Media machine for living room?

[Detale]

Price mostly. It's a great solution for a very reasonable price. For me it was exactly what I was looking for.

[Skiz]

I looked at the EEE machine Snee. They all have Intel Atom processors and I don't see how those will run 1080. I have an Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz) in my netbook and it's not all that fast just browsing. I can't even watch YouTube "HD" with it.

I like the Dell Zino, but its more than I want to spend. It's absolutely ideal tho'.

I don't think I'm going to be able to find what I want for what I'm willing to spend.

[ckrit]

It's a dual core atom combined with an ion chip, mang.

I think he looked at the EB1501.

It might have issues with downsampling, if you want to play hd content on a lower res, dunno, but playing full hd works, according to asus and a bunch of people at different forums.

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[Skiz]

Could you maybe expand on that first sentence as I'm a bit confused? I've gone to the EEE Box website and looked at the 5 different models. It looks like the best processor is the Atom N270 1.6, which is the exact same as my netbook has, and it can't play anything close to HD. I also Googled around and read 3 or 4 reviews for them and every one said they were OK for internet and word processing but not much else. Not saying you're wrong or anything, but I'm just not seeing what you're seeing.

Also, I found this online and it looks pretty solid. I'd just need to buy a new HDD. - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tchlink:top:en

Thoughts on this one anyone?

[Snee]

Looks ok to me. I'd prolly want to change out the graphics card for a gt 240 or something, myself (similar performance but uses less power). I like the case, have considered it myself for a future project. If he's not managed to bork something it ought to be cool.


And the Atom in the new Eee box (also shown in the video I linked above) is called the 330 or something like that, it's a later model, I've no idea why it's not possible to see anything about it on the site, then, you can already order them from here. I had a look at your newegg earlier, though, and no Eee box using it is available there, yet, iirc. The MSI I was talking about uses the same one, I think.

Edit:

On second thought, I'd like to know more about what psu is in there, before I bought it, as well.

[Skiz]

It had a 300W psu. I put in a snipe of max $150 and it sold for $209 + $15 for shipping.

Back to the drawing board.

[Artemis]

If you are prepared to build a machine rather than buy a box then look at Zotac, they have a new series of atom based ITX boards using the NVidia ION chipset. This chipset is a huge advance over the Intel ICH7 based atom offerings, it supports dual channel RAM has an integrated NVidia 9400M IGP with DVI & HDMI connectors. The 9400M fully supports PureVideoHD so can
can decode HD codecs on the card. It also has wireless N built in:
http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx...therboard.html

and if you want a stunning case to wrap around the M/B you can't go past the Luxa2 mini 100:
http://www.luxa2.com/products/enclos...ni/design.html

all you need is RAM and a hard drive and your good to go

[Detale]

Well and a case, keyboard, and mouse as well

[Artemis]

Well and a case, keyboard, and mouse as well

errr no the case is listed in my last post speshal boi, or at least my suggestion on an excellent htpc case, and it includes a VFD display
and remote controller with the kit, so if it is purely a media PC then
the keyboard & mouse are strictly optional ?????? (apart from during the set up ofc)

[Detale]

YOU EDITED.... then slickly removed the "Last edited by Artemis" bit from the bottom! Well either that or I just missed that completely, damn I suck

What I will say is that remote sucks. The same one shipped with my Thermaltake DH-102 HTPC case and i hated the thing. I ended up getting this adesso wireless mini keyboard with a trackball on it. That worked out well



I also just looked up that case and it's nice and all but the cheapest version is $300