagan 580w Easyconnect
Mem: Corsair XMS TwinX 2048 PC3200, 1024MBx2
MB: ASUS A8N32SLI-Deluxe

The difference in performance: HUGE!

Benchmark scores.
Aquamark3: 101378
3DMark01SE: 36333
3DMark03: 23700
3DMark05: 11900

This is with everything stock!

 

[mikael]

...and that display looks crisp!

How did you get that crisp display on your TV? Do you use TV-Out, DVI or VGA -> SCART?