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January 09, 2012 at 6:09pm

Gateway 101974 Laptop Keyboard

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Gateway MX8710 Laptop Keyboard

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Panasonic DE-A66 Battery Charger

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Panasonic SV-AS10 Battery Charger

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS5 Battery Charger

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 Battery Charger

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS4 Battery and Charger

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS7 Battery and Charger

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ness64

December 02, 2011 at 6:11pm

I wish I could build this, but I can't find the case becasue I live in Malaysia. Somehow, all the other parts are down here. I probably need to look harder. But this is a great build anyway! But the only changes I would make is to bump the 2500K to a 2600K, and bump the 560 Ti to a EVGA GTX 580 3GB. I just want a PC which has power in a small size. But the only problem is that things are more expensive down here. :-(

AreWeNotMen

November 30, 2011 at 2:08pm

I had used a laptop for an HTPC, and was ready to move onto something a bit better that could do gaming as well.

I was also looking for a project to do with my kid.  I scaled back the hard drive storage because of the cost, and got an MSI R6950 Twin Frozr iii instead of the Nvidia card.  The Nvidia seemed to have a high post-installation failure rate on Newegg.  The 6950 had power connectors on the top, though.  It was a snug fit once I put the cover on the machine.

The SSD is a nice luxury. but is probably overkill.  

I also bought a cheaper blu-ray drive (from Asus, on sale), and bought the TMC software blu-ray player on sale for $50.  That let me retire the stand-alone blu-ray player I had.

The noise is tolerable from the machine.  I don't think there is room for an aftermarket cooler unless you go with the Hxx from Corsair or some other low profile unit.  The stock fan was workable for me, as I am not overclocking right now.

I have an HDHomerun unit connected to it via ethernet.  Works great for off-the-air recording.  Also, found a cheap PCIe 802.11n card for networking.

The case is very cool looking.    Routing the cables was the biggest hassle with this build. It was my first new build in about 6 years, but nothing too difficult.  

This how-to worked for me. I had a lot of fun putting it together.

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krom

November 17, 2011 at 10:46am

Not that I have a great preference either way, but I wouldn't mind the option, what is a comperable AMD graphics card?  Also do any of the AMD cards allow for 3D BD or just the Nvidia cards.  A nice build.  

erraticfocus

November 08, 2011 at 6:12pm

Motherboard Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z

$180

Seriously? $180 I'd love to know where you can get this board from at a price less than $240!!!

strangelove9

November 08, 2011 at 8:00am

I'm not too stoked about the idea of leaving the stock cooler on - it's small and noisy. But, on the other hand, this chassis is less forgiving than "regular" (vertical) towers.

What's a good aftermarker cooler (preferrably with a 12 cm fan, or thereabouts), that's also not bulky, and fits into such a case?

Vatigu

November 08, 2011 at 3:29am

Realistically I'd say this machine is kind of overkill, if you wanted a pc that can game and do HTPC duties grab a 35ft hdmi cable and run it from your office to your tv, and set up a wifi based mouse/kb combo, then set up some hotkeys to swap between HTPC TV-out profile and your single desktop profile.

First that handily eliminates the issue of needing a small sleek enclosure grab a hafx for all it matters.

Secondly it completely negates the sound of your GTX 560 TI/leafblower while media'ing and you _could_ game on your TV, or you could also just as easily hook up the headset and game at a desk in a comfortable pose without using your couch as a mouse-mat.

In my books this is the most elegant solution for this kind of problem, assuming you have the capability of fishing the HDMI cable from your office space to your media space.

Ultimately I think this unit defeats the purpose of an HTPC as it's usually supposed to be a sort of thin client streaming media from your server or saving media to said server. 

buguludusler

November 08, 2011 at 2:34am

Thank you. Good post.

Wingzero_x

November 08, 2011 at 1:58am

I guess you haven't heard, but onboard audio sucks and it's even stupid because it's not 9.2 surround

Well that's what I heard any way.

limitbreaker

November 07, 2011 at 8:08pm

who in their right mind would spend 1500$ for a HTPC? i understand its for gaming also but it's kind of overkill. Most people (me) would build their HTPC out of spare parts. Get your butts off the couch and go use your 1500$ on a nice vacation! your HTPC can wait until you can salvage a pc from spare parts!

Engelsstaub

November 07, 2011 at 7:47pm

 

I love the chassis.

Wish it came out to around a grand, but the parts are worth it I suppose.

Does anybody know a good way to play a BluRay on Windows Media Player that doesn't involve spending a hundred bucks on some "codec" shit? I absolutely loathe CyberLink's crapware. Also don't want to always have to circumvent BD DRM to watch a movie I own...although I will.

 

dgrmouse

November 07, 2011 at 5:54pm

MSI’s Twin Frozr II uses roughly twice as much power as the system's CPU.  I'm not saying it should be disqualified, but you really shouldn't let NVidia off the hook so easily.  Either it's time for a die shrink and more efficient graphics cards, or it's time for onboard graphics in a lot more applications.

Righteous Fury

November 07, 2011 at 3:30pm

And what if i want all the blu-ray goodness, gaming goodness AND want to flip over to to some cable goodness as well?

Slurpy

November 07, 2011 at 3:27pm

I like how $220 was dropped on an unnecessary, if nice to have, SSD, while replacing the stock Intel cooler with something quieter wasn't deemed necessary.  It's not super-noisy, but if I had to choose, I'd rather deal with regular HDD load times than the extra noise.

 

Of course, running with the OS on an SSD means no clicking noises. . .

Danthrax66

November 07, 2011 at 3:11pm

Too bad HDD are through the fucking roof in price right now.

TechNinja49

November 07, 2011 at 2:22pm

You guys could have found some cheaper RAM, but overall it's looking good! I have but one question left: can it run Crysis? :P