Hi, I'm thinking of building an HTPC for my living room.
It's my first time and I'm a girl (eheheh) so bear with me ;)
I don't wan't to spend more than 300?, and I'm only gonna use the HTPC to play movies (mkv, divx, x264) and do some retrogaming. I also need this HTPC to be able to catch the wireless signal from my other pc (they're gonna be 10m apart, with 2 walls in between them).
After some research I've come up with this configuration:
NOX Media Black
ECS A780GM-A AMD780G SKAM2
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ - 2,6 GHz, Cache L2 1 MB Socket AM2 (possibly I can downgrade this to a 4850E so I can save some money)
KINGSTON 2GB DDR2 800MHZ
Samsung 320GB Spinpoint F1 DT SATA Nec/ Sony AD-5200S 20x DVD Writer Dual Black
Asus WL-138G V2
LC Power Silent Giant 420W
This config costs me something like 315?.
Any suggestions? Upgrades/downgrades? Please be free to save me some money :P
You can also suggest a whole new configuration, I'm receptive to them.
no lag with hd. My motherboard is the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. I am also running a Raid 0, so my hard drive speed is faster.
I just upgraded my PC with new stuff (almost everything), and the leftover parts I built this HTPC. All I had to do was buy a new case. So I have been using the same motherboard, CPU, memory, hard drives for a couple of years now as my media server. Never had an issue.
The case I bought (for the HTPC) was a silverstone brand. It looks like a stereo, and fits right in with the entertainment system in my livingroom. Still, for me, it's main purpose in life, is a media server. I have 4 Tvix media players connected to it throughout the house, which I use those to watch my movies/TV series with.
