YoHoJo
2012-03-27 03:42:59
http://lifehacker.com/5745937/roll-a-powerful-media-htpc-for-less-than-500HTPC Build Ideas!
Must be small(ish) and look decent (most likely black) and sexy, have powerful enough stuff to do 1080p videos etc whatever else you would need to do on it, make it quiet (either the parts themselves, or extra padding or whatever to help), make it at cheap as you can with just as much power needed to do it's job, no more no less!
Let's see how cheap we can get while still having it be able to do all it needs!
cause
2012-03-27 14:29:49
Get a Raspberry Pi! Supports 1080p and XBMC!
From: cause
Get a Raspberry Pi! Supports 1080p and XBMC!
nice board never heard of this till now cheers bud ive been using my original xbox with xbmc
but looks like im gonna be investing some cash into a new fun project :D
cause
2012-03-27 15:55:43
Pretty cool eh? Unfortunately you have to wait quite awhile before they're in stock again…
From: cause
Pretty cool eh? Unfortunately you have to wait quite awhile before they're in stock again…
Yeah. I'v been trying to get one of those for a while now..
Rasperry Pi for the win. Yohojo and it's only 35 USD (Best Model).
~Home
found a site that appears to have stock of these
http://www.redstore.com/OEMNET29Cwill let you guys know.
[XoL]
2012-03-27 20:34:31
That sight is pretty "weird", all the reviews are of complaints only a few said they get their products and don't want to return it.
Mr.Klean
2012-03-28 01:14:33
From: CRU1Z1N
found a site that appears to have stock of these http://www.redstore.com/OEMNET29C
will let you guys know.
Man that sites a pain in the arse to use.
I'm looking at getting one but redstore does not ship to US and without shipping it's already to $45…
When in stock I'm really looking to get one.
Mr.Klean
2012-03-29 15:34:12
Double post.
Looks like raspberry pi's are going to be hard to come by since now they have to go through CE testings…. That and the stupid high demand. They sold out the first day on pre-orders. Looks like US customers can pre-order them from element14 now. Model B only.(
http://us.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/raspberry-pi-model-b-board-only/dp/83T1943?Ntt=raspberry)
Mines ordered. They're unsure when they'll get out, the computer system auto generated the August backlog date but the raspberry pi website says that was an error.
Markus
2012-03-29 15:35:49
Get some AMD APU (Fusion is latest cool mumbo-jumbo?), they are great for this kind of stuff :D Decent CPU/GPU for your HTPC needs. Then get XBMC on it.
Cooling can be done passively if you got decent heatsink, RAM doesn't need its own cooling. And look for a nice case :)
cause
2012-03-30 00:34:27
YoHoJo
2012-03-30 00:57:43
Getting lots of ideas and help from the XBMC forum.
These things are awesome!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942
cause
2012-03-30 13:50:22
Cant go wrong, plays all COD's at max and 1920x1080
Even Crysis at High settings.
That's very impressive, I'd definitely consider one of these for my next build.