Completed Shoebox Size HTPC (1 Viewer)

[karu]

SFF HTPC

Case and PSU: APEX MI-100 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply - Delivered
Motherboard: JetWay JNC62K AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 - Shipped
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane 2.5GHz - Delivered
RAM: Patriot 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 - Delivered
Harddrive: Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 - Shipped
DVD: LITE-ON Black SATA Blu-ray DVD-ROM - Shipped
(total is like - $739; take out the Blu-ray player and use a 22 dollar regular DVD you got yourself a 600 dollar HTPC)

Software
32 bit Vista Home Premium - Delivered
MediaPortal V1.0.0.0.0 RC1
CCCP - h.264 disabled
CoreAVC for h.264

Maybe it should be called Shoe Box HTPC


SFF complete at least the building part..now the MediaPortal part to come next

Yay Motherboard!

Yay it comes with a mini cpu cooler!

smooth sailing

OMG no comment on wire management: note to self i'm not building an SFF anymore.

Blu-Ray drive was tough to put in. this thing was thicker than the usual drive

Mission Complete!

All finished! the HDMI Video/Audio works well to my suprise.

Next up! Omaura HTPC!

 

[kimko]

it would be great to get more detailled infos. does it run smoothly with bluray? and so on....

 

[karu]

Hardware acceleration drivers are a bit tricky. But i believe in time it'll be worked out. I use Nvidia Driver 175.16 and got it to work.

Most Blu-ray disks i put in has a CPU usage of 25% to 58%.
Blu-ray rips x264 mkv format CPU usage between 20% to 77%

Once i get home i'll get some screenshots on CPU usage etc..

 

[2BitSculptor]

WOW!...

This would make a sweet second client, for the kids playroom and set it up to just watch kids movies and music, and maybe a few simple games.

Thanks for sharing, and keep us posted.

Chuck

 

[karu]

Here are some stats.

The system runs really smoothly including with Media Portal to my suprise. Sadly I don't have an elite sound system to fully test the surround sound support.