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just get the KINGSTON 8GB SSD then,, goes for ~$40
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witch version of Aeon do you have ? i have one but its slow when selecting to go to the options or movies ....
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eskro
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well AEON MQ2 is considered an heavy duty skin....
since im using it on top of an SSD,
everything goes blazing fast for me!
Now, the latest version of the AEON MQ2 gives you the possibility
to choose 3 modes of installation,
BASIC
NORMAL
FULL
Anyhow, i chose BASIC, and its really fast!!
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I can't get over how fast your computer is when you exit the movie while it is still playing. I recently built an htpc similar to this, but I have a 3 core processor and just using on board graphics. Mine has a slight pause to it. Looks like you did a great job!
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2011-03-14, 08:21
(This post was last modified: 2011-03-16, 07:52 by tomal2k.)
hi eskro,
nice setup, this will lead to a long story but i'll keep mine short . my "Project" stared last year when didn't quite have lot of content, still burning .avi on DVD and watching it on my DVD player. we got a 55" led that came with few surprises, can't watch any avi's any more as they look shit, along with loosing 4 years on personal pictures which was my own fault. i was forced to get a NAS with raid so I don’t loose any more data. anyway with NAS i got more space that lead to Blurays and HTPC in consideration. Like many people here my wife will never tick a budget [more than $300] that only plays movies on tv, so had to go Economy mode. After a long research i got ASRock 330HT [barebone] i had a spare 80gig HD and 2 Gig DDR2 ram. The system is almost perfect but obviously has occasional hiccups being Atom plus I can’t Rum AEON MQ because it is too slow on this PC. My current setup is ASRock ION330HT+80SATA HD+2GB DDR2 Ram+XBMC Live. Atom is good because I am going Green from last year. My Question to you is:
How is the power consumption on your device.
What was the total spent? [I live in Australia]
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By my count the parts in your original post should consume a peak of about 210w, typical load would be 110-130w, depending on how you are configured for cool n' quiet and such. During sleep mode it'll be a lot less than that, in the teens perhaps.