Spec me the cheapest possible steam in home streaming client

[Noobie1987]

Hi,

I already have a Gaming PC which is capable of running most games on ultra settings, I now would like a small PC for under my TV to serve as a client "HTPC" for receiving Steam in-home Streaming.

The system has to be able to handle h264 video encoding as this is stated by Valve themselves for in-home streaming to work.

I am on quite a tight budget so as cheap as possible would be a great help.

Thanks

 

[teppic]

It's difficult to say because none of this is released officially yet.

Basically any modern system can handle hardware h264 decoding. An AMD APU system could be good as well as cheap, as it would let you play some games natively too (even some at max settings).

 

[alexhaslam]

If this is simply for in home streaming, it does not need to be powerful of fancy.

Without much thought put into it:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Lian Li PC-C60B HTPC Case - Black £166.99
1 x Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card £89.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £44.99
1 x Corsair Force LS Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F60GBLS) £41.99
1 x Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Topflow SR1 CPU Cooler £39.95
1 x OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM £39.95
1 x Asus A55BM-E AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £39.95
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (TW3X4G1333C9A) £37.99
1 x AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD5300OKHJBOX) £29.99
Total : £541.38 (includes shipping : £8.00).



No idea what spec home streaming needs, but this is probably overkill for it, I am sure other can improve upon.