Silly me I just found out my mistake.

The power cable to my subwoofer was accidentally loosen.

Now all is ok

Hi,

I am planning to get a HTPC for my living room, totally newbie here.

Wont be using it to download movies, just watch movies downloaded from other PC, stream dramas from website, Youtube, etc.. Maybe some surfing as well.

Is this sufficient for my use?

INTEL NUC DN2820FYKH:
• INTEL Celeron N2820 Dual-Core 2.4GHz Processor
• INTEL Express Chipset
• Integrated INTEL HD Display
• Display Port: 1xHDMI
• Integrated INTEL HD Audio CODEC with 8-Channel
• 1xSO-DIMM DDR3L-1600, 1xMini-PCIe Half Size
• 1xSATA2.0 3Gbps, 1xUSB3.0, 2xUSB2.0, 1xGigabit LAN, 1xWiFi-N+Bluetooth, 1xInfraRed
• NUC Form Factor Casing 116mm x 112mm x 51mm with External 36W Power Adapter

moving my htpc from raspberry pi to m-itx... spend around RM800 for Bay Trail D setup excluding the SSD

Hi,

Anybody can recommend me any shop or person to build htpc. May I know what is the latest and best spec for it. If have second hand htpc for sale also ok just let me know the spec and price. Tqvm

Hi,

Anybody use graffic card sapphire R7 260x overclock for HTPC. Is it stable coz last time I heard have probs with the audio bitstream. Please help me. Thank you.

seems no one to border..i'm not expert or else i will give my feedback

will depend heavily on your usage. if you're gonna use it for playing media and run it 24/7 for downloading, you would want a low power consumption htpc. a high speed processor with lots of lots of ram and high performance graphics would mean $hit for htpc. the main latency is from IO access. multiplied if you put in more than a couple of drives.

rather than scaling it based on specs, or price, it's better to scale a htpc on power. not processing power, but power consumption.
htpc could be scaled from 8W setup up to more than 200W setup. won't matter much if you run it for 2 hours a day watching movies. but if you turn it 24/7, it's the difference between paying RM1.7 to run it for 30 days, or paying RM43.2 to run it for that same timespan (electricity cost).

the r7 series used to have this driver issues with bitstreaming lossless audio. it's intermittent but it's annoying as hell.
gun to my head, i think the gtx 750 ti is better than the r7 or r9 series for htpc use. it's low power, doesn't require external power from psu (less strain on psu), better driver support, better video playback support, h265 hevc hardware acceleration, better processing power for video post processing algorithms, better madvr implementation and support.

it's better in a lot of aspects compared to r7 260 or even r7 265.

this graph don't mean shit if you don't pay for your electricity, but for the rest of humanity this must be considered.

less power, less heat output, less requirement for active cooling, less chance of heat related failure, higher reliability, less heat dissipation to environment, less cooling costs if you're in the same room.
it's extensively tested by anandtech. link here.

almost bought one for testing purposes. but jayacom quoted me pretty cheap price for 4tb drives. storage > audio. so went home with a couple more terabytes.
tho i have absolutely no idea if they're any good, if the audio is miles better compared to hd7790 or r7 265 or if they're crap compared to ati radeons. someone should dump RM500 and test them. i would, if i had my audio setup working.

Can anyone teach me how to do DTS passthrough for VLC player on windows 8.1 via HDMI? I have tried the stuffs on google but it still doesnt work..... either no sound or PCM.

Anyone can help? By the way i am using a lenovo z510 to connect.... 740m, windows 8.1, VLC Player......

Mind to try another player ma ? FullPlayer 8.2

Working fine for me ... VLC aslo boh prb but still FullPlayer easier to use

hi bro..

just curious if this combination allows to power up the htpc from a cold start..

Thanks.... Will try it out....

Alright stupid question.

How do i connect a HTPC > Speakers > HDTV? Assume that i use this speaker.

http://www.edifier-international.com/produ...timedia/m3300sf.

I want to be able to use the HTPC with speakers without tv being on sometimes.

This post has been edited by justordinary: Aug 21 2014, 10:46 AM

Just plug the audio jack from speakers directly to your HTPC. Your TV just plug the HDMI into HTPC.

If wrong please advice

Guys and sifus,

I needs to setup a 24/7 tiny server running on win7, apache and VMWARE (ubuntu). which i am demanding stability over performance.

- Budget RM500-700max,
- RAM 4Gb-8Gb,
- CPU should better then Intel Atom D2700 (benchmark 800),
- Hardisk exclude from budget
- power saving and small size
- display doesn't care

Currently I having this in my list:
1) Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 Celeron® 1017U
2) INTEL NUC DN2820FYKH

You guys thinks which is better?

main question is what you're gonna use them for. if basic media playback then surely you don't need to plug an 8 core (albeit 4 weak ones) amd bulldozer for it. but if the tiny server is expected to handle media playback, media server and transcoding then >4 core would probably help.

i have the atom d2800. it's pretty weak. dual core 4 thread, but don't expect it to do much background work simultaneously. you could run it as NAS, or media playback, but not both. and certainly not when playing back vc1 bdrips and handling parity calculation at the background.

if you're planning for a 24/7 media server + torrent + download + media playback and want it to run 365 day without burning through electricity, i suggest you take a look at the newer celeron J1900.
benchmarked to use less power compared to 32nm atom (n2700 included, probably even better than my low power n2800 also). some test shows it having comparable (or even higher performance) compared to intel avoton. and it's cheap to begin with. most board supports USB3.0 out of the box. easy to connect more hdd and expand the storage.

hi guys. planning on building a HTPC with a budget 2k.

purpose is mainly for 1080p movies. no gaming intended.
maybe might want to use it to download movies and stream once a while but wont be heavy

still new in this htpc thing. would certainly appreciate if someone could give a guide on building one.

please include wireless keyboard and remote control into the budget if possible

what os u plan to run?

windows would be best right?

good tool.

can this one be used for switch on/sleep mode for HTPC nuc ?