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my first HTPC build - stadtjunge - 2011-10-04
with the recommendation of another XBMC user, i've developed my first HTPC build:
Asus Eee EB1012P
Kingston 8GB SD card (for OS)
4GB Crucial RAM
HP IR Receiver
D-Link ShareCenter Pulse DNS-320
(2) 2TB WD Caviar Green drives
I am excited to get all the gear and try my hand at installing XBMC.
are there any items I'm missing? anything that I should be cautious of?
Thanks in advance!
- eskro - 2011-10-04
for the record, 4GB's of ram is too much....
OpenELEC runs fine even on 1GB...
- stadtjunge - 2011-10-04
XBMC will run on 4GB of ram though, right?
the price difference wasn't much, and i'm a fan of overkill.
- eskro - 2011-10-04
well, 4GB's for you then
- poofyhairguy - 2011-10-04
stadtjunge Wrote:the price difference wasn't much, and i'm a fan of overkill.
A fan of overkill (or heck just a fan of decent performance) would get a real SSD for the OS rather than try to run off a SD card. I have done both and the superior controllers and memory used in a SSD makes it night and day. And you linked a Class 4 card- mine was a class 10 and my slowest SSD would still run rings around its boot time!
Seriously, even this SSD will destroy that SD card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139427
- outatouch0 - 2011-10-04
poofyhairguy Wrote:A fan of overkill (or heck just a fan of decent performance) would get...I had similar thoughts but did not know where to begin.