Recent content by bpatterson07

Not sure where you are shopping but those prices are horrible. A quick look and it's much cheaper here, and you could use better alternatives in some areas. PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2tfSQ Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2tfSQ/by_merchant/...

I had another thread opened to look at advice on the system build, you can check it here if you would like: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/advice-on-new-htpc-budget-build.196244/

This is the one I ordered: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RORMF6/?tag=tec06d-20 Physically looking at the drive, model is WD30EZRX

How can I check if I have a newer green drive?

Thank you for the feedback everyone. My wife has helped once I showed her the little black box versus the current big ugly tower. I'll be doing a new build it seems for aeshetics and noise.

What would you recommend for the memory? 4g or 8g? Speeds? Could you recommend something specific that would go well with the APU?

Thanks everyone for the input. It seems 4gb of the lovo ram would be more than adequate. If I run into issues I have spare DIMM's anyway that are faster and of more capacity, but I don't foresee that need. It is disconcerting about the WD green drives. At least it's a headsup to mirror it elsewhere.

I'm just debating on the advantage of faster ram. From a gaming standpoint I can absolutely see the APU benefits, but for what I"m doing? I want this to be low power/noise/heat while performing admirably. It's not intended to a beast machine I want to overclock. I just don't see the need to go...

Hi Calaveras, what flavor of RAM would you recommend? I was also looking into these for CPU and case fans. Noctua NF-R8 PWM http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006GD30UC/?tag=tec06d-20 Noctua NH-L9A CPU http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009VY1R9O/?tag=tec06d-20

Not really concerned with gaming, just torrents and XBMC. Don't really need the Wi-Fi on the mobo. Is the RAM quick enough? Will be running W7 64-bit and have 3tb WD green for storage. Any recommendations to swap components out? Everything compatible? Kingston Digital 60GB SSDNow V300 SATA 3...

After a bit more research, thoughts on these components and moving only the 2 HDD's over from harvest possibly? I do have everything in a tower now which isn't ideal... $79.99 Antec ISK 300-150 Mini-ITX http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035FIS2O/?tag=tec06d-20 $69.99 A6-6400K...

Just seems a waste sort of throwing a bunch of money at it. I do nothing on it but torrent and XBMC. :Literally nothing else as I have other PC's for those purposes. The tower is done and quiet. Intel D875PBZ mobo Intel P4 3.2ghz 2gb ddr400 ram HIS Radeon HD 4670 agp 1 Sata 80gb primary 1 IDE...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to build a home HTPC. I have the 4670 AGP card, ram, processor, HDD's, and all other components required. Due to the limitations of the current Intel mobo (only P4, 2gb ram, and doesn't recognize large storage) I'd like to upgrade the mobo. It seems through research...