Good day all,
I currently am running a home built HTPC with a Gigabit MB (can't remember which one), an Intel 2.8 dual core, 4g ram, an ATI HD 4650 with a gig (using the HDTV as a monitor), 2 1.5 t HDD, Plextor Blu Ray, OEM DVD, Soundblaster card, and wireless NIC.
I thought that this hardware would keep up but so far I have burned out a fan on the video card (and I assume soon the video card), a Blu ray player and am generating more heat due to over utilizing than I can deal with in the machine.
Looking for advise on decent pieces to use for redoing the machine. Want to use a quad processor, good GPU that can handle the work, good spacing for the cards (current MB didn't help with the NIC card next to the video card with no room for air movement), RAID 5, SATA 3.0 for SDD and heat control, lots of heat control.
Thx,
Drac
I currently am running a home built HTPC with a Gigabit MB (can't remember which one), an Intel 2.8 dual core, 4g ram, an ATI HD 4650 with a gig (using the HDTV as a monitor), 2 1.5 t HDD, Plextor Blu Ray, OEM DVD, Soundblaster card, and wireless NIC.
I thought that this hardware would keep up but so far I have burned out a fan on the video card (and I assume soon the video card), a Blu ray player and am generating more heat due to over utilizing than I can deal with in the machine.
Looking for advise on decent pieces to use for redoing the machine. Want to use a quad processor, good GPU that can handle the work, good spacing for the cards (current MB didn't help with the NIC card next to the video card with no room for air movement), RAID 5, SATA 3.0 for SDD and heat control, lots of heat control.
Thx,
Drac