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what's up guys Kyle here awesomesauce news welcome back this is part three of my HTPC series and in the first two videos I basically parted out the components for the system and I showed you guys a time-lapse video with some commentary of actually building that system but so now that in this video I'm actually gonna be showing you some of the performance and really just how I have it set up in my living room right now as you guys many of you guys know I moved to a new place here it is check out them digs so we've got a beanbag got a couple couches in there a couple cats laying around just ruining everything it's it's a great it's a great place to be and there's the other one but basically what I'm here to talk to you about today is the htpc of course and right now I have it connected to this beautiful LED TV it's an LG it's a 55 inch and it is LED LCD look at how thin it is it's probably just over an inch thick it's got plenty of inputs and right now the only thing connected to it is this htpc but it's pretty much the only thing that we need it to be connected to I mean this thing's got as you guys know already it's got a blu-ray player it plays games I even have the Xbox 360 wireless transmitter right there so I can play games with my Xbox 360 controller and that's actually been working out beautifully I'll show you a little bit of that in just a bit I also have my 2 terabytes Seagate hard drive connected to it I had to buy the enclosure separately the enclosures from Rosewell I did a kind of a review slash overview on that it's more of an overview actually you can check that out if you want but that's been working out nice that's kind of where all my storage goes if you want to know the model number for this TV let me actually bring it up on the screen here take a look at the model number 55 LM 4600 it is a 3d LED TV it's 55 inches 1080p the LG is advertising it as 120 Hertz it doesn't there it is honey 20 Hertz but it really isn't exactly pure 120 Hertz it's more like 60 Hertz that's kind of just a branding thing that LG is doing that's their true view or their true cinema version of refresh rate what they do is it's something called black lighting where they actually dim the frame very frequently rapidly so you don't really see as motion blur so it's it's kind of false advertising but I still haven't noticed any motion blur either when watching movies or playing games on this so far so it's been it's been a really good panel for me thus far and I got a super cheap on new egg it was on sale for like seven hundred bucks it was an amazing consumer electronics blowout sale a couple weekends ago so I pulled the trigger on that but that's been working really nicely with with this system here and if you remember correctly it's it's rocking a GTX 650 Ti boost so that's been more than enough to do some 1080p playback as well as some 1080 gaming on this guy so aside from that I know I know that you guys really want to see the temps for this guy because had some had some discussion earlier and in past videos about how the temps would do I was I was trying out a particular cooler the Samuel Samuel 17 for the first time and it's actually doing fairly well these are the idle temps this is just an image that I took a screencap I took of the temps at idle just about Oh 20 minutes ago so you can see there the maximum temperature was at idle is 40 degrees Celsius on core number one and if you guys care about the GTX 650 Ti temperatures it's 37 Celsius and that is the EVGA superclocked Edition now if you want to see the load temperatures over here I've been playing Borderlands 2 for the about the past half hour and so there you can kind of see the max temp is 56 degrees Celsius still fairly chilly and the Mishima caught the graphics card the 630 ti boost got up to 74 still very reasonable especially for being such a small form-factor case like I said earlier it's got a lot of ventilation especially on the side there you can see it's just got plenty of breathing room for that video card so it's going to be in taking a lot of fresh air and ejecting it pretty much out the back since that is a fairly enclosed enclosure on that video card and you've also got some ventilation up top for the power supply as well this thing has been working beautifully for me we've watched a ton of videos on it already played a bunch of blu-rays we've been streaming Netflix been playing some games mostly Grand Theft Auto 4 and obviously just a little bit of Borderlands earlier but so far I've been very happy performance let's talk about some of the peripherals that I'm using in tandem with the HTPC so this is a candy board from vision tech that I actually won geez I guess maybe last year at our new egg company picnic believe it or not and I think I mentioned this in one of my earlier videos hold on the cat sir cats are fighting I'm sorry I need to I need to just show you this really quick I'm easily distracted or do playing or just okay oh oh oh here comes the karate kick oh oh we're going for it Jesus you guys are vicious because you're animals anyway so this is the candy board it's working really well it works off of a RF RF transmitter it's actually plugged into my htpc right now up top and this is really nice because just super portable fits in the palm of my hand it's really nice also because it is LED backlit I'm not showing it right now but as LED backlit so it's great for when we're watching movies in the pitch-black dark I can see exactly what I'm typing it's very handy now for more intensive purposes I have this keyboard right here right over here this is a Logitech I forget the model number of this guy but it's got a really nice trackpad I'll put the model number up in the video right now and you can take a look at that but this is really nice the only thing that I wish it had was a LED backlight it's not LED backlit at all so but that's why I have the mini keyboard there on hand as well so and obviously it is much larger than the candy board that I have but it is also much nicer to type on because it is a full QWERTY keypad that I don't have to use just my thumbs I can just type like a regular keyboard and it works beautifully aside from that what else did I want to say oh yeah this keyboard is also very user friendly it's very it's very friendly with Windows 8 which is actually the operating system that I'm running the HTPC on I don't know if you guys can tell I actually installed these shell third-party software to create the Windows Start button so I have a Windows Start button in Windows 8 which is always nice and it does boot straight to the desktop so I don't have to deal with any funky Metro UI greeting me every time I turn the system on but everything is working beautifully like I said this is very user friendly to Windows 8 it's got a lot of Windows 8 shortcut keys as for the function button so you can see there's like the charms bar and search and the Metro UI button so it's a it's actually a perfect fit for this type of configuration aside from that I also have the xbox360 controller as I mentioned earlier that is being used in tandem with that wireless receiver over there and that receiver is really I mean it's dirt cheap I think it was like 10 or 11 bucks you can probably find them even cheaper I think I just got like a knockoff no-name brand and it's been working fine and let's see what else oh yeah I guess just a reminder of what's in the system itself as far as storage goes oh let me let me fix that for you just to just to show you guys right now in my C Drive my main drive is a 240 gig SSD is a Plextor m5 that's the only drive in that system right now and then of course that external Rosewill enclosure it's got a 2 terabyte Seagate hard drive in there it's filling up pretty nicely I still have some room to go before I need some expansion I think eventually I will probably get a nasa up in here so that my roommates and i can just drag files put files on it communally and we can just share them across the network that we have here but that's I think that's pretty much it guys oh yeah I did want to show you quick little quick little Borderlands special here here's my controller and I'm going to resume and kill people this is actually super awesome I'm not used to seeing I'm not used to playing a game on a TV and the graphics looking this amazing so I'm very very excited and this 650 ti boost is handling the crap out of everything I throw at it so far I haven't done any like hardcore Crysis 3 gameplay or anything like that but from all the games I've been playing like saints row you know all those controller friendly games it's been it's been working beautifully and I'm about to die so I do something ballsy kill people but if you guys are curious to know what the performance is like on a gtx 660ti i also did a video on reference 650 TI boosts I should say TI boost to be specific you can check that video out I also do an SLI comparison in that particular video so go ahead and watch that if you haven't already and that's pretty much going to conclude this video guys I hope you guys enjoy this this HTPC series that I've been doing it's it's been a lot of fun and I want to do more stuff like it's more hands-on bills as well so let me know what you guys think about my little configuration here if you guys have any suggestions of what other things would be cool for me to install on my HTPC in this living room that I have here and that's pretty much it thank you guys if you enjoyed this video please like the video it helps a lot subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in the next video