HTPC/Encoding rig

[elroberto]

Building a new PC shortly. Apart from the everyday webbrowsing and office work this machine will mainly be used as a HTPC or encoding videos. Budget is below £350 all in. I already have 8Gb of Ripjaws DDR3 and will also be bringing an OCZ 650w modular psu into this new build. Gaming is not a priority and as such may be able to use my current ATi 4670 card. Case does not need to be a HTPC model.

Please spec away.

 

[Doomedspeed]

Can you push it to £400?


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £227.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £398.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).




If not drop it to a 2500k.

 

[honosuseri]

Intel would be your best bet. The i3 and above have quick sync which uses the IGP to boost video encoding (it works very well).

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x BitFenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £39.95
1 x Sandisk Ultra SSD 60GB 2.5" SATA-2 Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDH-060G-G25) £39.95
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £323.84 (includes shipping : FREE).



Not sure exactly what you need but that's under £350

The mobo supports USB3 and sataIII. The SSD is only sataII but it was cheap there was money left over if you wanted a sataIII SSD, I'm assuming you wanted a good sized HDD to encode to aswell?