£450 HTPC spec

shinester184 · 23 Nov 2009 at 23:20

Sup guys.

We're looking at getting a HTPC for a media room with a budget of around £450. It needs to be capable of blu-ray play back and needs relatively high storage space for films, 500GB is fine. Also needs to include Windows 7 and I quite like the look of the Antec Fusion Remote htpc case. Otherwise, I'm not too sure as to what to put in it...

Cheers.

cmndr_andi · 23 Nov 2009 at 23:26

How does this look?

InkZ · 24 Nov 2009 at 00:03

785G mobo with a low power x2 athlon. 2GB RAM, 1TB, sythe mini ninja passive.

Should get all that in budget I think, awesome awesome setup. Run media portal and you'll get all the hardware decoding from the 785.

shinester184 · 24 Nov 2009 at 06:45

Cheers guys, liking it.

Morfik · 24 Nov 2009 at 13:45

As posted above. Using a low power athlon with a passive scythe ninja mini and an Antec case along with a Samsung drive. The CPU is cool and the system silent. Just what you want for an HTPC.

shinester184 · 24 Nov 2009 at 18:14

Thanks guys, although just wondering if it'd be possible to route the audio of the film through the TV speakers? It's a 42" Panasonic with a good sound system. Is it possible to do this? Or do I need a motherboard with a HDMI output?

Also, is any square mobo like the one above ok in terms of size for the Antec Fusion Remote as it says on the website it has a 'MicroATX Form Factor' ?

EDIT: Just realised that the above specced mobo does have HDMI, but will it still send out sound to the TV?

Cheers