Use your Old PC as HTPC / Media PC

What do you do with your old PC at home? Give it to the recycle man and get some little cash back? Leave it around as junk or make use of it? I have 2 PC at home, 1 is which I’m using to blog and another one for watching downloaded video. It’s not that I purposely built the other PC just for watching downloaded video.

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Well, that media PC is actually my old primary PC, later then my brother gave me his which has a better specs so I intend to use his as my primary PC right now. My parents are not computer literate, using it as home PC will eventually turn out I am the one that use it only. Why not turning it into a server? Yeah, I think about that before but one thing that annoys me is that this PC is not for long run. It’s hot, the hea sink fan is noisy, I hate the stock Pentium 4 heatsink fan. It’s pretty quiet in a air-conditioned room when I am watching a movie, so I rather not to spend few hundred Ringgit on the fan itself.

It’s now doing good with me but my room have to be cool when watching a movie else the noise of the fan will come. Last time, I used to have a table fan blowing at the case, but now mom has took it somewhere else, moreover there’s not enough powerpoint for me, all the plugs on the wall are full.

Though, this PC is only for those who are computer literate because it doesn’t have Windows Media Center or XP Media Center edition installed or any other media center program. If you wanted to build a HTPC (Home theater PC)/Media PC for you family, be sure to have one of those program or get yourself a copy of Windows Vista which has Windows Media Center pre-installed and of course, get them a remote control. No keyboard or mouse to computer n3wbi3.

Now, friends and relative can enjoy some Youtube video and my downloads of TV series on the TV. However, I still can’t get media sharing and networking between Windows XP and Vista to work, any idea?

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Comments 1 May 15th, 2008

One Response to “Use your Old PC as HTPC / Media PC”

  1. yiphing Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    so cool!
    XD
    my old pc recycle oled
    so ke xi~

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