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Does anyone sell complete HTPC's?

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Flake:
Well as I look at this thing, it only has one ethernet port.  I want to incorporate this thing into a windows home server unit in the basement.  How does one connect this thing to the internet AND to my server?  Can access to both go through one ethernet cable? 

If so how would that work? 

For instance, lets say I have AT&T uverse internet coming into the basement.  All my ethernet ports (2 for each room) are running from each room down to the basement where the internet services comes in.  If I were to place my server in the basement next to the centralized ethernet ports and internet service, what would be the recommended connections/setup for all rooms to have access to both the internet and server via wired connection and have the best possible speed to each?

BobA:
You connect to your internet through a router.   The router connects to your cable modem or other provider device.  All devices in your home connect via the router either wired or wireless.  Thus you only need one ethernet cable connection.

Benevolance:
I have an Acer Revo as my HTPC in the great room. I am very happy with it. I also picked up a couple Xbox 360 PC controllers, so the HTPC doubles as my retro-gaming console, as well. It also runs Sins of a Solar Empire very well. Not that the required specs on that game are uber high, but it's a newish game and the Revo runs it perfectly.


--- Quote ---I want to be able to surf the net on my TV, listen to my MP3's through my soundbar, playback ripped DVD's, possibly watch Blue Ray movies, stream Netflix movies, watch digital home movies, digital photo slide shows, etc
--- End quote ---

The Acer Revo will do all of that very well. Just so it's clear: it doesn't have an optical drive. You could always buy an external DVD/CD drive if that's important. A free option is to map a network drive to another computer's cd/dvd drive in the house. We stream HD content on the local network wirelessly to the HTPC and the playback is pretty much flawless.

pinballwizard79:
Plug the GPU to the MB, plug the HD to the MB, pop the ram into the MB, plug in the BRD player, plug in all the PS wires to the MB....power it up, load the OS, DL the drivers & BAM you have your HTPC

www.newegg.com

I am horrible with computers though

Flake:

--- Quote from: Benevolance on October 14, 2010, 06:00:20 pm ---I also picked up a couple Xbox 360 PC controllers, so the HTPC doubles as my retro-gaming console, as well.

--- End quote ---

So you run Mame off this thing?  Are you streaming it or are you running the games locally?

BTW - thanks to PBW79 for the detailed computer building instructions  ;D

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