Your Very First HTPC? But Where do You Start?

Once you have a mobo picked out with USB 3, both of those cases have front USB 3 ports so they will give you USB 3 speeds with a USB 3 motherboard.

Some cases may only have USB 2 front ports, which will only give you USB 2 speeds for those ports regardless of if the motherboard supports USB 3. Nothing to worry about with those cases though.

Thanks that's what I though. I like the look of the GD06B so much but it costs almost double.

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Can this case be used to turn on the pc from s5 state with the included remote?

Antec Fusion Remote Black

(2012-06-07 12:11)Goiki7 Wrote:  Hi all, a quick thanks to Beer40oz and eskro for all there input.
I'm a PC noob when it comes to technical side of PCs so please forgive my noobness.
I'm putting a rough list together of PC components that will make up my HTPC.

My question is would there be any reason to get a MOBO with USB3.0 ports vs a cheaper MOBO with only USB2.0?
Eg: H61M-DS2 vs H67MA-USB3.

Thanks.

Bear in mind that the H61 mobo may also miss out on SATAIII and AHCI support.

David

Is it possible to put a backing plate for a cooler on mini itx H77 mobos like Asus P8H77-I or Asrock H77M-ITX? I'm thinking about using either Big Shuriken 2 or Noctuа NH-L12. Noctua unlike Scythe has weird Intel style bolts to mount cooler without any backplate. I don't trust this mounting system so I'd like to use the normal one.

The bigger problem is that both of those coolers cover up a pcie slot. I need it for a low profile sata card (2 port for Asus or 4 port for Asrock). It doesn't look like any 4 port card would fit, does it. 2 port card may be lower, but that leaves Asus as the only option and that means no wake on USB/IR.

Are there any quiet CPU coolers which fit Lian Li PC-Q08 (110mm of clearance) without completely blocking pcie?

EDIT:
Prolimatech Samuel 17 is asymmetric enough not to block pcie or even tall ram depending on orientation.

Intel DH77DF also has CIR header and supports wake on IR. What is more important it also has CEC header so there's no need for external adapters. It looks like it's very picky with ram though. I haven't even heard of the most of the brands from supported ram list.

(2012-06-29 14:06)DavidT99 Wrote:  

(2012-06-07 12:11)Goiki7 Wrote:  Hi all, a quick thanks to Beer40oz and eskro for all there input.
I'm a PC noob when it comes to technical side of PCs so please forgive my noobness.
I'm putting a rough list together of PC components that will make up my HTPC.

My question is would there be any reason to get a MOBO with USB3.0 ports vs a cheaper MOBO with only USB2.0?
Eg: H61M-DS2 vs H67MA-USB3.

Thanks.

Bear in mind that the H61 mobo may also miss out on SATAIII and AHCI support.

David

FWIW, both the ASUS P8H61-I and Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 have AHCI support.

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Celeron CPU (G530, etc) can bitstream HD Audio. Please correct this in the first post.

Those CPU marks in post #1 need updating.

David