ED E wrote: » Calibos, man am I jealous. Thats a household using a lot of media! 5TVs + Other clients. NUCs were on my radar. Might invest in one as they really are tidy units. Before that though the proper FreeNAS unit though, need to get proper content serving before we start pulling from loads of clients. Thanks for all the info guys!
Calibos wrote: » Don't be jealous. House of parents, adult children and significant others that cant afford to move out! We're the Cyber-Walton Family The only thing I'll say is that despite the 'excess' of 6 TV's we'd have a very low carbon footprint what with only one house to heat etc and one of each of all the other household appliances rather 5 of everything. The cost of all the Computer gear/ servers etc is shared.
ShadowHearth wrote: » My solution for media playback. Asus O!Plus, I put movies and TV series on portable hdd and that's it, it can use,usb keys too. So far it plays all formats. Handy little thing and has remote. Then ps3 or ps4 for Netflix.
Serephucus wrote: » At the moment, mine is an mATX rig in an Arc Mini. 2x3TB for documents and irreplaceables, and 3x4TB for movies and the like. It also handles backups of the family's stuff, uTorrent, and Minecraft. I'm thinking over the summer I might switch to this: It's Silverstone's DS380. An ITX box, with 8x3.5 hotswap bays, and 4x2.5 internal bays. I'm also thinking I'll throw this in it:
Genghiz Cohen wrote: » A case with a door in front of the power buttons gets a huge no from me. It is such a pain in the ass that you'll start leaving it open and then it'll get broken off. Worse still, that one hides USB ports too.
ED E wrote: » Thats exactly where a nice NAS becomes very cost efficient, especially one with low idle draw. Right now we have 3 always on units, 1 single drive "NAS" from WD for backups, 1TB DLNA share from the router and a "home server" PC(Win7Pro64) box that hosts a few different services along with a couple TB of content. Its a mess. Looks nice enough, similar price to the Roku, will check it out further. Is the UI "old people friendly"?
kearneybobs wrote: » I use my PS3 in the sitting room for media and in the bedroom I use a WD TV Play. Bought it for about €30 or so from Amazon. Doesn't support DTS I believe but that's hardly a game breaker for me. I use PS3 Media player on both devices and works pretty much flawlessly.
ED E wrote: » €30? Looks like you got a very good price. Guts of 70GBP right now.
Seaaan wrote: » I believe I posted it on a Thursday, and Tuesday 2 weeks I got it. So 11 days.
marko93 wrote: » Lads, tryna help my friend build a PC. Not sure what GFX to go for though, he mostly plays LoL and nothing much demanding. What would you suggest? I was thinking 770/270x/280x!
Seaaan wrote: » Well I play LoL quite a bit, and honestly a stronger graphics card doesn't seem to make a huge difference. I'm running a 290 @1440p and barely maintain 80 fps. Is the game cpu bound? Oh yeah, my old 270x ran it at 50-60 fps at 1080p
Gumbi wrote: » That's because it is largely CPU limited, I believe.
Sarz91 wrote: » Anyone know where I can pick up a gtx 770 with the titan blower cooler? Thinking of putting one into a Hadron and from what I've seen a reference cooler would probably work best.
Lu Tze wrote: » Anybody tried the Stream in-home streaming thingy? Just gave it a lash quickly there (the beta is open to anybody now), looked really impressive, tried Euro Truck 2 and Tom Raider on a crappy laptop and it played fine for the few seconds i played them! Slight jutter on euro truck, but im on the wireless instead of plugged in. I must say i think this will be class, a little intel NUC tucked under the telly and off you go when you fancy a bit of button bashing on the couch! Not sure how it will keep up for fast paced games and things, will have to give it and extended go at the weekend.
srumball wrote: » Is that Big Picture? Or can you now stream from your pc to your TV??
Lu Tze wrote: » No its not big picture. You can stream from your desktop to another computer in the house , in my case a low powered laptop which couldn't run the game at 640 X 480 res but was displaying it full screen on high settings through streaming! Will try again at the weekend, with an ethernet connection this time for an extended play
Lu Tze wrote: » Just for those interested, had a slightly longer go of this last night - using Arkham city. I think it was slightly limited by the connection as the main desktop is connected by home plugs.
