spec check for HTPC components

[rangor gubbins]

I keep getting OS corruption on my old HTPC and I can't identify the problem, so going to upgrade all the components.
Planning on these:
CPU - AMD A-Series A4 4000 Trinity Socket FM2 3GHz 1MB L2 Cache
Mobo - Asus F2A55-M LK Socket FM2 VGA DVI 8 Channel Audio mATX
RAM - Crucial 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
PSU - Antec VP 350W PSU
SSD - Crucial 64GB V4 SSD

Housed in my old Antec Veris Fusion Remote case with old DVD drive.

Will be running XBMC in some form or other. Anyone know if the antec (i.e. Soundgraph imon) remote works better with XBMC these days?

 

[rangor gubbins]

Mods, could you move this to the SFF forum as probably more appropriate there.

 

[rangor gubbins]

Looks good.
I was also looking at that same motherboard, but had to discount it because there is no mention of S/PDIF headers. Are you just using HDMI to output your audio?

What case is that?

 

[rangor gubbins]

in the end went for:
intel G1610
ASRock H77 Pro4-M
Crucial 4GB DDR3 1333Hz
Antec 350 VP PSU
then added a nvidia EVGA G210 1GB DDR3 VGA DVI HDMI Passive PCI-E (as heard that intel graphics have a framerate glitch with linux / xbmc).
still putting it together. Boots into bios so thats a good start, but not installed an OS yet (job for next weekend).
not sure whether to stick with the 'iMon' remote control that came with the case, or buy an MCE remote.

 

[rangor gubbins]

At moment I'm intending to install XBMCbuntu on my main media centre in the sitting room. Used it before and it was generally great (apart from repeated OS corruption but i think that was probably due to some hardware fault).

If i get round to having a Raspberry Pi media centre upstairs I will probably stick openelec on it. I assume it won't be too tricky to get the Rasp Pi + OpenElec to turn on the media centre downstairs via my network in order to stream media from it.
Anyway, that'll be a project for when I have a bit more free time.