Last week I decided to recycle an old computer case and bought some used stuff off ebay and built myself a movie server and thought I would share. The inside is lined with BQuiet sound deadener so you can not hear it running when it is turned on. The hardware consists of a ATI 7770 video card, AMD 6 core processor , 4g of ram and windows 7 with Media Center that serves 3 Xbox 360s and soon an Xbox 1. It has a program called Light's Out that lets the computer sleep unless an xbox is turned on which wakes the computer. When no Xbox's are on the server shuts down after 8 minutes of inactivity. I can access the server using RDC and can control it from my main system. The nice part is only one network cable and a power cord, neat and tidy.
