Recent content by thatguyontheright

I am going to look at noctua fans, also changing out the stock cooler for a silent one or a quieter one. I dunno if I could do a closed loop liquid cooling system in the case. Better yet, modify the case to use a 200mm fan.

Not just lift the board out of the case, but take the case with it and fly off to neverland

it's an FM2 based system with an AMD A10 processor. It's only slightly old.

The case itself is poorly designed. The case has three fans not including the fans in the PSU CPU and GPU. The PSU is buried into the case, I think the fan whirring echos also. Then it gets hot after a while. The system isn't an ideal HTPC in my opinion since it has a massive power draw, like a...

You're right, or a used workstation, and throw in a low profile video card. I have a machine that matches this description but it's louder than a jet engine so I hardly use it.

Well, I did some digging, it's an off the shelf component like I assumed. It's a 68 pin board to board mezzanine connector, hooked into the PCI-e bus. But looking for Male/Female connectors isn't an easy thing Digikey and mouser demand you buy them in bulk at $4 a piece for 3000...I guess not a...

If I can get the connector, it wouldn't be hard to solder up a lead, the only issue would be attenuation, if it's a factor at all. Finding the kind of connector should be easier than trying to track down soldering points, and soldering to a motherboard is tricky, especially with SMD components...

I am using an old laptop to do a HTPC case mod, a Dell Inspiron N7010 with an i3 -M370 processor. The motherboard is split between a networking board, and the main board. I don't want to not use the networking board because it holds the majority of the USB ports, and the Gigabit Ethernet...

After my Roku 3 bit the dust, I started using a Raspberry pi 3 as my main plex client, which didn't work out as I had started putting my media into h.265 files so lots of dropped frames. So I am building a proper HTPC...just to run plex and have h.265 10 bit hardware decoding. I have two builds...

I tinkered a bit with several different media types and here is what I have concluded. Converting h.264 to h.265 is no big deal with animation. It is much harder with live action as you are adding more compression on top of the existing compression. On average, I was able to get a 30% reduction...

Lame. I bet it depends on the content too.

I have googled it this question and what came up I think seems to be questionable software. Without re-ripping my media and going back to raw, is there a way to take my h.264 compressed media and convert it to h.265 without losing quality? I am running win7 64bit. I am sure I know the answer...