Small Media PC

arturski · 4 Jul 2012 at 12:20

A mate of mine is trying to build a small media PC for his bedroom he didnt like the Acer Reevo so wanted to build his own. Got some parts together from ****** for total of £265 but i though you guys should come up with something better and cheaper or near enough similar price

here is what he got from ******.

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OCZ 32GB Onyx SSD 2.5" SATA-II - Read 125MB/s, Write 70MB/s 15000 IOPS £40.00

InWin BM639 Black MiniITX Case - 160W PSU
£50.82

Gigabyte GA-A75N-USB3 A75 AMD FM1 7.1 Channel HD Audio Mini-ITX Motherboard
£74.38

AMD Llano A8-3850 2.90GHz Socket FM1 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor£79.95

Kingston 4GB DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Blu Memory Module CL9 1.7-1.9V £20.00

Save Basket Cart total inc vat: £265.15

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Any suggestions?

Cheers

arad85 · 4 Jul 2012 at 12:23

What was wrong with the Revo? What software does he want to run?

arturski · 4 Jul 2012 at 12:31

not sure i think he just didnt likethe look of it and just wanted a challenge of building his own with newer tech inside

arad85 · 4 Jul 2012 at 12:46

My concern with HTPCs (and this may not concern your mate) is noise. I'd be looking at something potentially fanless (or at least that can survive with a quiet 120mm fan at very low revs) powered off a pico PSU or similar (no idea what the noise levels on that PSU will be). Some boards are now supporting m-SATA which is an even more compact way of getting your boot drive in there.

Depending on OS you might be able to get away with 2GB memory. I run all my HTPCs under Linux and even the ones that share memory with the GPU are fine on 2G.