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Linux media center pc plays x.264
Linux media center pc plays x.264













  • Huge 5400rpm HDD to be filled up to the brim with games, movies, music, books, and pictures.
  • Oodles and kaboodles of RAM, more than all the software the slow CPU can run can ever use.
  • CPU is the main system bottleneck, then HDD.
  • CPU is underclocked to control heat (Cheap A/C 85) and bring power consumption on par with a more modern but more expensive Gigabyte Brix or Intel Nuc.
  • The RAM's very high speed isn't utilized, but the BIOS is using a very low CAS latency to get partial exploitation.
  • 2TB HDD and 16GB RAM Modules purchased from NewEgg.
  • Four systems bought for $50 each from boot-to-BIOS / intact screen parts/repair as-is auctions on eBay.
  • Need Ethernet, wi-fi, and graphics drivers to work.
  • BOINC (background science crunching), with VirtualBox if able (for LHC project apps).
  • Nothing newer than 2010 unless it is one of those low-spec games
  • Games - Open source, emulators, closed-source freeware, and commercial.
  • Close equivalent to Media Player Classic.
  • 32GB DDR3-1600 RAM (2x16GB so-dimm sticks upgrade).
  • linux media center pc plays x.264

    2TB 5400 RPM hard disk drive (upgrade) 7mm heigh (1tb per platter).

    linux media center pc plays x.264

    Gigabit ethernet, Wireless-N Wi-Fi (not AC, no 5ghz), BlueTooth, Verizon 4G.AMD E-350 APU (CPU with embedded GPU) 1.6GHZ.















    Linux media center pc plays x.264