New HTPC components

mrochester · 8 Mar 2011 at 07:48

Hi all

Following on from THIS thread, after a bit more testing, I think I'm certain that it's something about the motherboard that is knackered. As such, I am going to buy a new mobo, processor and RAM which is exclusively for HTPC duties.

I'm heading along the lines of THIS board, THIS processor and THIS RAM.

Does this look OK?

Many thanks

Michael.

shannowdr · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:25

Just a thought.

Have you consider a AMD Fusion set up ?

mrochester · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:27

What benefit would that give me?

95thrifles · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:18

Its extremely low power

Subliminal Aura · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:27

Not extremely but much lower than a PC

Azra · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:43

Azra · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:44

Asus have a fusion board that has a heatsink instead of a fan over the CPU/GPU and when coupled with a seasonic x460 fanless psu and an SSD you have a low power ZERO noise set up!

mrochester · 8 Mar 2011 at 13:36

I don't really need anything low power and the price of a fusion setup is about the same as the more powerful Athlon II X2.