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Hi All.
I'm looking at building a small media server PC that I can put under the stairs and leave to do its thing. It should be able to run as a media server for the house, I also use Plex and wish to install a Plex server on there, which will be accessed via means of a Chromecast on the living room TV. I'm going to use FreeNAS to facilitate file sharing and Plex.
I've had a look around and came up with the following parts list.
The case comes with a 160W PSU, I think the draw will be closer to 120W so all should be good there. One question I did have, is do I need to buy a CPU cooler? The last time I built a PC from scratch retail CPU boxes came with stock coolers, I don't need anything else so if that's still the case I'll be happy but if not can anyone recommend a CPU cooler compatible with the mini-ITX form factor?
I'm looking at building a small media server PC that I can put under the stairs and leave to do its thing. It should be able to run as a media server for the house, I also use Plex and wish to install a Plex server on there, which will be accessed via means of a Chromecast on the living room TV. I'm going to use FreeNAS to facilitate file sharing and Plex.
I've had a look around and came up with the following parts list.
- Case - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-043-IW&groupid=2362&catid=2279
- Motherboard - Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI AMD A88X (Socket FM2+)
- CPU - AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor
- RAM - GeIL Black Dragon 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11
- HDD - Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
The case comes with a 160W PSU, I think the draw will be closer to 120W so all should be good there. One question I did have, is do I need to buy a CPU cooler? The last time I built a PC from scratch retail CPU boxes came with stock coolers, I don't need anything else so if that's still the case I'll be happy but if not can anyone recommend a CPU cooler compatible with the mini-ITX form factor?