HTPC advice

[antrock101]

hey guys,

I'm building a HTPC out of my old hardware and mythbuntu. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a gfx and motherboard that will support sound to tv via HDMI, my current board, GIGABYTE GAM61SME-S2 doesn't seem to support this. The board has a AM2 socket processor and i'm running 4 gb of ram. I'm also looking for a supported remote control it seems my ebay Taiwan jobby is not doing the trick

PS have the price of hard drives shot up recently they seem a lot higher than they were?

Regards Ant

 

[antrock101]

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-020-OP

this is the case i'm using btw

 

[antrock101]

if thats the case would I just need a hdmi gfx card?

 

[antrock101]

I agree no noise is good, i'm going to go for a water-cooling cpu attachment as there very quite or a maybe a big heat sink cooler not decided although not a lot of space in that case

 

[antrock101]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-046-HS
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-020-OP

good call?

so annoyed about hard drive cost, I have about 100 dvds to rip onto it to recover my book shelf for.......books could have done with at least a 1 tb

might aswell get a blueray drive as this is costing a lot less than i thought

 

[antrock101]

does it have a psu in that case i linked

 

[antrock101]

also do i have to hook the gfx card up to the motherboard in any diffrent way for sound?

 

[antrock101]

can anyone suggest a psu i need for the opera one, it seems theres one in there according to the comments that's why I'm confused

 

[antrock101]

nice case doesn't fit my board tho

 

[antrock101]

alll done and working, gotta say that opera case is good looking but it's a horrible build nothing fits. Only problem now is the noise from the cpu and psu fan's and suggestions on passive. Also how the hell do u take out the built in psu :S

 

[antrock101]

any cheap recommends?