About to order bits for a HTPC

Andy298

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Been after doing this for a while now, and after doing extensive reserch, as I've not built a PC for some time now and not up to speed on the latest parts, I've decide to go with the following below...

MOTHERBOARD
Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H

CPU
AMD Athlon x2 4850e 2.5GHz

CASE
Black Antec Fusion Remote Media Center Case

PSU
OCZ 500W ModXStream PRO Modular

RAM
OCZ 4GB PC2-6400

OPTICAL DRIVE
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray/HD DVD-ROM

HARD DRIVES
2 X 750GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II

Having recently sold my PS3, media centre will more than likely be used mainly for blu ray. However I do have a lot of .MKV and XviD movies on my old PC that I'll be moving to the media centre. Does this spec seem decent enough to cope with my needs? Also is there anything else I should be looking at? A fanless CPU cooler or quiter PSU for instance?

Any info would be a great help, chaps :)
 
It looks good to me. It should play 1080p no problem. Is that PSU meant to be a quiet one? Also, it seems to work out a few quid cheaper to go for the 1.5TB seagate drive, or was you planning to RAID 1? :P
 
fobose said:
It looks good to me. It should play 1080p no problem. Is that PSU meant to be a quiet one? Also, it seems to work out a few quid cheaper to go for the 1.5TB seagate drive, or was you planning to RAID 1? :P
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Not sure if the PSU is quiet TBH? Reason I picked it is because I've had OCZ in the past and they've always been reliable. Plus it modular so I can keep the cables tidy.
Yep was planning on mirror set with the HDD's.

Are there any other PSU's I should be looking at then for a HTPC?
Also is it worth me spending that bit extra on a Phenom Quad, or is the 4850 good enough?
 
the chipset will do most if not all of the HD decoding for HD media, so the 4850 will be fine.

SD media will not stress a modern day cpu out at all
 
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