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Originally Posted by jaydee116
If it is placed under your TV then why does it have to be quiet? I would think the TV sound system would easily knock out any sounds from such a unit even air cooled. I can't hear my computer over my TV and it is currently air cooled and it is an old TV with stock speakers.
Also does a HTPC really have to have so much CPU power? Why not use one of the VIA/Cyrix chips that can be cooled with a heatsink? 7 watts at 1000mhz should easily run that thing. http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/eden-n/
But anyway whatever. Good luck. |
I totally agree with you, but as we are about to get the aluminium chassis for the first prototype we decided to make it as powerful as possible, to be able to demonstrate powerful games with it ect.
And ofcourse its more fun with Watercooling
So we got one AMD 64 3600+, 2 GB ram and ATI XT800 256mb graphic card to put in it.
When we se that our concept works, we'll probably take it a step further and create a passive chilled htpc, and then the Eden-N CPU, and Nano ITX mainboard is very intresting.
regards Patrik