From my couch, I literally cannot hear it. At all. My media center dropped to dead silent. (I already use a fanless psu, so I've been waiting for this). Very happy
As to Ceton, yeah, one of the coolest toys ever. Getting full cable into my mediacenter all through a media center remote? Brilliant. And its amazing how few places actually use the broadcast flags, so quick snip of commercials and convert to mkv.. Easy. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Stan Zaske" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:10:47 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Corsair H50.. impressed I've read a lot of good things about the H50 myself and I believe Corsair is due to bring out an H60 soon that is between it and the H70 which most users complain of being too noisy. On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:22:39 -0600, <[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 :) -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
