$250 being the price of the Popcorn Hour, is it possible to build something better for that price? Requirements: 1. It should send both audio and video through HDMI 2. Has to be silent 3. Has to be powerful enough to play anything at 1080p (most of my stuff is x264, but it should be powerful enough ...

nice, I'm definately looking forward to this article

You don't really need the top fan imo - I prefer simple, front to back airflow :) Around 800RPM should be enough for the exhaust fan, but I'd go up to around max speed on the intake, as it'll be providing air for the GFX and CPU. It's far enough into the case that you probably won't hear it too much...

A quad core is better than a dual core for multitasking. Unless the program is optimized to use 4 cores, a faster dual core is better for that single program. However, once you start running multiple programs at once, the performance will fall slower on a Quad than a Dual. Therefore, if you mainly g...

ok, thanks guys

So, I'm go to the US next week, where the price for hardware is half the price of Norway. I'm planning on buying an HD4850 and an Accelero S1. The question is: will a Corsair VX450W be enough to power this? I see a lot of people here have 4850s and VX450Ws, so there has to be someone with both, righ...

Go for a 4850 instead of the 9600.

According to Nexus themselves, the angle creates "a perfect flow over the motherboard."

If we take a look at the upcoming Nehalem motherboards (this is the only one I've seen), it looks like it should bring some more air over the Northbridge.

Currently listening to the new Metallica album, Death Magnetic.