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Hi, I have always been a value ram user since price and stability have been paramount up until this point. Now that high performance ddr2 ram has dropped below what I payed for value ram, I am considering upgrading. I have a E6300 and will be getting a Gigabyte DS3 rev 3.3 to replace my Asrock...

Ok, I wanted to revisit a NAS or similar device for storing all of my movies, music, etc. I am putting this post here since you all know about media storage and streaming and I really don't want to get too much into the networking or other nitty gritty of it all. Currently everything is stored...

for instance if I downloaded something in college 7 years ago, could the fbi or other agency see that? i don't quite understand enough to know what is or isn't possible when big brother may or may not be looking. if i have a dynamic ip address, can my ISP keep track of which ones were used by...

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11199937 Same-ish price as the xbox drive. If you took it out of its case I wonder if less modding would be necessary for things like the eject button. The joke is probably on me and it is an identical toshiba drive inside. Anyways...

While the new reviews say they aren't groundbreakting for gaming, it looks like the 8600gt might be the new best card for HTPC use. It has even more Purevideo features than the 8800 series, plus it has lower power consumption than a 7600gt. The MSRP is supposed to be $150, which is already...

This thread from the hot deals forum has an xbox360 HDDVD drive (without enclosure) for $100 shipped. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1181027 I am SOOOOO tempted to try to mount this in my HTPC. Unfortunately, I am out of play money right now. Anyone else want to give it a try? :p

I have been toying around with building or buying a NAS device for quite sometime. Prebuilt ones range in prices and functionality, but the ones that end up looking good to me end up seeming too expensive. I could build a lowend pc and use it, but I wanted to avoid the power consumption that...

Has anyone played around with this yet from an HTPC standpoint? I have a perpetual tinker and upgrade bug that has me itching to switch to something new. I am also trying to get things streamlined for my wife. My main concerns are upscaling DVD's, playing xvid, and then doing simple photo...

ok, so my new thing is stripping my windows installations of everything that I don't need. I did that to an old laptop and it runs like its 2002! in an effort to get max image quality with the least amount of loaded codecs and hardware, can i rely on just ffdshow? i have always had the...

Is this the right forum for some help? I have an adata 4gb flash card that is about a year old that is suddenly undetectable by anything. It was working fine with my camera, pda, my card reader, and my laptop. Now, it isn't recognizable so I can't even format it. Does anyone have any ideas...

hi guys, it's been awhile since i messed around with the htpc setup, but things gradually have stopped working properly and i think it is time to revisit some things. i have decided to give up on meedio since it isn't being actively worked on anymore and have moved over to sage tv. i...

I probably didn't even get the initials right, which shows my newbness with monitors. I am very interested in the dell 2007wfp, particularly for the stand adjustments and the additional inputs. with all the hubbub about the panel lottery, what are the actual pros and cons of each type? I will...

For those using Xvid to store movies on their servers, what settings do you use? I have started out using autogk and set it to 100% quality, and it is quite watchable. It isn't quite what uncompressed vob's look like, but certainly close enough for starters. Is there a way to squeeze a little...

Anyone know of a standalone tv tuner unit (of high quality, of course) that can be hooked up to an LCD monitor sans computer? This would be for taking a monitor to a friends house to use it as a TV. Thanks!

I had abandoned Sage a while back when I got a HD DVR from my cable company, but have started to run into problems with the missus because we only have one tv and I got the Wii a little before Christmas. So now I am looking at reinstalling my pvr500mce, sage tv, and buying placeshifter so I can...

It still comes with a 3yr warranty. Does anyone know what their dead pixel policy is? thanks!

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/10/gefen-home-theater-scaler-converts-standard-def-to-high-def/ could be useful for multi source setups. i look forward to some reviews.

Hi folks, I am using a Dell 1704 monitor at home which has started going all white if I use it for more than a couple hours. Turning it off then on gets the image to come backup, but it goes white again within a couple minutes. Could it be overheating? Can LCD monitors even do that? It is...

Ok, HTPC is fine, but what I want to do is get music up to my living room (HTPC is in basement). I have an old laptop that has a wireless card so I was going to use that as a music player. The questions I have center around what type of speakers or receiver you would recommend I go with. I...

woot.com In case any one is the market. Don't know anything about this except that it seems like a good deal. Only a 480p projector.

Ok, HTPC is currently using an AGP 9800pro's component dongle to my HDTV. The DVI does not work properly with my TV. I am quite pleased with the video, so there isn't a problem right now. My question is whether or not the potential benefits of the full Purevideo feature set available on the...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-ACR-A6CH-Sound-Card-with-SPDIF-Out_W0QQitemZ320002749938QQihZ011QQcategoryZ3701QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem This is the guy I bought my spdif bracket from for my Asus board. Just noticed that he has these cheap sound cards by Asus. Does anyone know if they...

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/20/nvidia_launches_7600gs_agp/ As soon as they are reasonably priced, I will be replacing my 9800pro with one. Full access to Purevideo features, plus a more efficient (not to mention more powerful) gaming card sure looks good to me. There are a lot of...

I was reading a discussion on Tomshardware forums about the core 2 duo chips coming out and someone was ranting about how they have the new trusted computing modules embedded which means that media companies might have access to our computer contents. He also said that AMD is one of the few...

With the AM2 price cuts, a 3800+ single core looks awfully tempting for only $150. But is it silly to buy when multiple cores are the future? I guess I could use it as a stop gap until AMD's answer to Conroe comes out. (assuming existing chipsets could handle the future processors.) I know...

Ok, I managed to get ahold of a throwaway pc from work which has a p3 550 processor and 256mb of pc100 ram. Obviously this has no sata ports. I am going to try to use this as the basis of a media server. I don't think I am going to have this do anything other than host and distribute my...

http://www.sfftech.com/index.php?/articles/show/shuttle_x100_preview/ Looks like a very nice sff. Dvi, spdif out. The inclusion of the x1400 gives it a leg up on a Mac mini. I wonder if it has full Avivo features to further enhance it for HTPC use. $699 suggested retail is reasonable...

Do you use RAID? What kind? And why? Thanks!

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2255 too bad it is based on Intel's integrated graphics. what makes it worse it that there isnt a pcie slot for another graphics card. will be interesting to see how quickly other manufacturers will follow.

I am sure most of you have heard about the new 750gb Seagates? http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/26/seagate_introduces_750gb_barracuda_hdd/ I wonder how noisy they are? One of these would allow me to rip all my dvd's to a single harddrive instead of needing to build a server. I will hold...

I have run into two movies recently that I cannot play on my computer. They were both by Sony Pictures: the new Zorro, and the Cave. I can get the menus to come up fine, but I can't watch the movie. I can't rip it properly with Decrypter or Shrink. I tried playing it in VLC, Nero Showtime...

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/06/boot-camp-the-day-after/ I am sure someone already knows this, but it looks like with the new boot manager that apple just released, you can load up windows on intel based mac's, including windows mce. there may be driver issues, but i am sure those will be...

well, i am planning on getting a laptop that will function as a mobile htpc. questions I had were about power consumption. i assume it would be more efficient to rip the dvd's to my harddrive and play from there as opposed to spin a dvd for the full movie, but i often assume incorrectly. can...

I like it. If they made one with a black theme, even better. Digital outs for both video and audio? Nice touch. the X1600 isnt a gaming vid card, but it out to have avivo and will certainly be able to handle HD. If it came in close to $1000, it could sell like crazy...

from HTPCnews.com petabyte hdds. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7929

steve's digicams seems pretty favorable towards this camera/camcorder, and I like what it does. this is pretty expensive, however and was looking for opinions and or reviews from people who might have seen it in action. i am looking for something pocketable that I can take on vacation for...

I started this in the video card forum since I had just got a new one that I thought was causing this. Looks like it is the monitor. Does any one have any ideas? Thanks. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1015386

Installed a new graphics card on Saturday, and everything was going fine. Played several hours of various 3d games (Quake 2, Quake 4, Far Cry, Prince of Persia) without incident. Just a few minutes ago, while just browsing the web, I have a single one inch column of slightly altered image...