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I've been doing some research on low wattage HTPCs to hook up to my new plasma. It seems that some of the best ones out there are the atom/ion jobbers. Is it possible to build a low-power PC out of cheaper, larger hardware? My TV is mounted on the wall and I can put the PC in the room behind it, so I don't really care how small or pretty (or quiet for that matter, but quiet would be good) the computer is. I just need it to do Windows 7 smoothly with Mediabrowser for my SD DVD rips. I have another computer with a 780G chipset and it's rather slow going through Mediacenter/Mediabrowser, especially if something is playing. I'm not even planning on going the BR/BR-rip route at this point.