I would be nice to see a part 2 of this, where you install and explain the software side of things, like what apps you use, driver install and settings, Windows settings, setting up your surround sound, HDMI audio, setting up the wireless stuff with controllers, anitvirus, removing bloatware, etc. There are lots of build videos out there, but nobody really ever does videos on the OS/software side of things.
I’ve been watching your channel for years because your content is both educational and enjoyable! I don’t deal with multiple computers at all, I watch your content for the great entertainment! About a year ago I built my first PC and despite being a more “passive” viewer there was enough knowledge and confidence to allow me to do so! Parts selection was actually something I didn’t struggle with. As you’ve made dozens of videos explaining budget balancing I didn’t make a misstep by choosing components that would be a hindrance to the others. For other people, it may be trivial to build a well-rounded system, but for me that isn’t the case. Just enough to not have a system blow up. For that, I thank you!
I guess all of us 'oldsters'that have extensive DVD/Blu ray collections either have to find old cases or use external usb blu ray read/write drives,since the market has 'passed us by". Great build nonetheless,Greg.
I have switched from using PC cases with 5.25 optical bays to ones without them and just using portable optical drives that hook into the PC's USB slot. I find portable USB optical drives to be more practical.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the shop All the PCs were fixed, there were no flops; The thermal paste applied to the chips with care, The components stayed cool, even on just air; The children were nestled all snug in their beds; While visions of sensible and budget friendly PCs danced in their heads; And Greg with his vacuum, a meticulous chap, Not about to let any dustbunnies take a long winter's nap, When from a motherboard speaker there came an audible beep, Greg walked over and took a peep. He opened the side panel quick as a flash, Trying to determine the cause of the crash. The RGB fans gave the room a beautiful glow, He immediately knew the problem was not lack of airflow. When what to his wondering eyes did appear, A DIMM was not fully seated, that much was clear. He pushed the module back into place, careful and quick, Wondering if something so simple would do the trick. But still, no post screen came, He wondered if a faulty processor could be to blame. "Hmm... an i3, an i5, an i7, and i9... It's just for testing purposes, any one will do fine. I'll place the good CPU carefully in the socket! And I'll ground myself first to make sure I don't shock it!" With the new processor in, he gave it a try, Still no post, but he did not cry. Back to the drawing board, he was at a bit of loss. But then he remembered to clear the CMOS. No jumper cap, he pulled a bit of a MacGyver He touched the two pins with his trusty screwdriver. He pressed the power button, and this time around, Right into the BIOS with no unpleasant sounds! He took a quick look, just to make sure, All the components detected, and he heard the case fans whir. A fully functioning PC now sitting on his table, he ran Cinebench just to make sure it ran stable. With a working PC, his viewer's Christmas would be merry! Greg shares his wisdom to make PC repair less scary. He uploaded the full video and never once cursed, but reminded us all to try the simple things first. A job well done, he loaded the PC in his car, He'd return it tomorrow, the viewer didn't live far. But the night was not yet over, he had somewhere to be, Off to Microcenter, full of glee! He walked in the store, prize wheel in hand, set up his table, the display was grand. The lucky viewer walked up, and gave the wheel a spin. Eight hundred dollars, that's a big win! He reflected on his PC and asked Greg a question. A new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, what a sensible suggestion! They worked together and upgraded the outdated PC. Some good performance gains with a nice upgrade path soon came to be. Greg thanked his viewers, and the store's employees, and walked back to his car, enjoying the night's breeze. But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight- “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a be quiet!"
Every time he says he doesnt ever need an optical drive i get flash backs to last christmas when it was -25 and we lost internet for 3 days and were surviving on dvds i hastily bought from the bins at walmart😂
Yup. I lost my internet for 10 days and survived on 5G and my DVD collection. Internet is now sorted but my DVD collection will retain it’s place of honor as a fallback.
Yeah well that’s what a used $20 bluray player is good for. Why take up all that pc space and airflow for something a dedicated player can handle. Not to mention the pita of troubleshooting playback software issues. I loathe windows and bluray software.
@@45enostill good to have a drive somewhere so you can rip stuff. I haven’t directly played movies from a PC in years, but I can watch all of my DVDs and BRs (and listen to my CDs). Having local media has always been a help in an internet outage, and keeping enough of it on my iPad, phone, or DAP has helped in many a power outage, unexpected trip, and so on.
1:24 looks at massive collection of DVD's and blu rays. Wellll you don't speak for everyone. But nothing beats physical media, and that has been proven time and time again, with games, movies and music being removed from digtal store fronts and from streaming servies....... But when it comes down a USB disk drive for physical media if needed.
i use a old HTPC case for my main gaming rig just because i like how they look compared to a normal case i call it the "fridge" because its just a massive stainless steel cube
I have a couple Silverstone cases that are a few years old but still in great condition i got for dirt cheap from my local computer recycling center. Honestly love the older style of Silverstone cases.
I've been running a standard ATX build in my living room for a while, but really was wanting something more fitting for a living room in terms of looks. Thanks for showing off this case. I bought one immediately following watching this. I have since received it and swapped my build over (10850k/3080) and it's been great. It fits perfectly on the shelf of my TV stand. I did have to swap my cooler since my Dark Rock Pro 4 was too tall, but no big deal. To those who aren't really into AIOs and prefer air cooling like myself, the Noctua NH-D12L is an absolutely perfect fit in this case and is keeping my 10850k even cooler than the DRP4 did.
This will take a full sized ATX board, ATX power supply and 300mm+ video card. The best purpose for this case is to repurpose an aging gaming PC. It's the smallest case with these attributes I could find for my entertainment centre. You can still get it with a knock out and tray for an optical drive (GD 09). It also has room for 2 80mm fans for exhaust at the back behind the CPU. Maybe I missed it but I don't know why he didn't throw those in.
No the GD09 is not as deep and cannot house large GPU’s. I have two GD09 built with AM5 both with 6700xt’s because they can’t fit big 330mm GPU’s. I’m considering buying one of these GD11 so I can install a 6800xt in place of the 6700xt.
I use a GD09 and it works well for most surfing and video consumption without temp issues. When gaming it is handy to blow a fan into the entertainment center for better air flow.
I run 2 HTPC's one in my bedroom one in my living room. Got rid of cable in 2008 so the pc is my go to for everything. My bedroom rig is in a older silverstone htpc case a bit smaller than that one. As long as you pair your computer with a good tv with low latency like 1 to 5ms you will have a decent experience. I prefer a OLED now for sure.
I worked at a Gateway Store way back in the day and we had a very early HTPC the Destination. It had a 36 inch CRT and for 1999 it was absolutely amazing.
I enjoy seeing a build that's not so typical, and not something that's super high end. And I wouldn't install an optical drive either as I use my main system to encode physical media since it's going to be better for that regardless. I can see that some people might want to use it to watch physical media rather than streaming it from a Plex/Emby/Jellyfin server, and there are plenty of HTPC style cases that can accommodate one.
I recently built a new HTPC. Had all the parts leftover from upgrades and repairs of other PC's but no case. I live in Australia so finding a suitable case that would fit in my entertainment unit took months of searching. The usual process for this country as the range of cases is always limited. Silverstone to the rescue. Works great and is used extensivily every day.
I built my HTPC from a 4th gen intel based dell computer that I had lying around, in a second hand silverstone case and a couple of extra drives I had laying around haha. I did have to find a half height GPU for it though, so I went with an AMD RX 6400 and it works well for my needs.
This makes me want to get my old HAF out of the garage and build it into an HTPC. at first glance it also looks like a big receiver unit instead of a traditional pc case
I recently built an HTPC to play my 2160p video files. I can't decide if I want to keep it as it is or to switch operating systems. That part I'm not as certain about. Oh, you probably know this Greg, but you can get the temps on the Zen 4 cpus under control by undervolting. I dropped the voltage on mine and it's running far more like my Zen 1 did, mid 40's during idle and mid 60's to low 70's under load. Before undervolting it ran in the mid 60's at idle and high 80's to mid 90's under full load. Both these temps were tested and recorded during Cinebench R23 10 min runs. Of course this is on my gaming pc. My HTPC is a Zen 3 chip. That one is cool no matter what.
I had (still have, just empty) the old version of this case for my HTPC. Really nice brushed aluminum front WITH a slot for an optical drive. Great case, if a little tight, with great ventilation.
Heya Greg, I just upgraded my computer in my older Silverstone Grandia GD 08. I'm still using my Blu Ray drive in mine.😊. You should be able to fit two Noctua 80 mm fans on the back of the case next to the power supply.
Had a similar HTPC a few years ago and you are right, older TVs didn't have the resolution to do productivity apps without eye fatigue. Refresh rate wasn't so important to me. Headaches from trying to do spreadsheets, emails, etc not so nice. Mine had an LCD display where you can display temps, speeds, personalized messages and more with software interface. Paired it with a Logitech wireless controller and K400 keyboard. Now that I have a 4K TV I miss the stealthiness.
Every time Greg builds a new PC I’m like “Man that’s cool, I wanna do that.” Sadly, though, my wallet does not allow me to follow through with such thoughts.
I used this case to squeeze some extra like out of my z390 Taichi ultimate and 9700k. I even was able to fit my 9700s 360mm radiator and only mounted to two fans. Had to dremel and bend the brace bar on the top of the case slightly to clear the radiator. Then I upgraded the radiator fans to a pair of arctic p12 maxs. This limited my gpu length to about 271mm and had about 1-2 milliliters of clearance. This was able to fit with two slim fans on each side of the case. I paired it with an acer predator arc a770 after updating the mb bios to enable rebar. I use it as a living room pc/ streaming pc. I have also been using it for light gaming because intel has been pretty good about driver updates.
19:01 Done differently: I would probably use a 4070 instead of a 3080 in such a airflow constrained setup. You basically get the same performance with 150w less heat and 2GB extra VRAM.
On mine, I Used some HP 6000 series SFF builds.... in my Livingroom I have a HP 6005 and have a HP 6000 on standby.... these builds work great for the HTPC format.... you just need to make sure they are fast enough..... I maxed out the 6005 with a quad core processor and as much memory as the system would support.... always use at least a 1TB hard drive and put in a second for additional storage! love the idea of having a HTPC....
I built my current gaming rig last year. When all was said and done, I realized that I could rebuild the original rig the new one replaced. I call it my HTPC, but it's not anywhere as close to as powerful as the one Greg built. R5 2600X, GTX 1660Ti, 500GB SATA SSD, 16GB 3200 memory, B450 motherboard, 500W PSU, hooked up to a 4K 60Hz TV. The only gaming I've done on it since the rebuild was about 20 minutes of a PS2 emulator, but it does a lot of video streaming. Way more than enough power for that, and it does it a lot better than the apps that came with my TV.
Really clean and understated build. Have myself grown more or less tired of RGB, mostly due to the potential can of worms it can come with due to all of the different softwares etc. Really clean build overall and especially liked your reasoning around not going for the highest end components, since it's not always really necessary to begin with. Loving the regular content as usual Greg! :)
I used GD09 to build my first htpc 5 years ago. No problems very happy. Then I had a stroke Feb 2024, I had to relearn to drive and built a driving simulator. I used the grandia 11 made one mod I installed an exhaust fan on the lid to help GPU. The problem I have is the front panel is garbage. Usb c is unusable and power and reset fell inwards and I "fixed it" I have to press sofly as the buttons are spongy.
I have an HTPC like this one that I built in 2022, that I also use for streaming. I just use the Windows magnifier when I need to read text on the screen from across the room (like when choosing a media source) and a wireless mouse on my end table is the controlling device. I have been a cordcutter for 10 yrs and I prefer to stream with a PC in my living room.
I still have my Silverstone Crown02 since i can just lay my "old systems" just in there because it is so tall. Had to cut 2x 120mm holes in the bottom and lift it up a bit for airflow but atm it handles a 6900xt @ 230 Watts and a 3700x just fine.
Still using a 6i7KYK as my htpc. $250 with 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd like 3 or 4 years ago. External hdd stays hooked up all the time, usb bluray drive comes out of storage occasionally. Draws like 10 watts at idle and it's enough to play some games up to about ps3 quality. Mostly I just like to have something I can run an adblock on and not use the smart tv apps lol
I would have gone with a B650 mAtX motherboard. You can find good ones for this type of build for around 120 bucks. The B650 would allow for a better upgrade path, if the 7600 is found to not be right for the build. They tend to have better vrm and cooling for said vrm. If going with a board without vrm heatsinks, the Artic Liquid Freezer II AIO coolers may be a better option. They include a small fan in the cpu block that blows air over the vrm. They run for around the same amount of money as the Deepcools. The 240 that I'm running in my rig was around 83 bucks, when I got it from Amazon about a month ago. Steve from Gamer's Nexus used the 360 version to cool the new Threadrippers, in his reviews of those CPUs. My daughter uses the same model Deepcool that Greg used in the video to cool her 12700K so they're no slouch for the money spent, either. In this build, I just think the extra vrm cooling gives the choice to the Artic.
I only have 1 PC and a decent 32" LG monitor. My bequiet! HTPC is also my CAD Workstation. One thing I added to my old system when my on board Realtek sound flaked out was a Soundblaster Z. It sounds way better on my Logitech G5.1 speakers
I bought that same Wi-Fi card, makes me feel a lot better knowing that someone of your expertise picked out the same one, pretty good value for the money
Normally I'm just a silent watcher but I just love HTPC 'S I started back the mid 2000's back then with a Cooler Master Cavalier 2 with a Beast of a Core Duo cpu haha! Man time's changed.. Recently I build a system for my sister in the SilverStone GD04 a oldie but goldie system with a i7 6700k / 1070Ti evga / msi b250m bazooka / 32gb / 970 evo plus ssd as windows drive / 2Tb 870 Evo ssd / Seasonic Focus 650w platinum / with a blue Ray drive off course haha! Plus a lot of Noctua Redux fan's love them! Keep up the good work Greg!
I have hdds in my Silverstone gd08b. I use it to run plex and other stuff that i mostly consume on my phone. It is a very tight case and i cant even fit 6 drives in there. Also annoying is the lack of rear cutout for cpu cooler install
I like the addition of a optical drive. I grew up in the 80s. If you don't have physical copys of games of music you don't own anything at all. If my power goes out I can hook my HTPC up and watch old movies off generator power.
Thats case i built in recently, more of a gaming pc that resides under my tv, spec is AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d, Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 64gb 6400mhz, Samsung 990pro 2tb, Asus TUF B650-plus wifi matx, Asus TUF 1000w psu, Asus TUF LC240 ARGB aio, Sapphire Pulse RX 7900XTX, Noctua Chromax 120mm and 80mm fans, Silverstone Grandia 11 case, Asus ROG Falchion keyboard, Asus ROG Gladius III mouse
Had this case, sadly a half inch too tall for my intended shelf! Ended up going in a different direction, with current build. Have an In-Win case for a future HTPC build!
I've never noticed until now, but he has some graded yugioh cards in the background. I've always been too caught up in the PC builds and never paid attention to it before. Awesome!
Hello my good sir mr greg, I have a question, if a mobo only has 2 argb header and 2 fan headers (1A each), how many argb fans can I connect to a single header? Same goes for the fan header. Do you recommend using a hub or splitter(s)
I swear, every time I do something I look at Greg's channel and see he did the same thing! I used the Cougar QBX case and an AM4 ITX system. I used a 5700X with a 240mm AIO, 32gb ram and a 3060 12gb. I built it for my daughter and her husband so they can play their games on the living room tv and watch all the media that I obtained in a completely legal way. They mostly play racing games, 2 player games and do some emulation for older console games.
Honestly a 5600G build or even a tiny MinisForum PC or something would be fine for that. Attach a NAS or upgrade storage for a huge media library and you're sitting pretty good!
Totally needs a single 120mm exhaust fan next to the power supply. These Silverstone cases get hot and needs at least two intakes and a single exhaust. No passive venting gameplan with a 3080 installed in there.
I have an old Inspiron 546s I've been considering for an icognito web machine, but lately I've been thinking it might make a good HTPC / media NAS. Athlon II X3 400e, 4GB RAM, DVD-RW. Worth putting a 2TB SSD in for this?
i almost bought one of these for my HTPC, but is too expensive and is a bit small inside.... i just bought a standard mid size tower and modified it a little bit to use it horizontally and to look more like an AV component so it not look off next to my other home theater components
I’m gonna deep fry my gpu to make it tasty in performance
You deserve to be exposed 👽
😂
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Naah man I'll get it well done
I would be nice to see a part 2 of this, where you install and explain the software side of things, like what apps you use, driver install and settings, Windows settings, setting up your surround sound, HDMI audio, setting up the wireless stuff with controllers, anitvirus, removing bloatware, etc.
There are lots of build videos out there, but nobody really ever does videos on the OS/software side of things.
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@@dilbyjones LTT actually did a video on exactly this last week.. Maybe they saw my comment. 🤣
Always cool to see more unique (at least to me) cases through your channel. I never knew they made cases like that!
Glad you like them!
I just built my father a htpc in this exact case for his home theater, and it was really fun and unique to build in
I’ve been watching your channel for years because your content is both educational and enjoyable! I don’t deal with multiple computers at all, I watch your content for the great entertainment! About a year ago I built my first PC and despite being a more “passive” viewer there was enough knowledge and confidence to allow me to do so! Parts selection was actually something I didn’t struggle with. As you’ve made dozens of videos explaining budget balancing I didn’t make a misstep by choosing components that would be a hindrance to the others. For other people, it may be trivial to build a well-rounded system, but for me that isn’t the case. Just enough to not have a system blow up. For that, I thank you!
I guess all of us 'oldsters'that have extensive DVD/Blu ray collections either have to find old cases or use external usb blu ray read/write drives,since the market has 'passed us by". Great build nonetheless,Greg.
I'm sure there are still some more modern cases in this form factor with 5.25in bays still for optical drives
There are many cases still offering 5.25”
GD 09 has a tray and knock out for an optical drive.
I have switched from using PC cases with 5.25 optical bays to ones without them and just using portable optical drives that hook into the PC's USB slot. I find portable USB optical drives to be more practical.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the shop
All the PCs were fixed, there were no flops;
The thermal paste applied to the chips with care,
The components stayed cool, even on just air;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds;
While visions of sensible and budget friendly PCs danced in their heads;
And Greg with his vacuum, a meticulous chap,
Not about to let any dustbunnies take a long winter's nap,
When from a motherboard speaker there came an audible beep,
Greg walked over and took a peep.
He opened the side panel quick as a flash,
Trying to determine the cause of the crash.
The RGB fans gave the room a beautiful glow,
He immediately knew the problem was not lack of airflow.
When what to his wondering eyes did appear,
A DIMM was not fully seated, that much was clear.
He pushed the module back into place, careful and quick,
Wondering if something so simple would do the trick.
But still, no post screen came,
He wondered if a faulty processor could be to blame.
"Hmm... an i3, an i5, an i7, and i9...
It's just for testing purposes, any one will do fine.
I'll place the good CPU carefully in the socket!
And I'll ground myself first to make sure I don't shock it!"
With the new processor in, he gave it a try,
Still no post, but he did not cry.
Back to the drawing board, he was at a bit of loss.
But then he remembered to clear the CMOS.
No jumper cap, he pulled a bit of a MacGyver
He touched the two pins with his trusty screwdriver.
He pressed the power button, and this time around,
Right into the BIOS with no unpleasant sounds!
He took a quick look, just to make sure,
All the components detected, and he heard the case fans whir.
A fully functioning PC now sitting on his table,
he ran Cinebench just to make sure it ran stable.
With a working PC, his viewer's Christmas would be merry!
Greg shares his wisdom to make PC repair less scary.
He uploaded the full video and never once cursed,
but reminded us all to try the simple things first.
A job well done, he loaded the PC in his car,
He'd return it tomorrow, the viewer didn't live far.
But the night was not yet over, he had somewhere to be,
Off to Microcenter, full of glee!
He walked in the store, prize wheel in hand,
set up his table, the display was grand.
The lucky viewer walked up, and gave the wheel a spin.
Eight hundred dollars, that's a big win!
He reflected on his PC and asked Greg a question.
A new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, what a sensible suggestion!
They worked together and upgraded the outdated PC.
Some good performance gains with a nice upgrade path soon came to be.
Greg thanked his viewers, and the store's employees,
and walked back to his car, enjoying the night's breeze.
But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight-
“Merry Christmas to all, and to all a be quiet!"
@GregSalazar get this person a pinned comment lol
This is incredible, bravo
Very Well thought out and love filled PC Christmas Poem. Enjoyed it good job! 👍
Every time he says he doesnt ever need an optical drive i get flash backs to last christmas when it was -25 and we lost internet for 3 days and were surviving on dvds i hastily bought from the bins at walmart😂
Not to mention there's plenty of movies you just won't find on a streaming platform. DVDs still have their place.
@@demontekdigital Especially when you can simply rip them!
Yup. I lost my internet for 10 days and survived on 5G and my DVD collection. Internet is now sorted but my DVD collection will retain it’s place of honor as a fallback.
Yeah well that’s what a used $20 bluray player is good for. Why take up all that pc space and airflow for something a dedicated player can handle. Not to mention the pita of troubleshooting playback software issues. I loathe windows and bluray software.
@@45enostill good to have a drive somewhere so you can rip stuff. I haven’t directly played movies from a PC in years, but I can watch all of my DVDs and BRs (and listen to my CDs). Having local media has always been a help in an internet outage, and keeping enough of it on my iPad, phone, or DAP has helped in many a power outage, unexpected trip, and so on.
1:24 looks at massive collection of DVD's and blu rays. Wellll you don't speak for everyone. But nothing beats physical media, and that has been proven time and time again, with games, movies and music being removed from digtal store fronts and from streaming servies....... But when it comes down a USB disk drive for physical media if needed.
i use a old HTPC case for my main gaming rig just because i like how they look compared to a normal case
i call it the "fridge" because its just a massive stainless steel cube
I have a couple Silverstone cases that are a few years old but still in great condition i got for dirt cheap from my local computer recycling center. Honestly love the older style of Silverstone cases.
I've been running a standard ATX build in my living room for a while, but really was wanting something more fitting for a living room in terms of looks. Thanks for showing off this case. I bought one immediately following watching this. I have since received it and swapped my build over (10850k/3080) and it's been great. It fits perfectly on the shelf of my TV stand. I did have to swap my cooler since my Dark Rock Pro 4 was too tall, but no big deal. To those who aren't really into AIOs and prefer air cooling like myself, the Noctua NH-D12L is an absolutely perfect fit in this case and is keeping my 10850k even cooler than the DRP4 did.
This build looks sick never knew a case like this existed
Nobody:
Greg Salazar: “I actually really like how tight this is”
Awesome HTPC build, totally enjoyed watching entire video.
I've had the grandia 11 for over a year now, and it's a pretty good case. Ripping off the fine mesh helped so much with temps.
Silver Stone does have some good cases. I have used 3 of them in my builds, very versatile.
That case has so much potential for improvement is incredible.
This will take a full sized ATX board, ATX power supply and 300mm+ video card. The best purpose for this case is to repurpose an aging gaming PC. It's the smallest case with these attributes I could find for my entertainment centre. You can still get it with a knock out and tray for an optical drive (GD 09). It also has room for 2 80mm fans for exhaust at the back behind the CPU. Maybe I missed it but I don't know why he didn't throw those in.
No the GD09 is not as deep and cannot house large GPU’s. I have two GD09 built with AM5 both with 6700xt’s because they can’t fit big 330mm GPU’s. I’m considering buying one of these GD11 so I can install a 6800xt in place of the 6700xt.
thats beautiful case.Nice video as always
Nicely done Greg! Another great video.
I use a GD09 and it works well for most surfing and video consumption without temp issues. When gaming it is handy to blow a fan into the entertainment center for better air flow.
I run 2 HTPC's one in my bedroom one in my living room. Got rid of cable in 2008 so the pc is my go to for everything. My bedroom rig is in a older silverstone htpc case a bit smaller than that one. As long as you pair your computer with a good tv with low latency like 1 to 5ms you will have a decent experience. I prefer a OLED now for sure.
I worked at a Gateway Store way back in the day and we had a very early HTPC the Destination. It had a 36 inch CRT and for 1999 it was absolutely amazing.
Nice looking build. Really like the case.
I enjoy seeing a build that's not so typical, and not something that's super high end. And I wouldn't install an optical drive either as I use my main system to encode physical media since it's going to be better for that regardless. I can see that some people might want to use it to watch physical media rather than streaming it from a Plex/Emby/Jellyfin server, and there are plenty of HTPC style cases that can accommodate one.
7:59 *slow clap* You can show yourself out Greg.
I recently built a new HTPC. Had all the parts leftover from upgrades and repairs of other PC's but no case. I live in Australia so finding a suitable case that would fit in my entertainment unit took months of searching. The usual process for this country as the range of cases is always limited.
Silverstone to the rescue. Works great and is used extensivily every day.
Greg never fails to fill us up with his warm content
That is cool the specs seem pretty good that that workload.
I built my HTPC from a 4th gen intel based dell computer that I had lying around, in a second hand silverstone case and a couple of extra drives I had laying around haha. I did have to find a half height GPU for it though, so I went with an AMD RX 6400 and it works well for my needs.
This makes me want to get my old HAF out of the garage and build it into an HTPC. at first glance it also looks like a big receiver unit instead of a traditional pc case
Nice build as always, I am intrigued by that AIO, it's pretty
I recently built an HTPC to play my 2160p video files. I can't decide if I want to keep it as it is or to switch operating systems. That part I'm not as certain about.
Oh, you probably know this Greg, but you can get the temps on the Zen 4 cpus under control by undervolting. I dropped the voltage on mine and it's running far more like my Zen 1 did, mid 40's during idle and mid 60's to low 70's under load. Before undervolting it ran in the mid 60's at idle and high 80's to mid 90's under full load. Both these temps were tested and recorded during Cinebench R23 10 min runs. Of course this is on my gaming pc. My HTPC is a Zen 3 chip. That one is cool no matter what.
Interesting case, silverstone does have some unique cases.
I had (still have, just empty) the old version of this case for my HTPC. Really nice brushed aluminum front WITH a slot for an optical drive. Great case, if a little tight, with great ventilation.
i gotta get one of these cases to build in for my living room as itll blend in with my black and grey living room set..... Great Vid as always...
Heya Greg, I just upgraded my computer in my older Silverstone Grandia GD 08. I'm still using my Blu Ray drive in mine.😊. You should be able to fit two Noctua 80 mm fans on the back of the case next to the power supply.
Had a similar HTPC a few years ago and you are right, older TVs didn't have the resolution to do productivity apps without eye fatigue. Refresh rate wasn't so important to me. Headaches from trying to do spreadsheets, emails, etc not so nice. Mine had an LCD display where you can display temps, speeds, personalized messages and more with software interface. Paired it with a Logitech wireless controller and K400 keyboard. Now that I have a 4K TV I miss the stealthiness.
I built an htpc YEARS ago in a Silverstone Grandia GD08 with a bluray drive and a gtx 660ti😂😂😂. It was actually awesome at the time
Every time Greg builds a new PC I’m like “Man that’s cool, I wanna do that.” Sadly, though, my wallet does not allow me to follow through with such thoughts.
You can do it on a budget with used/budget parts! That's how I built both my PC and NAS.
@@HazewinDog Mainly the thing is I already have multiple PCs in the house and I can't justify to my wife why I need to build more lol
@@Erkimet well.. that one I can't help with, haha
Woah - perfect timing! Planning on building a new HTPC over the Holidays to switch out the Ol’ Skylake system!
Awesome this one is Greg. Top work 👌
I used this case to squeeze some extra like out of my z390 Taichi ultimate and 9700k. I even was able to fit my 9700s 360mm radiator and only mounted to two fans. Had to dremel and bend the brace bar on the top of the case slightly to clear the radiator. Then I upgraded the radiator fans to a pair of arctic p12 maxs. This limited my gpu length to about 271mm and had about 1-2 milliliters of clearance. This was able to fit with two slim fans on each side of the case. I paired it with an acer predator arc a770 after updating the mb bios to enable rebar.
I use it as a living room pc/ streaming pc. I have also been using it for light gaming because intel has been pretty good about driver updates.
19:01 Done differently: I would probably use a 4070 instead of a 3080 in such a airflow constrained setup. You basically get the same performance with 150w less heat and 2GB extra VRAM.
On mine, I Used some HP 6000 series SFF builds.... in my Livingroom I have a HP 6005 and have a HP 6000 on standby.... these builds work great for the HTPC format.... you just need to make sure they are fast enough..... I maxed out the 6005 with a quad core processor and as much memory as the system would support.... always use at least a 1TB hard drive and put in a second for additional storage! love the idea of having a HTPC....
Some of us old timers still use optical drives.
That’s dope. I Ashley use my banking pc for a living room entertainment setup, so having something lowkey like that would be perfect
0:32 hey I have that Cooler Master case, can't say I'm using that build much these days but that is a thing that I own
Great video Greg, my HTPC runs my 65 inch 4K samsung tv... Intel I7 870 ... with a RX 5700XT... with no problems.
I built my current gaming rig last year. When all was said and done, I realized that I could rebuild the original rig the new one replaced. I call it my HTPC, but it's not anywhere as close to as powerful as the one Greg built. R5 2600X, GTX 1660Ti, 500GB SATA SSD, 16GB 3200 memory, B450 motherboard, 500W PSU, hooked up to a 4K 60Hz TV. The only gaming I've done on it since the rebuild was about 20 minutes of a PS2 emulator, but it does a lot of video streaming. Way more than enough power for that, and it does it a lot better than the apps that came with my TV.
Really clean and understated build. Have myself grown more or less tired of RGB, mostly due to the potential can of worms it can come with due to all of the different softwares etc.
Really clean build overall and especially liked your reasoning around not going for the highest end components, since it's not always really necessary to begin with.
Loving the regular content as usual Greg! :)
Thanks for watching!
@@GregSalazar It's an pleasure as always!
I used GD09 to build my first htpc 5 years ago. No problems very happy. Then I had a stroke Feb 2024, I had to relearn to drive and built a driving simulator. I used the grandia 11 made one mod I installed an exhaust fan on the lid to help GPU. The problem I have is the front panel is garbage. Usb c is unusable and power and reset fell inwards and I "fixed it" I have to press sofly as the buttons are spongy.
I have an HTPC like this one that I built in 2022, that I also use for streaming. I just use the Windows magnifier when I need to read text on the screen from across the room (like when choosing a media source) and a wireless mouse on my end table is the controlling device. I have been a cordcutter for 10 yrs and I prefer to stream with a PC in my living room.
have a good one and be safe man going to get back to my stream needed to calm down after valorant today
Nice build.
The flexibility of HTPCs is their biggest advantage over Smart TVs and TV sticks.
I still have my Silverstone Crown02 since i can just lay my "old systems" just in there because it is so tall. Had to cut 2x 120mm holes in the bottom and lift it up a bit for airflow but atm it handles a 6900xt @ 230 Watts and a 3700x just fine.
I've built in my fair share of Silverstone cases. Love them!
Still using a 6i7KYK as my htpc. $250 with 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd like 3 or 4 years ago. External hdd stays hooked up all the time, usb bluray drive comes out of storage occasionally. Draws like 10 watts at idle and it's enough to play some games up to about ps3 quality. Mostly I just like to have something I can run an adblock on and not use the smart tv apps lol
is a rx6600 a good upgrade from a gtx 1060 6b??
I would have gone with a B650 mAtX motherboard. You can find good ones for this type of build for around 120 bucks. The B650 would allow for a better upgrade path, if the 7600 is found to not be right for the build. They tend to have better vrm and cooling for said vrm. If going with a board without vrm heatsinks, the Artic Liquid Freezer II AIO coolers may be a better option. They include a small fan in the cpu block that blows air over the vrm. They run for around the same amount of money as the Deepcools. The 240 that I'm running in my rig was around 83 bucks, when I got it from Amazon about a month ago. Steve from Gamer's Nexus used the 360 version to cool the new Threadrippers, in his reviews of those CPUs. My daughter uses the same model Deepcool that Greg used in the video to cool her 12700K so they're no slouch for the money spent, either. In this build, I just think the extra vrm cooling gives the choice to the Artic.
Greg, you need that optical drive so you can rip redbox blu-rays.
I only have 1 PC and a decent 32" LG monitor. My bequiet! HTPC is also my CAD Workstation. One thing I added to my old system when my on board Realtek sound flaked out was a Soundblaster Z. It sounds way better on my Logitech G5.1 speakers
i'm gonna be building my first pc in the same case soon but i'll be using the noctua nh-d12l for the cooler
do you know any new cases that have good airflow and space for an optical drive? I still use those
I bought that same Wi-Fi card, makes me feel a lot better knowing that someone of your expertise picked out the same one, pretty good value for the money
Yeah, the value looked decent. So far so good on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality!
You've given me an idea for our future home! Let's just hope the commander approves!
Coudnt you do the same thing with the server pc hooked through like steam link or a thunderbolt cable to a hub?
Normally I'm just a silent watcher but I just love HTPC 'S I started back the mid 2000's back then with a Cooler Master Cavalier 2 with a Beast of a Core Duo cpu haha! Man time's changed.. Recently I build a system for my sister in the SilverStone GD04 a oldie but goldie system with a i7 6700k / 1070Ti evga / msi b250m bazooka / 32gb / 970 evo plus ssd as windows drive / 2Tb 870 Evo ssd / Seasonic Focus 650w platinum / with a blue Ray drive off course haha! Plus a lot of Noctua Redux fan's love them! Keep up the good work Greg!
I like the stealth look of the case.
Hey did you consider installing a TV (Broadcast card)... with streaming I hardly ever use my antenna but I have two TV cards ...
Another great built. I would like to have at least a small exit fan but I respect your choice.
I'd like to see a video on how to set up the HTPC. I've never wandered into the market but would love to see it!
I have hdds in my Silverstone gd08b. I use it to run plex and other stuff that i mostly consume on my phone. It is a very tight case and i cant even fit 6 drives in there. Also annoying is the lack of rear cutout for cpu cooler install
I like the addition of a optical drive. I grew up in the 80s. If you don't have physical copys of games of music you don't own anything at all. If my power goes out I can hook my HTPC up and watch old movies off generator power.
Mine DEFINITELY needed those 80mm exhausts in the tv stand. Got TOASTY without them. Used some Arctic ones beack then.
Thats case i built in recently, more of a gaming pc that resides under my tv, spec is AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d, Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 64gb 6400mhz, Samsung 990pro 2tb, Asus TUF B650-plus wifi matx, Asus TUF 1000w psu, Asus TUF LC240 ARGB aio, Sapphire Pulse RX 7900XTX, Noctua Chromax 120mm and 80mm fans, Silverstone Grandia 11 case, Asus ROG Falchion keyboard, Asus ROG Gladius III mouse
What about HDMI CEC for controlling the TV? Volume, turn the TV on, etc? It's a vexing problem because GPUs don't have the CEC chips built in.
What do you do for storage? I didn't see anything for storing media in there. Do you keep media in a NAS device or something?
Had this case, sadly a half inch too tall for my intended shelf! Ended up going in a different direction, with current build. Have an In-Win case for a future HTPC build!
I've never noticed until now, but he has some graded yugioh cards in the background. I've always been too caught up in the PC builds and never paid attention to it before. Awesome!
Am wondering if an AIO can be used and still use the 5.25 bay in this case?
Merry Christmas, Salazar Family! Enjoy your new HTPC!
Whare is the guide mentioned in the video. I don't see it attache in the description. Thanks and keep up the great work.
I did the opposite approach when I made my htpc in that I prioritized the ability to play physical media over playing actual games.
One of the biggest PITAs is cable management in these HTPC cases. Any tips?
Hello my good sir mr greg, I have a question, if a mobo only has 2 argb header and 2 fan headers (1A each), how many argb fans can I connect to a single header? Same goes for the fan header. Do you recommend using a hub or splitter(s)
I swear, every time I do something I look at Greg's channel and see he did the same thing! I used the Cougar QBX case and an AM4 ITX system. I used a 5700X with a 240mm AIO, 32gb ram and a 3060 12gb. I built it for my daughter and her husband so they can play their games on the living room tv and watch all the media that I obtained in a completely legal way. They mostly play racing games, 2 player games and do some emulation for older console games.
Greg! That's a good looking PC.
Daniel! Thanks!
what parts will you pick for non gaming, non VR , and just media 4K TV output ??
Honestly a 5600G build or even a tiny MinisForum PC or something would be fine for that. Attach a NAS or upgrade storage for a huge media library and you're sitting pretty good!
Very cool, I think I have a new project for next year.
Totally needs a single 120mm exhaust fan next to the power supply. These Silverstone cases get hot and needs at least two intakes and a single exhaust. No passive venting gameplan with a 3080 installed in there.
Like that ltx2023 hoodie. Love the content. I will be working on going next year.
I have an old Inspiron 546s I've been considering for an icognito web machine, but lately I've been thinking it might make a good HTPC / media NAS. Athlon II X3 400e, 4GB RAM, DVD-RW. Worth putting a 2TB SSD in for this?
What do you use as a display in this video? My wife wants something small for the kitchen. Thought something like this would be nice if it has audio.
I would love to build a htpc/nas. Great video!
Great job Greg
i almost bought one of these for my HTPC, but is too expensive and is a bit small inside.... i just bought a standard mid size tower and modified it a little bit to use it horizontally and to look more like an AV component so it not look off next to my other home theater components
What was the final cost to computer?
What is the measured floor noise of this setup?