Finally Ordered my HTPC

[Conanius]

CPU, Mem + Mobo
£94.99 x 1 - Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
£33.99 x 1 - OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK)
£64.99 x 1 - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

GFX
£41.99 x 1 - PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO SCS3 SILENT 512MB DDR2 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Storage (boot + raid 5 storage array)
£27.99 x 1 - Samsung SpinPoint S 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD16
HJ)
£38.99 x 4 - Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)

Optical Drives
£14.99 x 2 - Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Sound
£24.99 x 1 - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI-Express) (30SB082000000)

Case + PSU
£69.99 x 1 - Lian-Li PC-60B PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
£46.99 x 1 - Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU

Misc
£14.99 x 1 - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
£5.99 x 1 - Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
£4.99 x 7 - Akasa SATA-2 60cm Silver Data Cable

Got a Hauppage TV card to drop into it also.

All in all, very pleased and looking forward to its arrival tomorrow AM !

 

[DJMK4]

Nice Im waiting to make that move, im re-decorating my room and instead of getting a new set-top box iv decided to build a HTPC, im just waiting for abit of money to come in

 

[Conanius]

arrived at 8:30 this morning. Result.

All built, but the sata power leads wont reach to plug in all the devices. nipping out to get 2 molex -> sata power convertors and then i'll be firing it up !

First impressions are that I needed a bigger case !