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| Tue, Dec 11 2012 | 4:03PM | Filed under: Operating System| PermaLink |
Posted by: STAFF
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"Enough about software, let’s talk about Hardware. Hardware
wise, building a Home Theater PC is a completely different animal
compared to building a gaming rig or distributed computing machine.
Simply put, we’re building a PC that will connect to a TV, be
controlled by a remote control and pump audio and video to your home
theater. Normally important factors like cost, performance and heat,
take a back seat in a HTPC, to two often ignored factors, power
efficiency and noise. Things like cost, performance and heat
generally are not an issue with a HTPC because we don’t need use
cutting edge components to do what we want. We just need a solid
machine that can run for long periods of time without breaking the
bank in power costs. I liken it to a game machine being a
thoroughbred racehorse and a HTPC being a work horse that just does
what needs to be done without a whole lot of fuss."
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