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anyway to get vudu and amazon prime on apple tv 2 (w a jailbreak?)

EDIT: there's an amazon prime plug in for xbmc
 

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Did you finish It breh?

Mobo was DOA and Amazon told me to send it back. I ll get a refund and a 50 $ GC for the inconvenience. She says plenty ppl complaining about UPS delivered mobos. Idk but I m taking therefund and the 50 GC to get a better mobo and upgrade lol, but damn I wasted a whole day
 

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In case anyone's looking for a mid-range cooler:

I have been having an issue with my pc shutting down while I was playing games. My temp readings were @ 56° at idle. I got a Phanteks PH-TC12DX and did the install last night. It was a straight forward install, no hassles at all. I haven't played any games with it yet, but it did drop my idle temp down to 36-38°.

It's on sale right now for $50:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835709018
 

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So pseudo tv only pulls channels from your media it won't pull from live streams you have set up :sadcam:

Just the content you own.

I haven't worked on my HTPC in awhile since I've been so busy. Now that I cut the cable, I gotta get some more add-ons. Think i'm gonna work on that rom collection browser this weekend.
 

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So I'm gonna use that tax return to build myself a beastly htpc been reading as much as I can about them and trying to figure everything out. I'm need mine to run sickbeard and couch potato with sabnzbd and then transfer it all to my small NAS (2tb) until I get money for more room. It's just frustrating cause there so much info out there it's Harv to get through.

Also on a side note I can't figure out why but couch potato won't find any new movies for me. I can download shyt like goodfellas and even don Jon but when I tried 12 years a slave and others that I saw were available streaming on other sites nothing would get pulled to sabnzbd does anyone know what this might be?
 

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OK got a few things picked out:

For CPU I think I am going to go with
Intel Core i5-4430 Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.0 GHz 6 MB Cache LGA 1150 - BX80646I54430

And for RAM I think I am sticking with

Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 SODIMM 204-Pin 1.35V/1.5V Notebook Memory Modules For Mac CT2C4G3S160BM

And for SSD

Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE120BW





What you think?
 

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OK got a few things picked out:

For CPU I think I am going to go with
Intel Core i5-4430 Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.0 GHz 6 MB Cache LGA 1150 - BX80646I54430

And for RAM I think I am sticking with

Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3L 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 SODIMM 204-Pin 1.35V/1.5V Notebook Memory Modules For Mac CT2C4G3S160BM

And for SSD

Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE120BW



What you think?


the processor is great, I would go with the "k" models (k at the end) for overclocking. Pick your motherboard first and if u sticking with the cpu, pick a LGA 1150 socket board. The memory is laptop memory. They are very tiny. Are you building a regular pc or a small pc ? How big u going ?
 
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