[HansP]

after a week headache i finally made up my mind and went for the Msi AMD 350

config :

Main : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813130568
Ram : http://www.boracomputer.net/product/2859...)-hs-.html
case: http://www.lc-power.de/index.php?id=241&L=0
remote : HP MCE

first impression is nice , mainboard fan is not hearable !
i'm now waiting to get my USB flashdrive bootable to install windows 7 lite

i'll keep u guys posted about my experience with AMD and will post pictures later

i want to thank all of u who helped me on my choise !

[magnetik]

Looks good - interesting HSF assembly on that board - have to keep an eye out on these new Zacate boards - once Linux support is home and hosed (if ever) - looks like the temps are a little nicer on these new AMD chips...

[HansP]

it starts at this moment to windows from an old sata disk ( need a new one ) in 50sec to XBMC so i think for an old ( think sata 150disk ) is not too bad


i've been playing around a bit a few hours and the HP MCE remote went perfectly straight on , just had to change 2 buttons that didnt work ( keystroke C for a menu and info ) the rest just works flawless

tomorrow i'm gonna bootup Xbmc Live and see how that plays ... if it's decent enough for 720P i might stick with it
now i'm off to bed for a 7hr sleep

[poofyhairguy]

tomorrow i'm gonna bootup Xbmc Live and see how that plays ... if it's decent enough for 720P i might stick with it
now i'm off to bed for a 7hr sleep

I would try

http://openelec.tv/

[eskro]

Looks very nice HansP!
total price is?

[HansP]

Mobo : 109,90€
Ram : 39€
Case : 43€ incl psu external passive
Remote : 15€ 2nd hand

i had a hdd lying arond ...

[HansP]

I would try

http://openelec.tv/

i want to stick with Xbmc

[poofyhairguy]

i want to stick with Xbmc

I was just trying to help. As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=748...stcount=16


XBMC Live is based on Ubuntu 10.04.

[nemek]

As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10

It doesn't matter since u have to manually install a lot of things so few more is not a big deal.

[HansP]

I was just trying to help. As you can see a working solution requires Ubuntu 10.10:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=748...stcount=16


XBMC Live is based on Ubuntu 10.04.

it was not meant badly

oh ic , than i'm gonna download ubuntu 10.10 , is this hard to install or pretty straight forward ?

[spadge_2356]

it was not meant badly

oh ic , than i'm gonna download ubuntu 10.10 , is this hard to install or pretty straight forward ?

really easy! just download the .ISO from Ubuntu website, burn to disk or put on USB drive and follow the on screen instructions. I went with Ubuntu 10.10 for my XBMC HTPC. I tried Windows installtion first but preferred Ubuntu because of course you can get different flavours (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ect)

With a truely 'light' installation you can get a lightning fast boot time with Linux. Someone told me in the Ubuntu forums he got the boot time down to 5 seconds before the XBMC logo came up.

How fast do you think yours will boot up in?

[HansP]

really easy! just download the .ISO from Ubuntu website, burn to disk or put on USB drive and follow the on screen instructions. I went with Ubuntu 10.10 for my XBMC HTPC. I tried Windows installtion first but preferred Ubuntu because of course you can get different flavours (Xubuntu, Lubuntu, ect)

With a truely 'light' installation you can get a lightning fast boot time with Linux. Someone told me in the Ubuntu forums he got the boot time down to 5 seconds before the XBMC logo came up.

How fast do you think yours will boot up in?

in windows i can work from touching the button to fully in windows in about 50secs right now ...

all works fine in windows at this point but a bit stuttering ...
i dno if it's cause of my old HDD , streaming to my old PC or just windowsresources ....
i like experimenting so i'm gonna install the ubuntu

i downloaded it and extracted the ISO , there is a make bootdisk but doesn't work
it starts of good
always getting missing operating system or invalid disk...

used unetbootin to write to the flashdrive ...

Edit : Connected internal DVDrom to external enclosure via usb ( aka mcgyverstyle )

edit 2 : it hangs when making bootpartition

[eskro]

Mobo : 109,90€
Ram : 39€
Case : 43€ incl psu external passive
Remote : 15€ 2nd hand

i had a hdd lying arond ...

very good!

[HansP]

very good!

me gives up linux , i'll wait till there is an xbmc live with ati support ...

[eskro]

me gives up linux , i'll wait till there is an xbmc live with ati support ...

we told ya, Linux + ATI = Headaches