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<blockquote data-quote="goaltendah1" data-source="post: 177170" data-attributes="member: 55839">Hi, I'm new to the forums, and new to the HTPC world.I'm in the process of slowly building a system that I intend to put into an Antec Fusion case as well, and I have already bought the CPU (AMD 64 X2 6000), MOBO (Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H) and Memory (A-Data dual channel 2gb).After pursuing the forums I have found that I probably went overkill on the CPU, and maybe even the memory, but based on the CPU (125 watts) and the Antec case, can I get away with just a heat sink and the two case fans, or would it be smarter to use a heat sink/fan combo to cool the CPU?By the way, MediaPortal looks like an awesome media platform and I’m glad I did the research and found this place.&nbsp; I wasn’t looking forward to shelling out the bucks for MCE or Vista just to make this HTPC.&nbsp; Great work to everyone involved in designing this program.&nbsp; I look forward to loading it onto my HTPC once it’s completed.Jeff</blockquote>

[QUOTE="goaltendah1, post: 177170, member: 55839"] Hi, I'm new to the forums, and new to the HTPC world. I'm in the process of slowly building a system that I intend to put into an Antec Fusion case as well, and I have already bought the CPU (AMD 64 X2 6000), MOBO (Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H) and Memory (A-Data dual channel 2gb). After pursuing the forums I have found that I probably went overkill on the CPU, and maybe even the memory, but based on the CPU (125 watts) and the Antec case, can I get away with just a heat sink and the two case fans, or would it be smarter to use a heat sink/fan combo to cool the CPU? By the way, MediaPortal looks like an awesome media platform and I’m glad I did the research and found this place. I wasn’t looking forward to shelling out the bucks for MCE or Vista just to make this HTPC. Great work to everyone involved in designing this program. I look forward to loading it onto my HTPC once it’s completed. Jeff [/QUOTE]

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