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Help me build my new Home Theater PC
Josh:
I've decided to go with 2x 2GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2 Memory Modules which can be seen here.
I am now looking for the case and hard drives and I am set to go!
mouser:
josh,
just a few thoughts:
playing multimedia files is now something that is easy to do with almost any hardware -- if i were building a multimedia PC then there is one thing i would put at the TOP of my list:
#1 by far - getting the QUIETEST components i could. people always seem to overlook this, but bleeding edge graphics cards and hard drives are LOUD. power supplies can be too. For a multimedia pc i think youd be better off with slower cpu and lower powered graphics card that are quiet. just my 2 cents.
Josh:
Mouser,
That is why I went with the SeaSonic PSU and am looking for quiet hard disk drives. Those are the two biggest noise makers. The cases are usually fairly quiet as they are designed to be an HTPC and as such, the fans are usually quiet and low-profile.
4wd,
Can you recommend a good case with a VFD display? What exactly is it?
EDIT:
As can be seen above I have decided on the hard disk drives as well. 1x 10000RPM OS Drive (Western Digital) and 2x Seagate Barracuda's in a RAID 1 config for the data portion.
Thoughts?
Josh:
One thing I forgot about was a good set of speakers for this system. Does anyone have any input on those? Looking for 5.1 initially but if 7.1 presents itself at a decent price, I might go with that to start.
mouser:
Two threads on DC about quiet pc components:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=6318.0
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7369.0
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