Erm - why the hell wpuld you invest $57.09 into a cooling system for a budget system designated to just play movies? boxed cooler added to CPU should be enough. You can easily save this money or idk - if it's about to be a guest room multimedia device - maybe get a Blu-Ray optical drive instead? ;)
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No need for optical drive, we have a media player. the point is we don;t have to burn stuff anymore because we have this HTPC then.
The cooler is optional and a lot cheaper in the netherlands, it's just that the stock might be really loud so that's why i'm consdering the aftermarket cooler.
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Hey, I have the same CPU and the stock cooler doesn't make any noise at all. Also, do you have Micro Center in Netherlands ? If you buy and AMD CPU there, you get $40 off for any compatible mobo for it.
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Well get another, its cheaper lel
Or if the other one isn't in use then use that.
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If you have technical know-how or can follow a guide, get Raspberry Pi or one of the alternatives (e.g. HummingBoard). Those are very cheap and excellent HTPCs. They just take some time to set up.
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Setting it up is the hard part. Looks pretty easy to use, if you install XBMC on it. At least based on this video.
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This is a better HDD. http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd1003fzex
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WD is not that good these days i have not had much luck with them and i know others who have not
the green ones are the worse i have had 2 and both have had bad sectors within 6 months to a year granted they have warranty but that is not the point
i would suggest
Hitachi hard drives i have not had any issues with the ones i have and i have one in my laptop and my pc
but that is imo
though you could always go SSD if they do not need a lot of space
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you ever think of mini itx with an AM1 platform you can get both the cpu and mother board for under 100
Asrock AM1 Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157490&cm_re=AMD_AM1-_-13-157-490-_-Product
AM1 Sempron Quad Core 1.3ghz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113366&cm_re=AMD_AM1-_-19-113-366-_-Product
just my thoughts as they have the Athlon or Sempron either would work as a media center and it would be quiet and would run just fine on a stock fan and the extra you was going to dump into a after market cooler you could use to get a
CM Elite 130 Mini ITX case
http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-itx-elite-series/elite130/ it supports standard PSU
i left out prices so you could look them up yourself as that would be easier
this is just thoughts it would keep things small,simple and quiet and no need for after market cooler and would be plenty of power to do HTPC imo
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damn that sucks that would have been perfect as it would have used little power and been super quiet
if it is going to be just for media center use and no gaming you could try an Intel Pentium G
one like this
Intel Pentium G3220
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116950
only other option you would have is either AMD APU if you want one with a APU
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Part list clicky
Hey all,
I would like some opinions on the part list i created for my budget HTPC build. Please keep in mind i'm from the netherlands (europe) which means prices are completely different than the US.
Please also note that the PSU is a placeholder, i needed to check if a full ATX PSU would fit the case, i actually still have an PSU laying around that i will use to keep the cost down.
The monitor will be the TV my parents have in the living room, the PC will be for downloading movies and series and playing them on the TV. The 1TB is definetly enough for now, my parents don't tend to keep all the movies and don't watch that many series.
Thanks in advance all!
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