Yeah the temps are what they are, winter will bring them down though. Also I noticed that the speedstep is keeping the CPU at 1.6GHz quite consistently so seems like there's no point underclocking it at all. I might be interested in getting a better case fan for it to pull the hotness out but I doubt... it's working fantastically now.
It's win7... I'd rather use ubuntu as the backend but I need my bitstreaming audio
Also the intel drivers seem to do a decent job with the local contrast enhancement and skin tones, I'm pretty sure the linux drivers won't support those. And the win7 boots ungodly fast (like 8 seconds from full power down), my amps hdmi doesn't have time to sync until the xbmc is already running so nobody ever sees windows loading screen
For remote I had an old Logitech diNovo mini keyboard which I got as a present years ago. The included bluetooth dongle is actually capable of powering on the box from shutdown which is awesome.
I tried the android remote's WoL functionality but it didn't seem to work, the bios didn't have anything about WoL either so it might not be supported on this MB
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