Building a HTPC
 

Instead of integrating my gaming pc into my home theatre i've decided to build one since i have so much hardware just hanging around. Feel free to comment or suggest. This pc is for my music and blue ray movies. Using a 55" Samsung lcd via HDMI through my Sherwood 7.1 surround system. Is the 5850 overkill for a ht setup?

Case (on its way) - Lian-Li
CPU - i5 661
GPU - Radeon HD5850
Motherboard - MSI H55-GD65
HD - OCZ Vertex ssd for the OS. Other files will go on a external hdd.
Ram and psu i have are plenty to run this setup.

Cool, What case did you go with

Overkill is what it is all about .............. :thumbsup:

I run a i950 and a 280 for e-mail and Office .. :laughing:

Wow, dam sexy, gotta love Lian Li

Best availible IMO

Can't get any cheaper than this lol... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4spLDtzkgk

:laughing:

Gots to have me one of dem

Ok got a problem. I'm using the HDMI output on my HD5850. I have it going into my Home theatre reciever and out to my LCD. I get a picture but i get no sound out of the reciever. I had the same problem with my Playstation and i ended up using the optical out for sound. But shouldn't i be able to get my sound from the HDMI through my reciever?

ATI's HDMI driver is a POS

I have read about many having the same problem on other forums ....

Maybee try a different one and if no luck I would call the bastards up if for no other reason to tell them their drivers blow ....

Hit an miss from what I have seen

I guess i'll have to use the optical out from the motherboard.

Have you tried to uninstall sound drivers under device manager then reboot and let windows refresh the drivers on startup? I loose sound every once in a while through my htpc with a 4670 and that fixes the sound loss issue everytime.