Why couldn't I resist the urge to buy the I7? Why does it still sort of bother me that when I look at the CPU benchmark tests there are currently two consumer processors that are very slightly faster than the one I am buying but I wanted the Intel 4600 graphics so I had to "settle" for this...
I’ll preface this by saying I am a complete noob at this; I’ve never built a computer, but have always been intrigued by it.
I’m looking to build an HTPC that I can store movies on (approximately 250 blu-rays over time) I already purchased two 3TB WD Red drives and I think 14TB - 16TB as a...
This thread is dedicated to showing off everything that is awesome about HTPC.
Please share screen shots of your HTPC set up and share with the community what you love about your set up.
I have wanted to do a thread like this for some time, and in partnership with a few AVS veterans who are...
Hello
Lately I've been talking to my AVS pals about digitizing my audio to FLAC, and my video's which are mostly Blu Ray to what ever format I can get the best visual out come, not sure what is the equivalence for movies is call “MKV something”?
The convince, and storing most of my music...
Asrock Z87 Extreme4 + Haswell Pentium g3220
is this a good choice for windows 7 and flexraid
i need 8 sata ports as i have 7 hard drives at present
and also it has an intel nic
i think the g3220 supports 1333mhz ram but the board supports alot more
is there any benefit in using 2400mhz ram...
I know that this can be easily done by some people with more experience with HTPC building.
I have a media server that I am currently ripping my blu-ray collection to in uncompressed MKV files (full 1080p video and HD audio). It also will house a number of cd rips, but that is so minor. The...
The time has come.
Tiiiime to upgrade the current HTPC to a sleek, more-advanced, more-efficient son of a gun with the new parts that will be available within a month or two. Can you believe that it will be here that fast? Haswell is right around the corner! With Haswell, we have...
I just did it again and ordered parts to build yet another HTPC.
I built this:
Motherboard:
2 x ($48.99) ASRock H61M/U3S3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
$97.98 (+10% off = 44$) (Bought an extra.. lol )
2 Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor G630...