My Home Theater

In December of 2007 I built my own HTPC. After reviewing the HTPCs available commercially and reviewing many forums dealing with building your own HTPC I decied to take the plunge. My HTPC is enclosed in a Thermaltake Bach case with an ASUS P5K Deluxe motherboard, Intell Duo Core E6750 2.66 chip, 2048 MB Corsair memory, Nvidia 8600 GTS graphics card, a standard DVD drive, and a Sony BD-ROM BDU X-100 Blu Ray drive.. I replaced the cooling fan on the graphics card with a heat sink and replaced the standard CPU cooling fan with a Thermaltake 90 mm silent fan.

The HTPC was connected through a 3 year old JVC 420B receiver but I just replaced it with a Yamaha RX V463 reciever which now enabled me to play Blu-Ray discs that the older JVC refused to recognize. The TV is a 3 year old Samsung 61 inch DLP equipped with Polk Audio speakers and subwoofer. I am running Windows XP SP2 with Media Player and Cybelink Ultra software.