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Watching 10 bit anime on flatscreen TV's ***GUIDE***
kitamesume:
^exactly, but the main point why it bloated that much are those nessessities like having to be fanless and such.
well the 80W psu is a pico PSU, which tends to play at around 40-60$, 70+$ for wide voltage input meaning you can use batteries to run them, provided that the batteries can supply the amperage.
i already noted that if you cut the crap about the other stuffs it could go 300$ish, or around 300$-400$.
Bob2004:
Even silent should still be a lot cheaper than that. Or, at least quiet enough that you can't hear it when it's on the other side of the room from you, by the TV. A WD Green conventional hard drive (one of the AV versions preferably, since they're slightly more reliable in my experience) is near silent, and you should be able to get a quiet fanless CPU and GPU for a reasonable amount. The case/motherboard don't make so much difference to sound, so you can manage quite a bit cheaper on them without sacrificing quietness too.
You should be able to get a 200w or so ITX PSU which runs silently, or near enough, dirt cheap as well - though if you want to run it off batteries for some reason, I suppose that Pico PSU would be better (assuming 80w is powerful enough, which I'm not sure about).
vuzedome:
I wouldn't do 80W, just get a decent PSU, even the cheapo ones are silent enough.
NaRu:
Why would anyone need a silent HTPC anyways.If you use the stock cooler from Intel, those fans don't make that much noise and PSU also doesn't make much noise. If you get a sandy bridge CPU you don't need a GPU because the CPU would be able to output 1080p video with ease.
megido-rev.M:
Total silence is not entirely necessary for all the components anyway. If they're quiet (i.e. rush air at worst), and the machine's not right next to one's face, the only place the noise is audible is in a quiet acoustic room. Audio playback would mask the noise as well.
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