System for Steam Streaming

Cooners · 25 May 2014 at 20:28

Hi

I've been mucking about with steam streaming on an old laptop for a few days and I would like to build a cheap small box I can stick under the TV, plug a couple of xbox 360 controllers in and play steam games streamed from my gaming PC, it might as well act as a HTPC as well. Could anyone suggest either something good pre-built or some good parts to do this on the cheap.

Many Thanks

BinnsY · 25 May 2014 at 20:55

Something like this would do the job nicely.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Intel Pentium G3420 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £46.99
1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt £37.99
1 x Silverstone Milo ML05B HTPC Case - Black £33.95
Total : £309.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

You could go more powerful by upgrading the CPU to an i3, but it adds an extra £40 and I doubt you would notice the difference.

Defy Belief · 25 May 2014 at 21:03

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the spec matters at all as it's stream so can be a lot cheaper.

netbooks are even sufficient, pointless having 8gb ram and the like.

Something like an Intel NUC could be stuck on the VESA mount if you want it completely out of the way.

Cooners · 27 May 2014 at 21:15

Yes I was looking at those, the aim here is to do it as cheaply as possible but I don't want an old laptop or tower kicking about. Would really like to keep it under £200

BinnsY · 27 May 2014 at 21:37

You wont do a nuc build for less than £200, even the cheaper Gigabyte brix starts at £220 and thats before you add any storage at all.

If you really wantd to do it as cheapely as possilbe whilst avoiding the "old tower by the TV" syndrome, I dont think you are going to be able to do any better than this.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x Thermaltake Element Q mini-ITX HTPC Case - 220W Power Supply £56.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £35.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £31.99
1 x Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £29.99
Total : £223.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).

phazari180 · 27 May 2014 at 21:48

Looks like a good build BinnsY, only way I see you hitting the sub-£200 mark is by going with a Micro-ATX build instead. (Obviously this is going to be larger

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Danny75 · 27 May 2014 at 23:08

YOUR BASKET
1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt £37.99
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £29.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-252-SE) £24
1 x Aerocool Qs-101 Micro-ATX Case - Black £22.49
1 x Geil Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GV34GB1600C9DC) £19.96
Total : £179.02 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Note that the case is designed for both vertical and horizontal use, but also note it's pretty deep, so you'd have to check if it would fit without sticking out from under the TV too much.