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My Htpc project - HansP - 2011-03-11
after a week headache i finally made up my mind and went for the Msi AMD 350
config :
Main : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130568
Ram : http://www.boracomputer.net/product/28591/3/4/19/hardware/arbeitsspeicher/ddr3-ram/ddr3-4gb-pc1333-cl9-patriot-kit-(2x2gb)-hs-.html
case: http://www.lc-power.de/index.php?id=241&L=0
remote : HP MCE
first impression is nice , mainboard fan is not hearable !
i'm now waiting to get my USB flashdrive bootable to install windows 7 lite
i'll keep u guys posted about my experience with AMD and will post pictures later
i want to thank all of u who helped me on my choise !
- magnetik - 2011-03-12
Looks good - interesting HSF assembly on that board - have to keep an eye out on these new Zacate boards - once Linux support is home and hosed (if ever) - looks like the temps are a little nicer on these new AMD chips...
- HansP - 2011-03-12
it starts at this moment to windows from an old sata disk ( need a new one
) in 50sec to XBMC so i think for an old ( think sata 150disk ) is not too badi've been playing around a bit a few hours and the HP MCE remote went perfectly straight on , just had to change 2 buttons that didnt work ( keystroke C for a menu and info ) the rest just works flawless
tomorrow i'm gonna bootup Xbmc Live and see how that plays ... if it's decent enough for 720P i might stick with it
now i'm off to bed for a 7hr sleep
- poofyhairguy - 2011-03-12
HansP Wrote:tomorrow i'm gonna bootup Xbmc Live and see how that plays ... if it's decent enough for 720P i might stick with it
now i'm off to bed for a 7hr sleep
I would try
http://openelec.tv/
- eskro - 2011-03-12
Looks very nice HansP!
total price is?
- HansP - 2011-03-12
Mobo : 109,90€
Ram : 39€
Case : 43€ incl psu external passive
Remote : 15€ 2nd hand
i had a hdd lying arond ...
- HansP - 2011-03-12
poofyhairguy Wrote:I would try
http://openelec.tv/
i want to stick with Xbmc
- poofyhairguy - 2011-03-12
HansP Wrote:i want to stick with Xbmc
I was just trying to help. As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=748531&postcount=16
XBMC Live is based on Ubuntu 10.04.
- nemek - 2011-03-12
Quote:As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10It doesn't matter since u have to manually install a lot of things so few more is not a big deal.
- HansP - 2011-03-12
poofyhairguy Wrote:I was just trying to help. As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10:it was not meant badly
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=748531&postcount=16
XBMC Live is based on Ubuntu 10.04.
oh ic , than i'm gonna download ubuntu 10.10 , is this hard to install or pretty straight forward ?
- spadge_2356 - 2011-03-12
HansP Wrote:it was not meant badly
oh ic , than i'm gonna download ubuntu 10.10 , is this hard to install or pretty straight forward ?
really easy! just download the .ISO from Ubuntu website, burn to disk or put on USB drive and follow the on screen instructions. I went with Ubuntu 10.10 for my XBMC HTPC. I tried Windows installtion first but preferred Ubuntu because of course you can get different flavours (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ect)
With a truely 'light' installation you can get a lightning fast boot time with Linux. Someone told me in the Ubuntu forums he got the boot time down to 5 seconds before the XBMC logo came up.
How fast do you think yours will boot up in?
- HansP - 2011-03-12
spadge_2356 Wrote:really easy! just download the .ISO from Ubuntu website, burn to disk or put on USB drive and follow the on screen instructions. I went with Ubuntu 10.10 for my XBMC HTPC. I tried Windows installtion first but preferred Ubuntu because of course you can get different flavours (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ect)
With a truely 'light' installation you can get a lightning fast boot time with Linux. Someone told me in the Ubuntu forums he got the boot time down to 5 seconds before the XBMC logo came up.
How fast do you think yours will boot up in?
in windows i can work from touching the button to fully in windows in about 50secs right now ...
all works fine in windows at this point but a bit stuttering ...
i dno if it's cause of my old HDD , streaming to my old PC or just windowsresources ....
i like experimenting so i'm gonna install the ubuntu
i downloaded it and extracted the ISO , there is a make bootdisk but doesn't work
it starts of good
always getting missing operating system or invalid disk...
used unetbootin to write to the flashdrive ...
Edit : Connected internal DVDrom to external enclosure via usb ( aka mcgyverstyle )
edit 2 : it hangs when making bootpartition
- eskro - 2011-03-12
HansP Wrote:Mobo : 109,90€
Ram : 39€
Case : 43€ incl psu external passive
Remote : 15€ 2nd hand
i had a hdd lying arond ...
very good!
- HansP - 2011-03-12
eskro Wrote:very good!
me gives up linux , i'll wait till there is an xbmc live with ati support ...
- eskro - 2011-03-12
HansP Wrote:me gives up linux , i'll wait till there is an xbmc live with ati support ...
we told ya, Linux + ATI = Headaches