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Monday, March 15, 2004

Building a (Silent) Home Theater PC for Around $1000

HTPC News: "This Guide will focus mainly on the hardware aspect of HTPC's while touching base on the software side of things. When looking to build an HTPC you have to keep in mind the various costs of extras that normally wouldn't be in a regular PC. These costs involve extras like silent case fans, CPU heat sinks, VGA coolers, rounded IDE cables, specialty cases, hardware capture devices, etc. If you get anything out of this guide, I hope that it is the fact that an HTPC is something you will want to be as quiet as possible. Almost every feature in this guide focuses on keeping the machine silent! For the most part, you could consider this guide as one for building a blazing fast silent machine. It just happens that it's an HTPC that we are building."

I've been on a crusade for silent PCs for years, and this guide is good stuff.

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