HTPC with SLi

[Raikkonen]

Has anyone here made or attempted to make an HTPC with SLi so that it could be used as a gaming rig as well?

[PLg]

Yes, you could also go with quad sli for uber blu-ray playback, but by HTPC do you mean a htpc case?, Because really you could use any computer case as a htpc

[_dangtx_]

if youre thinking h55 based board, probably quite hard/expensive to find one.

but it can be done, although small case limits gpu/cpu cooler sizes appropriately.

and yes i built a small box with a pair of nv cards a while ago. just for fun. lower end cards + downdraft cooler = fun but not a match for a big tower with all the cooling and all.

also dont forget about the powersupply. good thing tha twe got ssds, this way you can deal with crammed place better

[Raikkonen]

I was thinking of a silverstone case, grandia 04b or something to that affect. Perhaps a P55 V SLi board. I believe its only 8x/8x when used in SLi, but with maybe two gtx460's it could be cool enough...not sure about the powersupply for it. Just not sure if this would work as I would hate to purchase the components and then fail to put it together (especially if I could pick up some cheap used gtx 2xx cards).

[Perineum]

kinda pointless at 1080 resolutions, no? One 480 should completely destroy everything at that resolution......

[_dangtx_]

actually two 460 1gb at stock in sli do manhandle a 480, at 1920x1980. 2560xwhatever it may be another story...lets see...

http://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeF...es/perfrel.gif

nope, manhandles it everywhere, probably the ram size plays an effect as well.

hell oc them a bit and youll get to 5970 levels

edit : http://tpucdn.com/reviews/Zotac/GeFo...power_peak.gif

with lower power consumption to0


and now lets look at this grandia 04b ....



Newegg.com - SILVERSTONE Black 8.0mm aluminum front panel, 0.8mm SECC body GRANDIA GD04B Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case


Support power supply up to 180mm long

Support expansion cards up to 11 inches



unless i did the math wrong, thats a fine unit

expensive for a case, if i were you id sneak all of that in a nice ps04b but hey

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[Raikkonen]

Well, I'm probably going to build this thing. Figure it'll be the Silverstone case, because apparently it cools extremely well with stock fans. I will probably put in an Evga P55 V SLi board and then slap in two GTX 260's or 460's. Any recommendations on psu's? ram? I read that the p55's are picky about ram.

[_dangtx_]

for psu, corsair,seasonic, some may say antecs. dual 460's max loaded and not oc'ed/furmarked should be around 250 watts,duallie with the p55 maybe 100-150 . you can do with little psu but maybe go for the 600-700 watt range.
modular is probably a must

[Bao]

Originally Posted by Raikkonen

Well, I'm probably going to build this thing. Figure it'll be the Silverstone case, because apparently it cools extremely well with stock fans. I will probably put in an Evga P55 V SLi board and then slap in two GTX 260's or 460's. Any recommendations on psu's? ram? I read that the p55's are picky about ram.

I'm using a Seasonic 850W M12D for my HTPC (got a decent deal on slightly used).

The motherboard is an EVGA P55 Micro SLI.

I've only used two sets of memory on this board, but no issues.

(OCZ3P1600LV4GK, then 2x OCZ3G1333LV4G).

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Also that's an interesting case that you picked, looks nice.