hi Neil, Thanx for your reply. I already dropped from 525 Watts to 400 Watts. And being fanless, I guessed: not using all the power = not heating it up all the way. I know a PSU is more efficient if you match the load and the max a PSU can produce. But dropping to 300 Watt (fanless) is a risk(in my ...

Very little response...... So it must be a very good config or...... Anyway, I ordered all the components yesterday, a little different than mentioned above: AMD Athlon 64 X2 BE-2400 Club 3D ATI 3650 Heatpipe DDR2 2DVI 512Mb DX10 GEIL DDR2 2GB 800Mhz Black Dragon (2X1GB) PC2 6400 4-4-4-12 8 layer Gi...

Congratulations!!!

I just noticed I am too late.....

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Hello everybody. I am thinking of building my own HTPC with the following components. I hope to receive some comments(positive or negative) about it. Especially the motherboard is a gamble for me. I picked it for it's passive cooling and having no on board video and having firewire for a future flop...