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Hi everyone, this is my first post here.

I am a big fan of silent PCs, and basically visit SilentPCReview daily, but I have never contributed here. Finally there is something I can share that might be of interest to the members of this forum.

I have build a pretty much noiseless HTPC last year, and finally got around creating a blog post on it. Here it is:
http://csongor.fagyal.com/2011/05/15/si ... ased-htpc/

The hardware might be a bit old (first generation ION + Atom), but it's just enough for a (Linux) HTPC.

Some images:






Enjoy, and just ask if you need any particular details about the "design"

Very nice. Silent at last!

Shouldn't have any problems with 1080P playback since it has the ION GPU.

Very nice, your Da Godfather !!!
The 4Gb SSD look really nice for only 20dollars.

XBMC works ok for you? It crashes on my machines, but it's the only way I know to play commercial DVDs in Linux. I get suspend/resume freezing & video corruption.

Rebellious wrote:XBMC works ok for you? It crashes on my machines, but it's the only way I know to play commercial DVDs in Linux. I get suspend/resume freezing & video corruption.

XBMC should work with a proper video driver, but if not, you might try mplayer. I think it's "mplayer dvd://1" to play the first track. OTOH you can just grab your DVD-s and store them in ISO files so that you can play them from your hard drive, I find that much more convenient. (You can use e.g. DVDShrink - with wine if you use Linux - for copying.)

Other options for playing commercial DVD's include stand-alone programs mplayer and VLC, as well as other media center suites like Freevo, MythTV and VDR.