PC HTPC/SERVER Build list, What you thing ? Help

[Meridiusuk]

Hi all

Going to be building a pc for my HTPC system, The thing is its going to be running XBMC and full bluray rips and as you know full blurays need a lot of power to run as there very high bit rate.

Also it may be made redundent in the future and made as a server to run the 9 harddrives.

so the question is is this system perfect for running full bluray rips has it got the power and will i get no frame rate drops at all.

any suggestions welcome



Antec 300 Three Hundred, Black Midi Tower Ultimate Gaming Case w/o PSU

4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Classic DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 8-8-8-24, XMP, 1.65V

4 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI/Z4 Spinpoint F4EG, SATA 3Gb/s, 5400rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9ms, NCQ

750W Seasonic X-Series, Modular, 80 PLUS Gold, 90% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, Fan Cooling

Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BD-ROM & DVDRW Combo Player Retail box

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit SP1, Operating System, Single, - OEM

Intel Core i3 2100, 1155, Sdy Bridge, 3.1GHz, 5 GT/s, GPU 850Mhz, 3MB Cache, Core R 31x, 65W, Retail

Asus P8H67-M PRO Rev3, Intel H67, S1155, PCI-E 2.0 x16, DDR3 1333, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, mATX, VGA


I dont know if an i5 would be overkill over a i3 ? saying that i read somone is having problems playing some 1080p on a i3 540 Arcam_boy i think he is called

thanks for any help or thoughts you may give

cheers

 

[joxang]

If you're just using this as an HTPC and storage, i3 2100 and it's integrated chip are more than enough.

 

[Cycrow]

the i3 would most likly be fine

if not, u could always add a cheap gpu to do the decoding for you

my ION system does full blu rays without a problem, so u dont really need a lot of power

also, do u really need 750w, especially if your not having a powerful GPU
the i3's dont really use a lot of power

 

[hawker1986]

As the others have said the i3 will be fine, but also that 750W PSU is overkill, I would say 450-500W would be plenty even with the future 9 HDDs. My current HTPC is running a seasonic 380W PSU and its probably pulling about 100W at the wall.

Hawker

 

[Meridiusuk]

but you can not get seasonic gold any lower watts they only come as 660w or 750w and the 660w is £10 more than the 750W

i know i dont need that much but i have always went for a good psu well the gold versions.

the cheapest modular version is £70 at 520w and thats a bronze for the sake of £30 more for the gold i dont mind paying that, plus the gold versions are silent very silent i have a 650w in my machine now and the fan never comes on and just in case it needs it you can not hear it at all.