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MOBO and CPU combo
- Thread starter aaron6817
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- Toronto, ON
I use a A10 5800K with Asrocks FM2A85X extreme 4-M and the combo works great.... but I am having audio problems with HDMI using Linux Mint 15. I don't believe it's the MOBO and I have yet to install windows. Still working on a solution with Linux.
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- Wakefield, QC
Totally depends what you want to do with your HTPC. Some guys want it to game like an Xbox. Personally I use it for XBMC only... movies, music, etc... If you don't want to game on it, pick a CPU with the lowest possible TDP so it will dissipate less heat and your HTPC will be quieter overall. I like mine when it does near to no noise. 
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I have a similar problem, and hopefully some ideas for you:
I recently killed my Asus AT3IONT-I motherboard with a 120 Volt short... this was a great MB for my HTPC. Fanless, enough power for full HD over HDMI, optical digital output etc.
It's hard to find a replacement--at least I cannot find one that's fanless and has HDMI. There are some Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combos out there with CPU fans, which could be replaced for a quieter one. The ones from Gigabyte appear to be well received. However, getting a mini-ITX w/o CPU and adding one is not necessarily that much more expensive, so also check that option.
In terms of OS, it depends what you want to do with it. I used mine only for Music and Videos, and running XBMC on it was just perfect for that. I used the XBMCbuntu distro, it's basically Ubuntu revamped to run only XBMC (right at boot time). If you can get your hands on a remote-control dongle for the original XBox, you can modify that to plug it into a USB port on the HTPC and thus get a remote-control. I did that, it was fairly simple to do (and cheap...)
I recently killed my Asus AT3IONT-I motherboard with a 120 Volt short... this was a great MB for my HTPC. Fanless, enough power for full HD over HDMI, optical digital output etc.
It's hard to find a replacement--at least I cannot find one that's fanless and has HDMI. There are some Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combos out there with CPU fans, which could be replaced for a quieter one. The ones from Gigabyte appear to be well received. However, getting a mini-ITX w/o CPU and adding one is not necessarily that much more expensive, so also check that option.
In terms of OS, it depends what you want to do with it. I used mine only for Music and Videos, and running XBMC on it was just perfect for that. I used the XBMCbuntu distro, it's basically Ubuntu revamped to run only XBMC (right at boot time). If you can get your hands on a remote-control dongle for the original XBox, you can modify that to plug it into a USB port on the HTPC and thus get a remote-control. I did that, it was fairly simple to do (and cheap...)
