Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:01 pm Post subject: Upcoming Home Theater PC Build
I will be building a home theater PC soon and can't wait to see how it turns out. Here is the current spec sheet, I am trying to keep it under $1000 including shipping and it seems like I am right on the dime!
Options 1:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M Arctic White - $109.99
Processor: Intel Haswell i3-4330 - $160
Motherboard: ASRock Z87E-ITX Mini-ITX - $220
Graphics Card (Optional): MSI GTX 650 Ti Boost - $149.99
Power Supply: CoolerMaster i500 500w - $64.99
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB WD Black - $95
Solid State Drive (Optional): Corsair Neutron Series 2.5" 64GB - $100
Memory: G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 - $95
Total:
Minimum - $744
Maximum - $995
Option 2:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M Arctic White - $109.9
Processor: Intel Haswell i3-4330 - $160
Motherboard: ASRock H87M Pro4 LGA - $120
Power Supply: CoolerMaster i500 500w - $64.99
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM - $70
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL - $55
Wireless Adapter (Optional): TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 - $42.99
Total:
Minimum - $578.99
Maximum - $621.98
Option 3:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M Arctic White - $110
Processor: Intel Ivy-Bridge i3-3225 - $140
Motherboard: ASRock Z77M LGA 1155 Intel Z77 - $85
Power Supply: CORSAIR CXM series CX430M 430W - $45
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM - $70
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) F3-10666CL9D-4GBXL - $40
Wireless Adapter (Optional): TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 - $43
Total:
Minimum - $490
Maximum - $533
Hopefully this will help somebody out there who is looking to build a HTPC. _________________________________________________________
You can contact me at: LegendaryFire -at- 360-HQ.com
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:12 am Post subject:
thanks for the info, i bet it will help out someone looking for specs.. I'm still looking to get one of those ASROCK Mini HTPC's.. They are really nice.
Do you just plan on watching movies with it? Kind of a pricey jump if you just plan on doing that _________________________________________________________ The internet, a place where people expect you to know what they know.
Set up
47" LG HDTV
Xbox 360 slim 0225 TX PCB; xk3ys/1TB HDD
PS2 Sliver slim, Freemcboot
Dreamcast, Free Boot
PSP, cfw I forgot which
GCW Zero
RIP UnleashX Xbox needs new hdd
HP envy 17.3" i5 lappy w/22" external monitor
Do you just plan on watching movies with it? Kind of a pricey jump if you just plan on doing that
It could function as a PC if you wanted it too, this is very future proof as well. It supports all HD resolutions such as 1080p, 1440p and even 1600p when they start making TV's at these resolutions. Not only that but the integrated graphics in these chips are excellent (especially the Haswell Intel HD4600) so you will have no problem decoding all the latest and most demanding video and audio codecs for an extremely pleasurable video experience including things such as 7.1 surround sound. If you are not serious into home theater equipment then I would sooner just go buy a Western Digital TV Live device or something similar, but these HTPC's are one of a kind, especially when paired with the XBMC front end interface. _________________________________________________________
You can contact me at: LegendaryFire -at- 360-HQ.com
LMAO you should change your name to LegendarySellout. XBOX man, the best HTPC and you can buy and upgrade and pimp it out to the tits for like $75.
And to think you share my name and are deviating from THE XBOX lol
Short of impossible things like a BD drive a good ol'XBOX does the job. 720P/1080i rez, games, streaming, the works, and if you check out the news and such runs things much better now too.
Just saying, You SELLOUT LMAO
Grab me on Skype one of these days, even if it says "busy" thats just to deter the vultures
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Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:56 am Post subject:
SPPV wrote:
LMAO you should change your name to LegendarySellout. XBOX man, the best HTPC and you can buy and upgrade and pimp it out to the tits for like $75.
Ahem. _________________________________________________________ The internet, a place where people expect you to know what they know.
Set up
47" LG HDTV
Xbox 360 slim 0225 TX PCB; xk3ys/1TB HDD
PS2 Sliver slim, Freemcboot
Dreamcast, Free Boot
PSP, cfw I forgot which
GCW Zero
RIP UnleashX Xbox needs new hdd
HP envy 17.3" i5 lappy w/22" external monitor
LMAO you should change your name to LegendarySellout. XBOX man, the best HTPC and you can buy and upgrade and pimp it out to the tits for like $75.
And to think you share my name and are deviating from THE XBOX lol
Short of impossible things like a BD drive a good ol'XBOX does the job. 720P/1080i rez, games, streaming, the works, and if you check out the news and such runs things much better now too.
Just saying, You SELLOUT LMAO
Grab me on Skype one of these days, even if it says "busy" thats just to deter the vultures
Far from a sellout, the original xbox hardware is getting old no way around it, and the upgrade to spice up the speed is a fair amount more than 75 dollars. For a nice Xbox 1 with a 1.4GHz CPU and added ram, it would cost you roughly 500 dollars last time I checked, which wouldn't even be half the speed of the lowest spec'ed machine I listed. For the Xbox hardware, it does very well, but I did not expect I to last forever. My console will only play low-quality 720p video files and still stutters on some of the more graphical scenes. Not only that but the HTPC can play games as well, nothing is stopping it. If you want, you can even throw a graphics card into any one of the builds I listed and it would support all the latest up-to-date DirectX 11 games compared to DirectX 8 that the Xbox runs on. The HTPC is also capable of doing things like streaming, or acting as a cable box. Features like Netflix and other video devices are also ready to be put to use on these machines. They have a massive allowance for more storage room as with all the cases I listed they support several HDD's or SSD's. _________________________________________________________
You can contact me at: LegendaryFire -at- 360-HQ.com
LMAO I was just busting your balls. If somebody is actualy charging 500 to do an upgrade they got one hell of a racket going. 2 jobs pays for the equipment, then after that its 500 for like $50 worth of parts and time.
Something worth considering is going Linux, save money and quite a bit faster than windows. Only thing is just make sure theyve released drivers for the video card you plan on getting. I know AMD is pretty bad at releasing GPU drivers for linux in a timely fashion
I honestly didnt mean it as an insult, just a joke. Like saying you should go VHS and 8track. Sorry man, no disrespect, youre one of the best guys Ive met on any forum, let alone HQ.
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I'm still looking to get one of those ASROCK Mini HTPC's.. They are really nice.
