High-definition Heaven
So I made the plunge and bought all the bits required to build a media centre PC, and it's now sitting happily in the living room. We've tested out a few high-definition movies on it already, and it can play everything I've thrown at it perfectly - 1080p versions of Casino Royale, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Blade Trinity barely make the little beast blink. It's all wrapped up neatly in a HTPC case, which makes it look like an amp (explaining to Joey that our new amplifier is actually a PC was fun.)
It's as quiet as I'd like, too, even though there's a retail Intel fan, a NVidia graphics card fan, and two seperate 80mm case fans blowing away. I was expecting it to howl like the wind, but it's genuinely difficult to hear the thing, even if there's no other sound in the house. It really is a winner! I'm so glad we didn't opt for a Mac Mini - one would have cost slightly more money, and would have been a lot less powerful, would have had less storage, and wouldn't have been as upgradeable. To conclude, I'm very happy.
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