Acer Revo RL70 looks to be a great pre-made system...

I wonder also if the RL70 remote that comes with it is a MCE...

The reason it can't do Netflix HD is due to Microsoft Silverlight, it doesn't use any hardware acceleration like flash and HTML5, So you need a beefy cpu to compensate. There was an update to it but still not working the way it should be....after much complaining from all corners of the Earth, Statements were released that Netflix might change to HTML5 instead of Silverlight, now let's see if they really care about there customers....HTML5=Netflix HD for Zacate. It can game too Beerz, we play mostly Halo Custom Edition here at the house.

Zacate 2.0 should be released any month now. ( E2-1800) cpu 1.70ghz, gpu HD 7xxx series, native usb 3.0....18 watts TDP compared to Trinity 35 watts. I'll be using these boards as soon as they come out, I'm more excited about this than Trinity. After Trinity's release a couple months later the new FX chips will be released with built in HD 7xxxx graphics in 8,6,and 4 core flavors. I just don't see the reason for Trinity.

That is why I did my A6-3500 build.... I wanted to see what it could do. Pretty amazing little box and dead silent...

Now for this RL70..... if I open it you think I will void warranty.... witch I don't care if it works right....

I would like at least to get 4 gigs in there.... any recommendations?
I love crucial btw!

I think it has 2 slots for RAM... fromt he video on my first post...


Crucial 4 gigs 1333

Wonder if it can take higher....

or maybe like you said I don't need 4 gigs 2 is fine.....

Yeah APU's is all you need for what we use "our" PC's for...your A6 is awesome! About the warranty, I'm not sure...maybe contacting Acer about upgrades. There site says it has a Limited One Year Warranty, so you might want to read up on that before anything else. Honestly Beerz, 2gb is enough for HTPC use or TorrentBox, I would just try it out like that first. Crucial makes great Ram.

Alright really is not for my HTPC but.... I am going to buy it. And I will test it with XBMC also....

I'll write up a review....

Thank you for your help....

If this works wonders for HTPC! as I think it will and you already know.... best system to buy already made!

It's way slick.....

Slick! indeed....I really never take pics of the builds I do but I've seen how helpful they are too others trying or thinking about building with the same components...So with that in mind I'll be taking pics from now on and posting. I'll try and get pics of one of the Zacate builds I did of a client that wanted a setup like your's except he had his LCD TV mounted on the wall with a Swivel Mount so I ended up mounting the PC to the Wall in the space between the tv and the wall...you can't see it, it's still behind the TV and It is Dead Silent....no fans on the case n no fans on the motherboard.
I used and Asrock E-350M1 board, 2gigs of Kingston ram, and the M350 case with pico psu and swapped out the stock heatsink with a Zalman Fanless Northbridge heatsink.
http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-m...-enclosure
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q...CG4Q8wIwAA

homewrek where have you been? I really don't remember you.... good job. Nice to know there is another GURU in the house!
Amazing no fans?

How hot does the CPU get?

Will be awesome when you start posting your builds....

Well under the TDP, we kept an eye on it for days since it was behind the TV, I thought it would get much hotter but it didn't and I know for a fact this client runs his pc 24/7, the first thing he said, " I don't wanna be FKN with it....I just wanted to be there in the back, I don't want to be pushing any buttons to turn it on or off " LOL mmmmm where have I heard that before...MY WIFE!!!! So it's always on or asleep and he just wakes it up with wmc remote. I was mainly on AVS forums but decided to just focus on XBMC, and help out and share my builds over here, theres alot of Windows Media Center or Die!!! Kinda guys over there, but I just love the direction XBMC is going in, I love the community, the support...

Just pulled the trigger on one of these after cutting my teeth on the Revo 3610.

It looks great and a little easier to Mod than the original Revo.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthr...t=18375202

The AMD E-450 also got a nice test review vs an ION system here:

http://knurdtech.com/amd-e-450-review-linux-htpc/

My only worry is the Fusion support in XBMC, but I've read a lot of threads saying it has come of age now.