K45 shuttle mobo has no undervolting or underclocking; OCing to max adds about 10W (1.6ghz vs 2.21Mhz) so will most likely just run it at 1.6ghz unless CPU becomes bottleneck

I'm converting my NAS into HTPC I think :)
this interface beats the crap out of the classic XBMC and certainly beats popcorn hour
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbm...1.exe/download

What's this XBMC thingy?

Media Center, awesome interface... best ever.





for building home NAS with free software http://freenas.org/freenas

So, install the FreeBSD distro and afterwards install the XBMC thingy, or how exactly does this go?

both are separate solutions; if you want a NAS to hide away: FreeNAS
if you want a HTPC either the XBMC live! CD or go Windows XP; some linux knowledge required to use XBMC linux version to add NAS functions