Ace Modder's HTPC Project Log

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Hi guys.

I moved house last weekend, and to celebrate I'm building a HTPC with a decent sound system!

My new lounge looked like this 10 days ago.

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As of today it looks like this.

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I have removed all the horrid wood and wallpaper.

I have a plasterer booked for Monday, to completly replaster the walls.

Anyway here is a pic of the planned design etc.

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Onto the HTPC now!

I'm using the following:-

YOUR BASKET
1 x Streacom ST-FC10B HTPC Aluminum Case - Black £249.98
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARX) £79.99
1 x Streacom Nano 150w HTPC Power Supply/Adapter £77.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £71.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x Adata XPG SX900 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (ASX900S3-64GM-C) £60.98
1 x Streacom ST-IRRC Multimedia Remote and Receiver £19.99
Total : £730.31 (includes shipping : £9.50).



I have everything hardware wise apart from the case/psu and ssd.

Now onto the other hardware. I have already purchased an Onkyo TX-SR313 AV receiver. I am buying a set of Tannoy V4 2.0 Speakers and jhave already bought the Tannoy Mercury centre speaker.

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I have a 40" Samsung Series 6 LED 1080p TV, a PS3 and (once built) my HTPC running on it all.

I'm yet to decide on the sub and the rear speakers for the setup.

I will update you once I have more to show :)

Depending on my remaining budget at the end, I may get a projector too.
 
looks like a nice little project ace,would it be a idea if you got the same tannoy speakers for the rears ?

would make it look nice with matching speakers.

As for the sub,you can always hide that so it dont need to be the same make as the tannoy's.
 
I think I will most likely get tannoy rears too. But they can wait till the living room is plastered and decorated.
 
Also I do not intend to install an internal optical drive, will have a removable external drive, as i intend to add more HDD's to the HTPC as I build up my movie collection.

I have a PS3 for bluray discs. :)
 
The windows are going to have cloth pull down blinds so that won't be a big issue :)

The hardest decision is what new TV stand to buy. I keep looking but nothing grabs me.
 
Good luck Ace - nice little new years project!

whilst the walls are bare get a run of network cable in there so you can store films elsewhere and stream them to the HTPC. Will also help if you want to use online services :)
 
R088ieS86 said:
Good luck Ace - nice little new years project!

whilst the walls are bare get a run of network cable in there so you can store films elsewhere and stream them to the HTPC. Will also help if you want to use online services :)
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This. Moved my media collection onto a NAS after it was sitting on mutiple drives in multiple devices started to be a pain keeping track of where everything was, probaly one of my better investements was getting a NAS/Mediaserver especially as I can now access everything from all my devices :)

Also ment I could use a smaller SSD in my HTPC helping to quieten it down not having hard drives spinning in it.
 
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Really interesting to see your plans.
Please tell us that you are plastering over the hideous artex ceiling too
:)
 
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