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    QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    If so, how well does it function? And if not, is it something you'd consider?
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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    LOL - 3 , a media PC and there's 2 gaming PC in here too. The days when I was confined to a bedroom are long gone. Does make a silent or very quiet machine more of a priority when other people use the room too though.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    My HTPC is epic and works perfectly (even for the wife)..

    Its basic specs are:
    A8-7600
    8Gb 2133mhz RAM
    64gb SSD boot
    2TB storage
    4 Freview HD tuners
    2 Freesat HD tuners
    Antec MicroFusion Remote 350 case
    X-fi Audio

    So what does it do well:
    Stores all our music and shares over the network
    all 6 tuners make a single EPG (Using DVBLink).
    Tuners accessible on devices in the house (PCs, phones etc).
    Plays DVD/Bluray/HD-DVDs.
    Outputs stereo surround on 7.1 system.
    Full database of all my films to browse which will point you to the disc (could rip them but don't want to).
    LCD display on case shows current programme/song/eq automatically depending on action.
    Hooked the youtube TV interface into media center.
    Auto film trailer downloads every night, with auto delete after 7 days.
    Works perfectly on 360 extenders. so have all the TV tuners without having to run aerial/satellite feeds all over.
    Perfect control with logitech harmony remote and rii mini i28 when keyboard and mouse is needed.

    I will say I don't use it for gaming, it could be used for in home streaming but when I moved in I installed a HDMI cable through the walls to the upstairs man cave so use that I use the PC upstairs on the TV downstairs.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Yeah, Silent water cooled gaming PC here too in the living room along with a silent HTPC running Kodi, then there's the Asus router with a NAS attached and set up to stream to the 20 year old Technics hifi along with the Vu+ Duo 2 Satellite which is also streaming to the network in the house and finally a 1080p Projector, which is the noisiest of the lot, must build a quiet box for that some day.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    I found a small enough case (Cooler Master elite 360) to use a spare ATX motherboard in the cabinet under the TV, but it was hardly ever turned on and gave way to my son's Xbox. I think his Mac mini lasted longest there, probably because of its remote control.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    My gaming setup is located in the living room(currently living alone yay!)but i hooked up my laptop to the TV,it only consumes 40W/Hour and it is ultra silent!

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Had one and dumped it for my WD Live as it satisfies most of my needs for now in terms of watching content. Have the D1800B ITX that I used, but for now that's an ornament

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Yes my fully custom watercooled gaming pc.
    Complete with i7-4770K and 2 x Titan Blacks in SLI.
    It can use either the 27" ROG Swift G-sync monitor or the 50" LED TV

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Yes, and not very well, mostly through neglect I'm afraid - has been at 'will upgrade (one day)' status for a while.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Yep, got a little itx system behind the TV. Nothing special, just a AMD AM1-5150 with 4gb ram and a 120gb ssd. Pretty much perfect for plex, almost silent, runs some games and any heavy duty games work ok with the Steam in home streaming thing

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    i have a few, but the main one is a full tower that's hidden behind a 50" plasma which i realised earlier today i've hada for about 10 years now and it's going strong. that connects to an hdmi amp which feeds most stuff to the tv, sky, bluray player, hd-dvd player, media streamer, xbox, playstation, wii, and a bunch of other stuff, and another cable runs up to a 24" monitor near the sofa which is my main screen. i've also got old school stuff like laserdiscs, dvdrecorders, vcr's (yeah, plural!), turntables and a bunch of laptops and tablets, minidisc players, etc, and a modelling guitar amp for my guitars and keyboard

    i usually use the media streamer for playing most things, rather than playing direct on the pc, so if i browse online i don't get noises coming out the speakers, and i prefer the remote control use. a few of the devices do netflix and youtube etc but i use my denon universal bluray player for netflix for similar reasons and it's quieter than the games consoles. that also streams media but i've been using my media sreamer for so long i can use the remote with my eyes shut to pause etc and it does a good job

    if i find things don't play nice then i just stick the amp to the pc and i can play from that

    i've had pc - tv living room setups for over 15 years now, going back to the vooodoo 3000 agp graphics card. i have a similar setup in the bedroom too, that's my second sysem comprising mostly of leftovers from upgrades, but pc-tv via hdmi, media streamer, sky, youview box, etc etc etc

    i'd feel lost without it all

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    I have an old Core2duo/4GB/Win10 laptop, which stays closed, connected to my A/V receiver in the living room via HDMI, and I use a wireless keyboard/trackball combo on the couch.

    My current self-built PC in the den gets the 5GHz N300 channel of the dual-band router to itself and serves all the media.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    I've got a custom build HTPC that I built about 4 years ago. Absolutely fantastic! It runs Kodi and even my 6 year old can use it.

    I used a Silverstone GD06 case, which completely fills one of the shelves in the cabinet under the TV, but has the advantage that there are absolutely no moving parts whatsoever as it's got enough space to not overheat even with all the fans unplugged. It's got a Core i3-2100T 35W CPU and is even running an ancient 30GB OCZ SSD. It's nice to switch it on and hear absolutely nothing

    Storage is on a server under the stairs, with currently 9TB across 4 discs.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    I have an MSI Windbox DC100 under my TV, with an IIS server, PLEX server, SVN server and a few other bits and bobs. It's not remarkably quick these days - I suspect the disk might be on its way out, but it does its job great. I keep it on 24/7, since it uses very little power (10-15W)

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    Re: QOTW: Do you have a PC in your living room?

    Not yet but plan to have a small form factor PC for running a plex media server.
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