As I mentioned I plan to rebuild a old HTPC with newer hardware.

I still plan to use it as a regular PC on occasion so I dont want it to boot directly into a media player.

With that being said, how many of you tweaked your windows to give it a more "10 foot UI" look to it? If you did, what exactly did you do and did it work well??

I am looking to make my windows minimalist but functional at 10feet... and not look like a bigger desktop!!

Hope this makes sense!

Anyone here use a E5-16xx or E5-26xx Xeon in their HTPC build?

I have a spare X99 board collecting dust I want to upgrade my old HTPC with and wanted to see how they perform for playback. I don't plan on doing any type of transcoding....

I currently only use my HTPC on a 1080p TV but soon plan to go 4K. I'm rocking a GTX 1050ti and not even sure that is enough for 4k..