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Blue Cypher · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:17

AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX)
£95.99

Silverstone Grandia GD05 Desktop HTPC Case - Black (SST-GD05B USB3.0)
£74.99

Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
£69.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)
£59.99

OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G)
£43.99

OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply
£32.99

GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC)
£23.99

Total £401.92

This seems very good value for many for the htpc i am making, any suggestions?

stulid · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:20

Looks good,

My only suggestion is to swap the SSD for something bigger?

Craigus · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:23

Optical drive?

Blue Cypher · 5 Oct 2012 at 12:40

will be playing some games on it too so want a small ssd for the odd game and os, movies can be stored on the normal hdd and will upgrade as i need.

Yeah was looking at a blu ray drive but not sure which is best?

dunn2010 · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:33

nice blu ray drive below

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-107-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=314

theres an lg oem one for £75

honosuseri · 5 Oct 2012 at 14:11

stulid said:
Looks good,

My only suggestion is to swap the SSD for something bigger?

Oh! So you're going to fail to mention that trinity hates slow RAM today? Just pointing out your failings you don't have to like it

Blue Cypher said:
This seems very good value for many for the htpc i am making, any suggestions?

Does look quite nice, the Geil dragon RAM does overclock quite well and your mobo allows overclocking and HDMI output but faster RAM wouldn't hurt.

dunn2010 said:
nice blu ray drive below

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-107-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=314

theres an lg oem one for £75

OEM means he wont get the playback software. The bluray writer is probably not worth the extra cash to be fair, the blank media is expensive. A BD-ROM with a dvd-rw like THIS could still burn to DVD-DL disks which are much cheaper and still have a reasonable capacity. Difference in price between the two could go towards some faster RAM perhaps?

stulid · 5 Oct 2012 at 14:23

honosuseri said:
Oh! So you're going to fail to mention that trinity hates slow RAM today? Just pointing out your failings you don't have to like it

It was my only suggestion, I'm sure other people can suggest other changes.

Blue Cypher · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:04

Does look quite nice, the Geil dragon RAM does overclock quite well and your mobo allows overclocking and HDMI output but faster RAM wouldn't hurt.

So i will benefit by a decent amount from faster RAM then? what kind of speeds for RAm would be ideal for this build then?

stulid · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:06

Blue Cypher said:
So i will benefit by a decent amount from faster RAM then? what kind of speeds for RAm would be ideal for this build then?

The Trinity IGP uses system RAM, thus the faster you give it the better it performs.

You want 1866 or higher, what ever you think is a reasonable price I suppose.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=8&subid=1387&sortby=priceAsc

Blue Cypher · 5 Oct 2012 at 21:36

Hows thi RAM then? no reviews so not sure how it handles

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stulid · 5 Oct 2012 at 21:37

That will work.