This any good for HTPC?

blue4ice

blue4ice

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I am looking to build a HTPC using this spec: -

Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT667D2) £25.99
(£30.54) £25.99
(£30.54)
Asus Pundit P2-M2A690G Barebones System - AMD64 (Socket AM2) £83.99
(£98.69) £83.99
(£98.69)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM £20.99
(£24.66) £20.99
(£24.66)
Sub Total : £130.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £24.49
Total : £164.41

I already have a HDD and DVD drive. What particularily draws me to this is that it has a HDMI connection on board.

Any thoughts? (I know I need a CPU cooler as this chip is OEM. Any recommendations or should I pay the £20 more and get the next chip up, retail boxed?

Ta
 
Good value and more than OK unless your going to use HD video content now in which case it might struggle with decoding smoothly the most challenging formats (many would be fine with the right drivers and codec).

A faster cpu would help if you recode a lot of video content, but everthing stadard is very dooable on that spec and the onboard hdmi and 690g chipset is very convenient..

Its not going to be particuarly quiet.

I suspect a heatsink comes with the case, you need to check.

If not Artic cooling and others do low or lowish profile coolers.

Thers only one ide connector so your dvd and hdd will have to share if therie both ide.
 
errata said:
Good value and more than OK unless your going to use HD video content now in which case it might struggle with decoding smoothly the most challenging formats (many would be fine with the right drivers and codec).

A faster cpu would help if you recode a lot of video content, but everthing stadard is very dooable on that spec and the onboard hdmi and 690g chipset is very convenient..
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That's fairly similar to my HTPC and I can attest that a 2.0 Ghz X2 has more than enough grunt to decode 1080P H.264 videos. The onboard graphics chipset should help it along with hardware decoding.
 
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