I've been doing a LOT of reading in the hard forums lately. That is one
popular cooler for sure. The hard-core overclockers seem to use it
along with a bunch of fans, too.
Boy that is one sweet box you've built. Living room systems need to be
quiet! 4 tuners!!!!! I see those guys on Tekzilla / HD Nation raving
about that CETON card. Enjoy.
On 2/6/2011 1:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I normally am not a big believer in these all in one kits. But I've
been using a zalman kit in my living room for my media center, but
it's been noisy and hasn't really held down the temperatures on my
Phenom X6/1055. But I found one of these H50s at Microcenter near me
for $59. I decided to take a gamble on it, and I have to admit, I am
really surprised. Temperatures, even at full load (encoding to x264
from VC1) stays under 48C, which is about a 12 degree advantage on the
Zalman, but more importantly, suddenly my media center is DEAD quiet.
I've slowly finally configured the media center the way I wanted. I'm
using a Ceton Cable Card controller, so I get 4 tuners that way, and
then extra ATSC through a SiliconDust. I'm using a Radeon 5670 for
video.
Bluray playback is solid, game performance is more then managable, and
I power out all my extenders with ease. I'm running Win7Pro x64,
with 16GB RAM at the moment.. normally I'd say "what a waste" but RAM
was so damn cheap I didn't have to sweat it. But easily, the two best
buys were the CETON and the H50. I am 100% sold on these, as long as
it stays working :)
