indyjones
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Right been busy over the weekend upgrading the HTPC.
So I have ended up with the following:
HTPC 1 (main living room machine)
Zalman HD160 Plus black case
Zalman 9500 Cooler
Tagan Modular PSU
Gigabyte EP45-DS3 motherboard
Intel E8200 CPU
ATI Sapphire ultimate (passive heatsink) HD2600XT
Black gold dual DVB-T tuner card
2 gig Kingston 8500 DDR2 ram
Phillips SRM 5100 remote control
ASUS HDAV1.3 Deluxe - sound card
LG hddvd/ bluray dvd drive
Vista Ultimate X86 with TV Pack
(Oh and 7.1 analouge speakers and a lovely 40" toshiba 1080P LCD)
With the bits left over I have built an extender for the master bedroom which will update later (had to do some creative wiring to extend the ir receiver)
So far almost so good the new cpu is great my case is still open but the heatsink fan has not span once yet! Its even cool to the touch.
Unfortunately I have had nothing but grief from the new sound card.
Firstly it has a HDMI/DVI pass though which it uses to enchance the image. Mow I am not sure if this is workign right, either that or I just can't tell the difference....
The version of arcsofts TMT is a crappy OEM one and I get the choice of using the one of the dvd which will not play new fox bluray titles or the newly released version which has had the vista media centre functionality removed!
Next problem the digital optical in is worthless I wanted to feed my XBOX360 in and upmix to 7.1. All I get is a horrible noise! I switched the xbox's output from DD to stereo and it did now for about 2 mins then back to distorted noise.
Finally (the reason I got it) Bluray sound decoding - this will be tested tonight and we will compaire it against the crappy onboard chip. If we can't hear a drastic improvement with the ASUS card I will try to send it back.
(LordofLA - if your around I know you have dealt with overclockers alot do you think I will be able to send my card back?)
Of course the sound card is updated with latest firmware/drivers/software
Will update the thread later with more news and pictures
So I have ended up with the following:
HTPC 1 (main living room machine)
Zalman HD160 Plus black case
Zalman 9500 Cooler
Tagan Modular PSU
Gigabyte EP45-DS3 motherboard
Intel E8200 CPU
ATI Sapphire ultimate (passive heatsink) HD2600XT
Black gold dual DVB-T tuner card
2 gig Kingston 8500 DDR2 ram
Phillips SRM 5100 remote control
ASUS HDAV1.3 Deluxe - sound card
LG hddvd/ bluray dvd drive
Vista Ultimate X86 with TV Pack
(Oh and 7.1 analouge speakers and a lovely 40" toshiba 1080P LCD)
With the bits left over I have built an extender for the master bedroom which will update later (had to do some creative wiring to extend the ir receiver)
So far almost so good the new cpu is great my case is still open but the heatsink fan has not span once yet! Its even cool to the touch.
Unfortunately I have had nothing but grief from the new sound card.
Firstly it has a HDMI/DVI pass though which it uses to enchance the image. Mow I am not sure if this is workign right, either that or I just can't tell the difference....
The version of arcsofts TMT is a crappy OEM one and I get the choice of using the one of the dvd which will not play new fox bluray titles or the newly released version which has had the vista media centre functionality removed!
Next problem the digital optical in is worthless I wanted to feed my XBOX360 in and upmix to 7.1. All I get is a horrible noise! I switched the xbox's output from DD to stereo and it did now for about 2 mins then back to distorted noise.
Finally (the reason I got it) Bluray sound decoding - this will be tested tonight and we will compaire it against the crappy onboard chip. If we can't hear a drastic improvement with the ASUS card I will try to send it back.
(LordofLA - if your around I know you have dealt with overclockers alot do you think I will be able to send my card back?)
Of course the sound card is updated with latest firmware/drivers/software
Will update the thread later with more news and pictures