Possible HTPC

[Derek W]

Been thinking about this for a wee while now and I'm wanting to get some ideas for setting up an HTPC where i can stream films from my NAS wirelessly. Initial thoughts were to get something like the antec fusion to chuck under my tv (so it just looks like another DVD / Blu-ray player rather than another pc in the lounge.

Dont really have a budget in mind, but dont want anything too expensive and it would be a nice little build project for me at the same time.

I'm open to suggestions

 

[lsg1r]

amd llano or e350/450 based rigs would be the direction I'd look due to all in one cpu/gpu.

If you have hi10p then you may need a little more grunt from a llano rather than the e350/450 boards as they don't use the gpu, pretty much all other codecs now use dxva so it would use the built in gpu's.

You could make a nice mitx based rig for around £400-500 if not less depending on spec and any left over bits (we all have them lol)

 

[Derek W]

cheers, I'll take a look into that tonight after work.