AMD Fusion HTPC Spec Check

welshdragon · 28 Apr 2011 at 16:28

Right, as some may have seen I have been agonizing over what to do for a htpc build. I was all in favour of the ASRock ION 330 until I found these. What do people think?

ASRock E350 Fusion Board
4gb DDR3
Antec ISK-100 case incl 90w psu
250gb WD 2.5" HD

Comes to near as darn it bang on £200.

Thoughts anyone? Toying with the idea of a small ssd as all media located on my network but that pushes up the cost by about £40

Mr.Fantastic · 28 Apr 2011 at 17:31

I am doing the same with Lian li v351 which i have doing nothing so i should have the stuff on Tuesday, got almost everything setup regarding software side just need to built it over next week but i have some plans to mod the case for more hdd space.

welshdragon · 28 Apr 2011 at 17:39

What will you be running software wise? Think I'm going to go for Win 7 with XBMC.

Mr.Fantastic · 28 Apr 2011 at 17:43

Same, i am running xbmc now so all i need to do is install the program and copy the folder over which stores all the images, skins etc so there is no messing around to do.

welshdragon · 28 Apr 2011 at 18:16

Cool. I've never used XBMC before. My movies etc are all on the network. Will it scrape the movie info and fan art and store it locally. Or will it edit the nas drive?

Mr.Fantastic · 29 Apr 2011 at 01:05

I am not sure tbh because it stores the fanart/logos/clearart in the folder the show is located.

welshdragon · 30 Apr 2011 at 17:23

Cool. I've also heard about Plex and also Boxee. Bit confused which is the best to go for.