Actually i would disagree, there is a performance boost, it may be small but still existent not only that the 99p head sink will increase the longevity of board, would highly recommend a heat sink i anyone is going to be overclocking there board and anything over 75C on a arm processor will start to...

I just wanted to make this thread for any noobie's such as my self what wanted to achive a plug and play xbmc device and have no previous know how about lunix First of all i tried using the raspberian download from this website, i then downloaded xbmc manually, along with samba, wireless drivers. I ...

Thanks for your advice, It's nice to hear from someone that knows what there talking about, I have indeed found a answer for this, The problem was windows. The following solved my problem and even with a ntfs i have seen a vast inprovment in speed, i decided to keep ntfs as i wanted to be able to us...

I have my samba set up to share my external hard drive, which is powered via the plug socket. I am getting a write speed of about 2 megabyte a second but a read speed of 300 kilobyte a second When plugged into my laptop i get speeds of about 30MB/s for read and write. I really needed at least 1-2 me...

I have managed to get it to work, i was missing an ntfs-3G module, which is required for a ntfs file system i am currently experiencing a new issue now i have the nas set up. I am getting 0.2-0.3 mb/s when reading but when writing im getting 1.5-2mb/s, which is alot faster, i really need higher read...

Hello, I have just recieved my raspberry pi, Its the B version with 512 Ram I plan on using it at my NAS as at the moment my media centre in the living room is constantly turned on and streams the files, mostly music round the house. I'm hoping to use my pi to do this instead. Alot of people have sa...

Hey,

Is there a way i can use the raspberry pi to stream my PVR computer to my upstairs tv using the pi?

I would like to be able to stream and control the downstairs computer using a generic remote.

Would it be good enough quality to watch live freeview on remote desktop? And would i have sound ??