[HTPC] Oberon

[Sliver X]

I finally replaced my aged Core i3 2120 HTPC with something more modern. I went with a Sega theme for it.

The boot screen (The moon Oberon orbiting Uranus in a scene like the US Sega CD BIOS)

The mITX case it resides in.

Here's a Youtube video of my GameEx setup running on it. I didn't bother recording sound since I figured it would just immediately get hit with a copyright claim.

[tthurman]

That's an impressive setup you've got there, as is the ease of which you navigate the GameEx menus   Love the case!

What system specs are you running?

 

Great video, thanks for sharing!

 

[Sliver X]

Case: Silverstone ML07
CPU: Intel Core i3 9100F (overclocked to 4GHz base)
MB: ASRock H310M-ITX/ac motherboard
GPU: eVGA GeForce GTX 1650 Super
RAM: 16GB Corsair DDR4-2400
PSU: Silverstone 350W Bronze (SFX form-factor)
NVME: 256GB Silicon Power
SATA SSD: 1TB Sandisk
HDD: 4TB WD Blue 7200RPM (64MB cache)
Optical: TEAC DVD+RW slim (Slotload)
NET: Intel Gb NIC, Intel 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2
Input: 4x Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Display: 42" 1080p non-HDR TV @ 60Hz via HDMI
OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019
GameEx 16.43
42 emulated platforms, >130 Windows/DOS Games
Management: Kodi as file manager/SFTP login to machine

The OS has been stripped down severely using a utility called NTLite, removing over 150 components. The total install size is 4.75GB (7GB without NTFS compressing the drive) with barely anything running in the background.

I made the theme from a looping video file I found online and making a PNG overlay (The control legend at the bottom, etc) that I then encoded over it with ffmpeg.

I've been using GameEx since 2009, I think, across 5 different media PC designs I've done. I've built setups with things like Kodi, MaLa, Wah!Cade, etc, but I keep coming back to it.

[Sliver X]

I've done a lot to this. hardware and software-wise, and now consider it complete:

Case: Coolermaster Elite 130
CPU: Intel Core i5 9600K
MB: ASRock H310M-ITX/ac motherboard
GPU: eVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4-2667
PSU: eVGA 600W Bronze
NVME: 256GB Silicon Power
SATA SSD: 2x1TB Sandisk (RAID 0)
HDD: 4TB WD Blue 7200RPM (64MB cache)
Optical: LG BD-RW/DVD+RW/CD+RW
NET: Intel Gb NIC, Intel 802.11ac WiFi/Bluetooth 4.2
Input: 4x Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Display: 42" 1080p non-HDR TV @ 60Hz via HDMI
OS: Windows 10 LTSC 2019
GameEX 12.44

A video of its GameEX setup running.

[Draco1962]

Sexy rig and stats! Thanks for sharing with us! I am digging the theme work as well!

[tthurman]

Super nice!

Hope you don't mind, but I've posted your video here for everyone to see how great this runs!