budget HTPC / Media Centre

[Wombatinahat]

Hey guys,

I'm looking to build a small, always on media centre pc that I can use to watch HD media on my TV and stream to my Ipad, laptop etc. Not worried about an SSD as I'm planning to leave it on but would like a lot of HDD space 2tb or so would be ideal. This will only be used for watching movies and some light web use, no gaming or anything like that.

My budget for this is around £300-400 at the mo. Can I get what I'm after for this sort of money? I have been reading around the forums here but I'm still a bit unsure of what hardware I actually need to be able to pull this off and have it run smoothly.

Cheers for any help!

 

[Wombatinahat]

Would something like this be a good starting point?

Asus E45M1-I DELUXE AMD Hudson M1 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard

4gb ddr3

Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive

Antec VP350P 350W

BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case

 

[Wombatinahat]

Ok guys. This is what I am hoping will work. If someone could confirm this will do what I want it too that would be great! It needs to store and play HD movies via XBMC, streaming to Ipad and laptop would be nice too and a bit of web surfing. nothing much more than that. will this build be able to handle that?

Asus E45M1-I DELUXE AMD Hudson M1 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard - £129.98

Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) - £84.98

GeIL Dragon 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Module (GD34GB1333C9SC) - £17.99

BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black - £59.99

Antec VP350P 350W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply - £32.99

Xebec HTPC/Console Handheld Keyboard - £29.99

Thanks

 

[Wombatinahat]

Great cheers Robbie! I'll get that psu you linked instead.