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**apj101** · 04-03-2006, 10:19 AM

Hi the_other_one
I set up my home theater about 6-9 months ago now. Its just a simple cheapish box based around a celeron D 335.
I invested a little extra cash to buy a decent heatsink (Zalman flower) and silent psu (Antec phantom 350W fanless) so i can run the box passive(expect for 1 x Vantec SF12025L stealth 120mm fan <- very quite). I downclocked a little to drop the vcore.

My dvd drive is a external iomega (cant recall the model), but the fact that it's external means i can run the box well behind the tv cabinate and still have the drive near the front.

I use MCE 05 with the MS remote, i find it to have the best interface, and can easily be built on

I wasted some cash getting a digital tuner card only to find out that the signal in my area wasnt good enough for it and i had to go and pick up an analogue card. But to be honest i never watch the tv, i encode all my dvds onto the HDD so i dont really use the dvd drive much either.

I also find that MCE allows you to build plugins quite easily with a bit of vbscript, and javascript you can pull together great interfaces for loads of stuff (you need to download the mce development pack from online).

04-03-2006, 10:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
apj101 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London Age: 26 Posts: 9,179	Hi the_other_one I set up my home theater about 6-9 months ago now. Its just a simple cheapish box based around a celeron D 335. I invested a little extra cash to buy a decent heatsink (Zalman flower) and silent psu (Antec phantom 350W fanless) so i can run the box passive(expect for 1 x Vantec SF12025L stealth 120mm fan <- very quite). I downclocked a little to drop the vcore. My dvd drive is a external iomega (cant recall the model), but the fact that it's external means i can run the box well behind the tv cabinate and still have the drive near the front. I use MCE 05 with the MS remote, i find it to have the best interface, and can easily be built on I wasted some cash getting a digital tuner card only to find out that the signal in my area wasnt good enough for it and i had to go and pick up an analogue card. But to be honest i never watch the tv, i encode all my dvds onto the HDD so i dont really use the dvd drive much either. I also find that MCE allows you to build plugins quite easily with a bit of vbscript, and javascript you can pull together great interfaces for loads of stuff (you need to download the mce development pack from online).