HTPC Project Part 2
I’ve been missing in action recently due to currently obsessing over my swanky new HTPC and waiting for the boneheads at Sony Service to get my notebook back to me and give me back my AC Adapter that I shipped in with the notebook (they ask you to do this).
At any rate, everything is mostly back in order and I can continue working on stuff.
So, back to the new HTPC. I had been discussing this heavily with one of my friends and I had been keen on setting up a Pentium M based HTPC. I figured Pentium M would give me excellent performance while allowing me to create a fairly quiet system. However, the pickings are slim for Pentium M motherboards and they’re extremely expensive. For the price of the Pentium M motherboard alone, I could get an Athlon 64 3000+ chip AND a brand new ATI Radeon Xpress 200 based motherboard.
I will be doing a full write up on my new HTPC and a smaller story on my first HTPC. Basically, I took the lessons learned from my first HTPC and applied it to my second HTPC. Of course, even now as I approach the completion of the second HTPC, I realized a lot of new things I hadn’t considered. Still, I’m extremely happy about this second HTPC as its working very well so far.
