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Anyone built a HTPC?


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I'm thinking of building one. I watch a ton of anime fansubs using the .mkv container, and they are usually soft-subs with avc1 video at 720p which won't work on an xbox with xbmc because it is too underpowered. I am also thinking about spending a bit more, and making adding a blu-ray drive so I can finally have a blu-ray player. I'm curious if anyone has built one, and what type of components you used and costs did you have?

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This probably won't be much help, but in our lab we build our own PCs from scratch since we need some pretty unique parts and lots of graphical power. I thought it was gonna be a huge hassle, and I had little to no knowledge about 'building' computers going in but it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be. So I would guess that if you have a little knowledge going in, which it seems you do. You should be fine.

Not quite what you were looking for, but some insight at least.

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I thought about buying one of the WD devices before, but the first model is seriously lacking in features. I'll check out the XBMC forums, thanks Kirby.

I'm hoping that one I posted above has wifi too, if it does, sold! But I really want something that'll still run XBMC -- I can't get enough of that program!

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I thought about buying one of the WD devices before, but the first model is seriously lacking in features. I'll check out the XBMC forums, thanks Kirby.

I'm hoping that one I posted above has wifi too, if it does, sold! But I really want something that'll still run XBMC -- I can't get enough of that program!

XBMC is a beautiful piece of software. It was the only reason I still used my xbox until recently.

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