Whoohoo Just won a 400GB Drive

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:28 pm

How do you get the time to watch all those TV-shows?

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:41 pm

Grudge wrote:How do you get the time to watch all those TV-shows?

Best part about the Media Center PC is the skip buttons

Skip ahead is 30 seconds (usually the length on 1 commercial)
Skip back is 5 seconds (in-case I go too far)

I can skip all the commercials in about 3 seconds

a 1 hour show is only about 35 - 38 minutes a 1/2 hour is about 18 - 20 minutes without commercials. Then there are always shows we have seen already which we just delete.

After work, dinner and a walk my wife and I hit the couch and watch some TV. We eventually get through them all... eventually. Especially when a series goes into season we have watched already.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:47 pm

thats pretty sexy

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:03 pm

MKJ wrote:thats pretty sexy

Yup nicest looking HTPC case IMO, but not the quietest. For a $255.00 HTPC case this thing should not make a sound a all :icon33:

It comes with a noisey ass PSU and fans and no Hard drive dampening. It's been a long painfull road quieting this MOFO down but I am almost done.

1 silenx 8 dba fan
1 silenx 12 dba fan
1 silenx < 14 dba iXtrema Micro on order
1 Zalman 0 dba northbridge heatsync
1 Zalman 0 dba silent GPU cooler
1 Zalman Silent CPU Cooler
Fan control software (adjusts fan speed according to case and CPU temp)
All panels now covered with sound dampening material

I'm hoping to get this thing completely silen when I am through. Right now you can barely hear it from the couch and only when it's a quiet part of the movie/TV show.

Post by **Canis** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:44 pm

Watch him be so disappointed when he finds they made a typo, and it's only 40GB as opposed to 400GB.

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:18 pm

Why does every god damn forum require image verification?

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:29 pm

My drive arrived yesterday 372gig of SATS sweetness

Hey CONGRATS to inphlict for winning a prize in the Memory contest :icon32:

Post by **Bdw3** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:33 pm

372....
It's about time HDD companies started using proper computer math. :icon33:

Congrats to the both of you. btw.

Post by **o'dium** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:35 pm

Yeah, what a bitch, 400 down to 372, 28gig gone due to rounding errors...

Thats a lot of error...

Post by **Fender** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:41 pm

7% error is fairly significant in my book.

Post by **Don Carlos** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:51 pm

MKJ wrote:400gb? jesus

Post by **4g3nt_Smith** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:46 pm

Its not an error, its just the different ways a gigabyte is interpreted. HD maker say its 1,000 MB, whilst everyone else says its 1,024 MB.