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<blockquote data-quote="tklon" data-source="post: 22801" data-attributes="member: 10368">You should have a look at the possibilities of the riser cards. With this motherboard you can only put one AGP an no PCI card into your HTPC.Have a look here: <a href="http://www.silverstonetek.com/de/products-lc04.htm" target="_blank">http://www.silverstonetek.com/de/products-lc04.htm</a>A microATX board needs to have 3 PCI and one AGP slot to fit in that you can use one PCI and one APG with the riser cards.Instead of that board with SiS chipset you can use the K8V-MX with a VIA K8M800. It also support CnQ. With that chipset you can use <a href="http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml" target="_blank">RMClock</a> or <a href="http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalCPUID/index-e.html" target="_blank">CrystalCPUID</a> to do this. It should work.The Radeon 9250 has only native DX8.1 support. So I would recommend the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 Lite Retail. With DX9 support and passive cooling. Although I connected only via composite out to the tv the TV-Out quality is very good.Why do you build in a notebook hdd? The drive is mounted in this direction &quot;|&quot; and not &quot;_&quot;. :roll: Perhaps you get trouble because of that. Did you see the Samsung HA250JC (SpinPoint V120CE, U-133) with 250 GB. I read in some forums that it is very quiet to and it is special disigned for <a href="http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/consumer/index.htm" target="_blank">Consumer Electronics</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tklon, post: 22801, member: 10368"] You should have a look at the possibilities of the riser cards. With this motherboard you can only put one AGP an no PCI card into your HTPC. Have a look here: [url]http://www.silverstonetek.com/de/products-lc04.htm[/url] A microATX board needs to have 3 PCI and one AGP slot to fit in that you can use one PCI and one APG with the riser cards. Instead of that board with SiS chipset you can use the K8V-MX with a VIA K8M800. It also support CnQ. With that chipset you can use [url=http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml]RMClock[/url] or [url=http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalCPUID/index-e.html]CrystalCPUID[/url] to do this. It should work. The Radeon 9250 has only native DX8.1 support. So I would recommend the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 Lite Retail. With DX9 support and passive cooling. Although I connected only via composite out to the tv the TV-Out quality is very good. Why do you build in a notebook hdd? The drive is mounted in this direction "|" and not "_". :roll: Perhaps you get trouble because of that. Did you see the Samsung HA250JC (SpinPoint V120CE, U-133) with 250 GB. I read in some forums that it is very quiet to and it is special disigned for [url=http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/consumer/index.htm]Consumer Electronics[/url]. [/QUOTE]

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