Asked you several questions. Please respond kindly..cheerio

yes it is

WOW... this fellow Win 7 "NEVER CRASH BEFORE" ....

I'm impressed....

Bill Gates & Microsoft would be very proud of you... the should send you a "user award" for your statement..

any1 have an idea where i can get

Hauppauge 150 MCE TV Tuner card

Hello guys, just decided to post a bit about a recent purchase.

After contemplating getting a HTPC to connect to my living room screen, options were scarce. Custom-built or a Dell Inspiron Zino HD which costed RM999 for the base model.

So I went to Digital Mall to see what I can custom build, but ending up getting poisoned by the superior performance of the ASRock.

Here are some pictures.



My inventory. ASRock HT-100, 2x2GB Mushkin Enhanced 1333MHz DDR3, 1x500GB WD Scorpio Blue 5400rpm, Rapoo 2900 Touch wireless keyboard & mouse combo.



Contents of the ASRock's box. The PC itself, power adapter, DVI to VGA, documentation, extra connector cables, anti-slip pad for placing on your desk, and the media center remote.



The Rapoo Touch 2900 keyboard. Minimalist design & packaging.



Keyboard.

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So far this unit has been really good to me. Tried playing performance-intensive games like Need for Speed: Shift & Need for Speed: Carbon, nothing short of excellent performance. Viewing movies is really great too - somehow it manages to fit the input video to a 720p resolution.

One problem though, I don't know how to push it (the resolution) to 1080p.

So, yup, there you go. A happy customer.

EDIT: Noticed the pictures are a little big, if anyone knows how to resize with BBcode, please do tell me. And disregard the watermark, it was added in Lightroom batch processing

This post has been edited by TheWandererX: Dec 30 2010, 03:02 PM

TheWandererX, Welcome here.....
Nice picture. another good shot to share, thank you

I like your keyboard....

This post has been edited by djlah: Dec 30 2010, 03:13 PM

Thanks for the welcome.

Anyway, the keyboard cost RM150. Steep price for a wireless keyboard & mouse combo, but well worth it for its design and aesthetics.

How much the ASRock? i saw like 13++

hey U have the same Rapoo K/board as mine I hook it up to my ZinoHD kekeke

Yup, I got it for RM1350. There's a forumer selling it at RM1380.

Haha, the shop assistant recommended me to get it so I thought why not and just got it.

This post has been edited by TheWandererX: Dec 30 2010, 04:10 PM

can anyone recommend any good software to catalogue mkv, bdmv movies which are in several hdd?

i'm trying out 'Movie Label 2011' now

What spec is that ASrock? Does it comes with CPU, RAM and HDD? The reason I ask is, the info is not at the ASrock website and I saw you buy RAM and HDD.

Well, for me its good old fashion MS Excel...and yes, it does take a lot of time..
Got over a thousand list and growing..so i need to update it weekly.

Maybe I'll try 'Movie Label 2011' like you said.

It's just like a notebook, actually. CPU, chipset etc all included. You have to get your own RAM and HDD though. That's all. 2GB RAM sticks cost about RM70 and a 500GB 5.4kRPM HDD would cost about RM150.

Whoa... below RM1.7k can kow-tim

This post has been edited by RayKazansky: Dec 30 2010, 05:15 PM

Can this asrock be connected to crt tv?

Anyone who uses XBMC can automatically trigger TMT3 to play blu-ray folder instead of going through the context menu?

Haha, yeah.

My guess is yes - there is VGA and HDMI, then there's a DVI to VGA converter just in caes.

There's one shop carrying Hauppauge products at Lowyat. I think it's on the second floor.

Thank you for sharing your new purchase, TheWandererX. Could you also share your software configuration ?