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Posted on: 2013/10/15 14:12

Re: Video Playback HTPC #11

As I said, I'm really curious what you have to say! I have never had the chance to play with an SSHD and it's well possible that I'm too hard on these things.
Sequentials aren't the things I would be worried about, it's the tasks that demand random performance.
I'm really curious about your feedback!

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Posted on: 2013/10/15 14:27

Re: Video Playback HTPC #12

Yeah I guess in synthetic benchmarks it does well. Lets see in daily use

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Posted on: 2013/10/15 14:50

Re: Video Playback HTPC #13

Just realised the case has a 2.5" drive cage and I ordered a 3.5" drive

Fail...

Gonna cancel the order and RAID two Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS I already have instead.

Edited by Christian Ney on 2013/10/15 15:08:49

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Posted on: 2013/10/15 18:03

Re: Video Playback HTPC #14

Just asked myself the following question "does sound card matter when using optical?".

I think the answer is "not really" since afaik the optical signal isn't been processed.

Update: I will use the onboard audio XD <you can shoot me right now>

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Posted on: 2013/10/15 20:40

Re: Video Playback HTPC #15

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Christian Ney wrote:
Just asked myself the following question "does sound card matter when using optical?".

I think the answer is "not really" since afaik the optical signal isn't been processed.

Update: I will use the onboard audio XD <you can shoot me right now>

Optical will give you decent quality. To your question: yes it matters, since the signal still needs to be processed and that process is never lossless.

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Posted on: 2013/10/15 21:14

Re: Video Playback HTPC #16

Optical/digital signal isn't being processed.

Edited by Christian Ney on 2013/10/22 6:53:59

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Posted on: 2013/10/16 11:39

Re: Video Playback HTPC #17

Look at what I found:

Play films with the highest quality – HTPC Windows

Looks like a very nice tutorial (available also in french here)

I think I will follow it.

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Posted on: 2013/10/16 12:26

Meet the SilverStone Milo ML05, the Mini-ITX HTC benchmark #18

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I took some decent pics:

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Posted on: 2013/10/16 14:55

Re: Video Playback HTPC #19

Stock cooler, bleah

Limitation of CPU cooler: 37~70mm

You need very low profile cooler

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Posted on: 2013/10/16 15:36

Re: Video Playback HTPC #20

Yeah I will mount the Noctua later on. I put the stock one to test with it first then the Noctua to test it too and then leave it.

2 Reviews in one :p

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