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I guess the noise issue is very subjective and depends on where you put your computer. I was initially using computers for recording music, and since then, I have been obsessed with building computers that are silent enough that other noise sources (such as traffic) become dominant. My point is that computers can be very noisy and very annoying, or they can be built a lot more silent with only a little thought. Building completely silent computers, on the other hand, is expensive and means a lot of compromises.There usually is no such thing as "too much ram" (actually, there have been a couple of cases, such as >512MB on win98 systems, but that is really irrelevant to this discussion). If you'd like to be on the safe side, buy as much ram as you can afford, preferrably using only 2 sticks (as 4 sticks can lead to compatibility issues with some motherboard/ram combinations). My point is that you should not expect to see much performance improvement in typical htpc applications. If you are a hardcore photoshop user with raw 12mpixel pictures all over the screen, 2GB may be a very usefull thing.What is "Vimto"?Im sorry if I come off as a smart-ass. I try to share my experience (and far to many hours spent on forums like these and in front/back of of my computer). The same way that I am drawing on the experience of you media-portal guys =)regardsKnut
I guess the noise issue is very subjective and depends on where you put your computer. I was initially using computers for recording music, and since then, I have been obsessed with building computers that are silent enough that other noise sources (such as traffic) become dominant. My point is that computers can be very noisy and very annoying, or they can be built a lot more silent with only a little thought. Building completely silent computers, on the other hand, is expensive and means a lot of compromises.
There usually is no such thing as "too much ram" (actually, there have been a couple of cases, such as >512MB on win98 systems, but that is really irrelevant to this discussion). If you'd like to be on the safe side, buy as much ram as you can afford, preferrably using only 2 sticks (as 4 sticks can lead to compatibility issues with some motherboard/ram combinations). My point is that you should not expect to see much performance improvement in typical htpc applications. If you are a hardcore photoshop user with raw 12mpixel pictures all over the screen, 2GB may be a very usefull thing.
What is "Vimto"?
Im sorry if I come off as a smart-ass. I try to share my experience (and far to many hours spent on forums like these and in front/back of of my computer). The same way that I am drawing on the experience of you media-portal guys =)
regards
Knut