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    Radeon 6950 to AVR?

    I'm not sure we understand the question, maybe because it is too simple. You don't need any extra software to connect your 6950 to the receiver, all you need are the built in drivers and to make sure you use a normal/compatible resolution and refresh rate (i.e. 720p, 1080p)
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    Cheapo HTPC + DVR

    Strange as it may be, I actually have two of the ATI Digital TV Wonders I am trying to sell, so if anyone here is interested, feel free to PM me...
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    When is it too much?

    You might want to consider working out how many of these you actually use at once. There are many other options instead of running an actual PC at each location. For instance, in my case, I have one main PC that runs everything (acting as a HTPC and Media Server) and then I have the HDMI output...
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    Potential tower enclosure - for 15 drives

    I had some issues with this, but they were quickly resolved with a pair of pliers. A lot of these cases have little metal tabs to help hold up the dvd/cd drives, but they are almost always punchouts from the main metal housing, so they can be easily bent back into the original position to allow...
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    Cheapo HTPC + DVR

    What HDTV are you talking about? Over the air HD signals? If you're talking about that, just about any windows PC you can buy a tuner card and it'll work (for ~$70) and a decent newish video card will output hdmi+audio.
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    3D HTPC under $500?

    Is this starting from scratch or using the hardware in your sig as well? Honestly, at that price point, I would not want to build a full PC if you have the PC in your signature already. I would probably just buy a new video card and use the rest of the current system (maybe add some ram and an...
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    Harmony 650 to control X360 running WMC extender for win7 pc??

    If you have the right devices in the setup, when you're in the harmony software go to the activities page and customize buttons on the activity you're talking about. You should be able to choose the device and action for each button of the remote for this activity.
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    SFF-8088 - LSI2008 Controller card suggestions?

    Have you considered buying adapters for the cables? There are many options for SAS 8087 - SAS 8088 that could help you out here. Though, In the end, It is probably cheaper to get an internal card + expansion and then a single set of cables to go out to the external enclosure...
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    Absolute best HTPC frontend software?

    There is nothing 'garbage' about either of those. They both work wonderfully and offer a lot. You may prefer either for one reason or another but overall they're both very good options and saying either is 'garbage' is misrepresenting them both.
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    First, it isn't nearly as complex as it may seem. It is $30 for the first year, $20 for each year after that. I'm not sure if it is worth it, but for me it is. There is also a subsidized plan that if you get a website hosted by a specific company, you can get meta<browser/> for free...
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    SSD Question

    "Better" is too subjective a term for this. Obviously a ram drive is faster, but it also is much more annoying to make use of, and has huge performance problems on the load/save of the drive. Every time you start your computer you have to reload the ram drive, sand save the contents every...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    It isn't as hard as it seems. The main thing for me was the reduction of redundancy in the systems. I didn't want or feel like it should be required to have a separate cable box, dvr, bluray player, on every tv. I ended up with a centralized PC that could play all of these things, bluray rips...
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    SSD installed on HW RAID card as JBOD (single). Will TRIM work?

    Trim will not work in this instance. Any time there is a raid controller (as of now, supposedly some new intel controllers that haven't been released should fix this) between the OS and the drive, TRIM will not work. Since the RAID controller will create essentially a virtual drive exposed to...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    Firstly (I did this originally with TMT a few years ago) but Cyberlink has a 30 day money back promise, so you can get your money back, if you want. As for MKV, that is just a container, not the compression. Converting Bluray to anything is an annoying process. You will have to reencode...
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    Best ways to keep low profile HTPC cool

    As I said originally, if you cannot work with the airflow of the case, there are only two other options (I think) updating the PSU, or the GPU. I think the PSU is more likely the problem here, and a much more efficient PSU would be more applicable to solving the heat issues. I also think...
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    Best ways to keep low profile HTPC cool

    Few things. First, I would recommend a 6570 in this scenario mostly because this is primarily a HTPC, and the addition of hardware decoding for many things (assuming there is software to take advantage of them) should help overall heat levels in the PC. Secondly, I agree that adding a card...
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    Best ways to keep low profile HTPC cool

    Right but if you have a card with a big enough heatsink and thermal management to handle being passively cooled, it should be easy to have enough airflow to cool everything efficiently, with little or no changes.
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    Best ways to keep low profile HTPC cool

    At least in the OPs case, with such an old video card, there are many passively cooled GPUs now that would greatly out perform his, e.g. this 6570.
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    Eyefinity upgrade question (HomeServer/Media PC/Gaming PC)

    Yup, I saw it over here.
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    Absolute best HTPC frontend software?

    Personally I use a harmony remote (the Harmony One) along with a USB IR receiver. Controls everything perfectly, as long as you have a good interface on the PC. I also have a small laptop running Input Director that is usually handly. That way, if something goes wrong, I just move the mouse...
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    Spotify versus Zune Market Place

    They already have 3G support, but only for streaming. The point I was getting at is that you cannot use 3G in order download songs, only stream them. Hopefully, that'll make more sense then. It still works wonderfully streaming all the time.
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    SSD Question

    No. The lifespan of an SSD is dependent upon writes (reads do not affect the lifespan of an SSD) of a sector. Theoretically this should increase their lifespan since you have half the number of read/writes (since two drives are sharing the same amount of work). Mostly depends on the...
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    Spotify versus Zune Market Place

    I have a Windows Phone 7 and the Zune subscription, so I wanted to point out some things. Windows Phone 7 and Zune are very well integrated, end to end. There is no need to a computer to download music right to your phone, directly from their service, or create new playlists, or stream music...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    Exactly. The only reason for me to have an ISO is if I have to. I do not burn anything back to a disc, nor do I ever need to mount it. TMT will play the folder directly, so theres no reason for me to limit myself to that. Before TMT, I had to mount it in a virtual drive, and then play it as a...
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    Absolute best HTPC frontend software?

    +1 For Windows 7 Media Center and MediaBrowser, I use it myself and it is the only thing I've found to properly handle everything I've thrown at it (including BluRay rips [folders])
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    Computer upgrade..

    If you've got $1000 for this, I would personally get two 6970's and two of your monitors. It shouldn't be hard to get under $1000 for that, newegg has them all priced at $999.96 + shipping, excluding $70 in rebates.
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    Is 750w enough?

    I'm not sure if you meant to, but I think you mis-typed something in there...
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    Best ways to keep low profile HTPC cool

    Any chance you can post pictures of the layout? If you can't get more airflow, there are two obvious things to do here. Either upgrade the PSU or upgrade the GPU. The power supply could probably be much more efficient, and therefore give off much less heat. Depending on the load, this could...
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    Is 750w enough?

    I agree here. I would recommend the 850W if you're planning on doing any overclocking of either. In regards to this: The Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum certified PSUs have nothing to do with their output, only how efficient they are. The 80 PLUS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia certification...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    That was my thought as well. Right now my system works end to end watching movies (including the troublesome bluray rips) and any TV show. It is very intuitive and a 'pretty' UI so that someone who has no idea how it works, or any idea behind the technology, can sit down and get it easily...
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    IBM X301 + HDTV + Receiver = HTPC?

    Okay. Few things. I think the DB-15 you're referring to is a VGA connector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:SVGA_port.jpg" class="image"><img alt="SVGA port.jpg"...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    I have. There is a noticeable loss of quality, to me. I very much prefer the full folder, especially since hard drive space is so cheap now. For most people there is not a difference between a ~10GB MKV and the BluRay rip, but, in my case, watching/listening on my setup there is a noticeable...
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    DRM hitch using TMT5

    That's interesting. I just watched 127 hours via TMT3 and had no issues (full bluray folder). I don't have anything else to add except maybe there is something else going on since it had worked for me (and, Black Swan, actually).
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    For me, I had problems with external players for bluray folders. The interface is wonderful, but I had problems setting up XBMC to play BDMV/BluRay folders, calling TMT correctly to do that, and integrating. I don't know about the OP, but for me that was a big enough issue that I moved beyond...
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    HTPC: Media Center or not? (Confused)

    Personally, I have this setup and it works wonderfully for me, though it isn't as exhaustive as your list of requirements. Mostly I am just chiming in because of the bluray mention as it seems most people have questions/concerns with this. For storage I have my drives (something close to 50TB...
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    Eyefinity upgrade question (HomeServer/Media PC/Gaming PC)

    That's interesting. I thought the 69xx series had the same issues as my current card in that you can only use 3 of the 4 connections. If that isn't the case, this is probably the route I will go.
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    Eyefinity upgrade question (HomeServer/Media PC/Gaming PC)

    As far as multiple people using this pc at once, I have that covered. I have dual gigabit NICs and a network that makes use of them. The one NIC is dedicated to serving the local intranet, while the second is for any downloading/gaming/use that the PC itself uses. The SSD that runs the OS is...
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    Eyefinity upgrade question (HomeServer/Media PC/Gaming PC)

    Why? Considering what I have do you think it is worth the extra money? I'm perfectly happy right now with the system I have. I have one machine that can do everything... So, my question is, why?
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    Questions about IR extenders/repeaters and xbox's

    First thing: Something like amazon probably has a *better* return policy than most brick and mortar store. Aside from that, I've probably done/investigated everything you're looking into. I currently have a main PC that runs two rooms (living room with a receiver + 7.1 surround, plasma and...
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    Eyefinity upgrade question (HomeServer/Media PC/Gaming PC)

    So here is my current setup: GA-X48-DQ6 Gigabyte MB Intel Q9450 4x2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 XFX 5870 (normal one - not the eyefinity 6 version) (Pci-e x16) Intel 160gb SSD RocketRaid 4320 (Pci-E x8) 8x2TB Seagate drives 18x1.5TB Seagate drives (Total 43TB + 160GB SSD) This PC goes to a...
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