Soldato
- Joined
- 16 May 2004
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- Derby
Hi there,
My girlfriend and I are currently planning to renovate our home. She is seeing to all the design and furnishing etc where as I am assigned to the home entertainment aspect of it all.
I currently own the Xbox 360 (with HD DVD plaer add-on), a fairly good PC, Full 6.1 surround and the HD72i HD projector and screen.
I am currently streaming HD material and various other programs/movies from my PC (upstairs) useing XPMCE to my 360 and onto my PJ. I am looking to design/build myself a HTPC to use downstairs, as to free up my main PC for normal use (streaming downstairs and using upstairs at the same time puts some strain on it).
I would like some pointers and specs on what sort of components are needed to makes such a HTPC that looks nice and does what I will need it to do. Im not clued up as to what mobo,cpu and graphics cards are needed, as I havent upgraded for a few years.
I would also like to have some sort of audio set up running from my PC, doesnt matter what one, the main PC or the new soon to be HTPC, so I can losten to music in other rooms. I would be going for some good quality ceiling speakers to put in the bathroom and bedrooms. These would need to be wired to one of the PC`s.
I hope you can help me out here. If you need some more information please let me know.
My girlfriend and I are currently planning to renovate our home. She is seeing to all the design and furnishing etc where as I am assigned to the home entertainment aspect of it all.
I currently own the Xbox 360 (with HD DVD plaer add-on), a fairly good PC, Full 6.1 surround and the HD72i HD projector and screen.
I am currently streaming HD material and various other programs/movies from my PC (upstairs) useing XPMCE to my 360 and onto my PJ. I am looking to design/build myself a HTPC to use downstairs, as to free up my main PC for normal use (streaming downstairs and using upstairs at the same time puts some strain on it).
I would like some pointers and specs on what sort of components are needed to makes such a HTPC that looks nice and does what I will need it to do. Im not clued up as to what mobo,cpu and graphics cards are needed, as I havent upgraded for a few years.
I would also like to have some sort of audio set up running from my PC, doesnt matter what one, the main PC or the new soon to be HTPC, so I can losten to music in other rooms. I would be going for some good quality ceiling speakers to put in the bathroom and bedrooms. These would need to be wired to one of the PC`s.
I hope you can help me out here. If you need some more information please let me know.
