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I can't believe this thread is 6 years old, but I do have an update. In 2018, I bought a house and moved in, but nothing really changed with this HTPC. Recently, I've been trying to play 4k content through it, but it's struggling with HEVC (H.265) content.

Nvidia 10xx and newer have HEVC decoders built into the cards, so I bought a GT 1030 to do the heavy lifting when playing 4k content. The PC is also still running Windows 7, which is no longer supported. Since Kodi is designed for Linux, and I know Nvidia drivers usually work well, I'm going to give Ubuntu a shot instead of moving to Windows 10.

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Picture of the living room, including cat tax.

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I should have posted this earlier, but I ran cables into the basement for the rear speakers, so I don't have to run cabling along the baseboard.

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Somehow got the wires up into the wall and out the hole on the first try. I still have no idea how I did it.

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All together.

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All the speakers have banana plugs on them, now.

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What a weird cat.
 
Tell me how you like that 1030... The GPU in my old rig is flaky, always crashes after 20 minutes of any kind of 3d gaming. But it's just a Q9650 /w 8 GB RAM. Don't want to spend much replacing the HD6850 in it.
 
Tell me how you like that 1030... The GPU in my old rig is flaky, always crashes after 20 minutes of any kind of 3d gaming. But it's just a Q9650 /w 8 GB RAM. Don't want to spend much replacing the HD6850 in it.
I've been using the HTPC frequently since installing the card, and besides an Ubuntu issue, it has been working fine. Only downside I've found is 10/12 bit h.265 doesn't have hardware acceleration on Linux, but that isn't a fault of the card. I was worried I'd be able to hear the fan on the card, but I haven't noticed it yet, and the HTPC was already very quiet.
 
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Tell me how you like that 1030... The GPU in my old rig is flaky, always crashes after 20 minutes of any kind of 3d gaming. But it's just a Q9650 /w 8 GB RAM. Don't want to spend much replacing the HD6850 in it.

I used a low profile Gigabyte single slot GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 card in a small ITX a while back. Worked perfect in Win 8 and Win 10, and I couldn't hear the little fan at all.
 
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