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A Home Cinema PC is a personal computer that has been built to be used specifically to deliver high quality video and audio and to replicate as much as possible a Cinema experience in the home.

The guts of a Home Cinema PC are very similar to that of a conventional PC, being made up of a motherboard, processor, ram, graphics card, hard drives, case and power-supply.

However there are several factors that generally take precidence:

Firstly the main hardware components that are used need to be up to the task of delivering high quality video and audio, so you need a relatively high end CPU, graphics card and a digital sound card, preferably with a SPDIF digital output for connection to a A/V amp.

There is also the factor of aesthetics and noise.

A Home Cinema PC is generally built to blend in with more traditional A/V components so a specialist case is normally used. These are generally of a desktop design rather than the more poular upright design, as this allows the machine to be stacked in a rack.

Particular attention needs to be paid to potentially noisy components such as cooling fans, hard drives and any other moving components.

The joy of a Home Cinema PC is that it can adapt with your needs and can expand with your requirements.

With the right software it is possible to create a machine that will easily match high end dedicated components for audio and video quality.


EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Home Cinema PC A guide to the software and hardware needed for a Home Cinema PC (HCPC).