Help with HD HTPC spec

[fozzybear]

I'm selling my laptop to build a HTPC capable of playing bluray. I need pretty much everything - mobo, ram, psu, case (can be a normal desktop case) and cpu. Are there any mobo's with on board gfx's? I'll also need an oem bluray player as well. It would be used with a 22 inch HD capable TFT. I'm been completely out of touch with the hardware scene for a year or so. I won't be using it for any games. I don't need an over the top spec. Just something that'll do the job well. There's no real price range. Ta!

 

[crazyDAJT]

if it helps, I'm looking at something like this:

Add a quite cooler

Add 2 TV cards with duel tuners and you can recored 4 programs at the same time,

my idea with this is to off load the storage to server with 3TB-7TB of storage.

the other option is to put it in a bigger case and with lots of storage, i have a spec for this, i will try and fined it for you

 

[crazyDAJT]

or

if you want to go a bit all out, this would give you 3TB of storage in a RAID5 configuration. don't know about the GFX card to be honist.

you could obviously, make the drives smaller, and change the case, if you are hiding it cupboard.

but you don't have much more room left if this one in therms of storage, but you could add another 2 more TV cards = 8 programs recording at the same time. thats probably all you could ever watch of digital.

and 2 other cards. sound card if you need it, don't know what the onboard stuff is like on this one