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It is really easy to do, and if you search there are lots of guides on how to install xbmc live on a usb - that way you dont really need to mess with linux too much, just for updates.
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2010-01-07, 02:29
(This post was last modified: 2010-01-07, 03:08 by FuzzeWuzze.)
Hate to bring this thread back to life, but it has a lot of good information.
Unfortunately a lot of the motherboards such as the Gigabyte board are no longer available on Newegg it seems ...
Curious what the "top" mini/micro ATX boards w/ 9300|9400's are?(I'd like to be able to do flash HULU, etc as well)
My current gaming system is already a C2D E6600 w/ 2GB G.Skill Ram and what not, so i was thinking about taking out the E6600 and 2GB of ram and drives and sticking it in a Mini/MicroATX board and running Live when i upgrade to a new I7 machine in a few months...
Will something like the E6600 have enough juice to not have any studdering using even the worst of UI skins?
Something like the ZOTAC GF9300-G-E from Newegg seems like a good board that has everything...
Also to run a Zotac, E6600, and 2-3 harddrives how big of a Power supply am i lookin at? Never really built a small machine with onboard graphics, always big gamign machines with 600W+ PSU's..so seeing these Mini ITX cases with 65-300W power supplies scare me...
Lookin at somethin like the Thermaltake Element Q to put it in...as i can get one fairly cheap locally it seems....
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Anybody got any input? :/
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Does it do full 1080p in Windows with GPU Acceleration? And does it do h264, etc? Sorry for asking here but that thread is 112 pages long and the first few pages people seemed to have problem with x264 which most of my HD videos are in...
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yes it will do full 1080p in windows, i'm using the single core acer ion with 1 gig of ram.
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Hmmm very nice indeed. I was a tad worried i'd have to use Linux for XBMC...granted i can get my way around it but i always had a ton of issues with Linux and MythTV back in the day getting it to work properly with my MCE keyboard/remote...im sure a lot of that is fixed now but man was it dumb..
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xbmc works with windows, and yes hardware acceleration, see my previous post for the link. Try it you will like it.