HTPC - Please give me your thoughts
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Im glad you got your build sortedIntel was the better platform
Haha yeah that was just a random guess.
Yeah i think the AMD would have sufficed but i couldnt bring myself to buy an AMD to be frank. it's like buying smart price beans when you can buy heinz for a few pence more.
I hope AMD get their **** together soon though i have high hopes for zen.
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I'm glad you didn't opt for these ridiculously overpriced NUC systems. It seems like the only ones defending them are the mugs who bought them.
If you want something that small and have the cash then folks shouldn't be recommending an NUC but exactly what OP has done and go mini ITX or micro ATX motherboard to reap the benefits of full size spec features!
If you want something that small and have the cash then folks shouldn't be recommending an NUC but exactly what OP has done and go mini ITX or micro ATX motherboard to reap the benefits of full size spec features!
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I agree with the ITX route.
I have a huge Thermaltake Mozart TX case and that can take a second PC, but ITX based, and so I decided to plonk one in just for a giggle, and while I was doing it, I bought a tiny little case just to put everything in ( knowing that I would transfer it later on ) the ITX setup that I did knock up, was a Core2Duo based jobbie, and the entire thing, I knocked up with buying the Mobo and CPU used, the HDs I already had, however, I ended up buiyng both a 120GB SSD and a 1TB LaptopDrive, and the case new, but the rest I had lying about, and in the end, I kept it in that little case ( its still in there ) and in my bored moments, I tried OSX and as it just so happens, it runs, and is running Tosemite 10.10.6 absolutely lovely, so its staying as-is.
My most recent build, again, with the intention of filling the Thermaltakes second slot, has also turned into a different PC than I intended it to, purely because its turned out to be a better system than I expected it to be, and it has now replaced my I5 as my Linux PC... Thats an AMD A10-6800K based thing, that again, I bought second hand along with a Gigabyte ITX Mobo and the case a coolermaster from the OCUK here MM for only 20 notes and its immaculate, the PSU is only a basic cheapie, again, SSD and 2GB but again, they were already here, the RAM is DDR 3 and so thats cheap enough to not worry about and there we go! - a fairly quick half decent setup that was knocked up at under a ton... Had I got a new HD, it would have still been under 150.
Ok, not brand new, but why buy new when there is often a great choice in the used market?
I have a huge Thermaltake Mozart TX case and that can take a second PC, but ITX based, and so I decided to plonk one in just for a giggle, and while I was doing it, I bought a tiny little case just to put everything in ( knowing that I would transfer it later on ) the ITX setup that I did knock up, was a Core2Duo based jobbie, and the entire thing, I knocked up with buying the Mobo and CPU used, the HDs I already had, however, I ended up buiyng both a 120GB SSD and a 1TB LaptopDrive, and the case new, but the rest I had lying about, and in the end, I kept it in that little case ( its still in there ) and in my bored moments, I tried OSX and as it just so happens, it runs, and is running Tosemite 10.10.6 absolutely lovely, so its staying as-is.
My most recent build, again, with the intention of filling the Thermaltakes second slot, has also turned into a different PC than I intended it to, purely because its turned out to be a better system than I expected it to be, and it has now replaced my I5 as my Linux PC... Thats an AMD A10-6800K based thing, that again, I bought second hand along with a Gigabyte ITX Mobo and the case a coolermaster from the OCUK here MM for only 20 notes and its immaculate, the PSU is only a basic cheapie, again, SSD and 2GB but again, they were already here, the RAM is DDR 3 and so thats cheap enough to not worry about and there we go! - a fairly quick half decent setup that was knocked up at under a ton... Had I got a new HD, it would have still been under 150.
Ok, not brand new, but why buy new when there is often a great choice in the used market?