media centre build check

spark123

spark123

spark123

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Hi guys,

I am building a media centre for my wife. Please check the specs for me. Thanks a lot.


Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 "Special Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.98
(£166.65) £199.98
(£166.65)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE Shogun 2 Game £167.99
(£139.99) £167.99
(£139.99)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Champion Series 7.1 Sound Card (70SB088600005) £159.98
(£133.32) £159.98
(£133.32)
Lian Li PC-B25FW Midi Tower Windowed Case - Black £158.29
(£131.91) £158.29
(£131.91)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.99
(£87.49) £104.99
(£87.49)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £72.98
(£60.82) £72.98
(£60.82)
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £69.98
(£58.32) £69.98
(£58.32)
Corsair Vengeance 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit ***OcUK Exclusive*** £62.39
(£51.99) £62.39
(£51.99)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive - OEM Black £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
 
thx, that is definitely a good idea but I was trying to build the essential part first due to limited budge, and leave some space for future upgrading if possible
 
And also I was wondering, in terms of memory, is it worth going for 2*4G for the same purpose or 2*2G for now and probably another 2*2G later.
 
id get this, comes to almost the same as your build.

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thx, guys. my only concern about my build is whether I spend right amount of money on the right stuffs. The case is another story since it is probably the only way to stop her getting an apple. I was looking at the cube one too (cute!), but not quite sure whether there is sufficient space inside and it seems to me that the sound card I pick requires an extra bay at the front. I am thinking of having some hifi system connected to the pc, so I would like to spend some good money on the sound card(as pc is not well known as the sound source), and I am easy with the graphic card as long as it can handle latest games on high setting.
 
5850 will do the job fine and will save a lot of cash over a 480, the card you chose is very expensive, you need to watch some reviews, wait till tomorrow and see what others say. i dont think there is a need for a card so expensive, especially as the soundcard you listed is aimed at gaming not really htpc/audio
 
So, is this a Media PC or is it a gaming PC?
the two things are worlds appart.

A Gaming PC hooked to a TV?

EDIT, Sorry to put a downer on this thread BTW, but to my mind, a Media PC / HTPC, needs to be near as it can be to Silent, lots of space and a nice AMP Looking desktop case like the Fusion.
 
Thanks to danewesley's advice, I think I will go for this card instead, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-008-AS&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

This pc is not meant to be a heavy gaming machine, so I am not too concerned about the gpu(no more than 10% of time will be spent on games but good graphic quality does sound good) etc. Although I would like some cpu power so that she can do some editing as well.

Is there any solution that I can make this as silent as possible please?

Good to mention, the pc will be still running on desktop monitor :)
 
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