In one of my other posts, I tried to quiet a Shuttle SP35P2 Pro enough to be a good HTPC. It's a very pretty machine, but still, after a few fan mods, undervolting, and a few other tricks, a little ...
At the moment I have an aging Shuttle PC with a P4 3GHz Prescott, 1GB RAM, Hauppauge 350 and an nVidia 6600LE (AGP) using mythbuntu. It doesn't play 1080p content at all well (jerky, audio loses sync ...