wanting a sff for media centre £400 budget

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anyone tell me if this is reasonable?

looking for something that can support hdmi output and do all the general tasks that i use my 360 media centre for along with some playing emulators and some basic web surfing etc
 
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Alternatively if you wanted something a little cheaper and abit more energy efficient you could go for the spec below which can be made even cheaper if you drop the ram to something like 2gb value and the hdd to 320gb if 1tb isnt required, this spec would also meant the internal power supply in the case wouldn't be needed and could be removed.

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on the first spec wouldnt you also need a low-profile cpu cooler?

other than that, excellent specs :) the second one has a "dual core" atom ;)
 
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slight change in thinking


wifey wants BluRay (she's going to move the bluray player out the living room into the bedroom


sorry to be a pain :) budget up to £500 and must include HDMI outputs (audio and video) and be bluray capable
 
I'd be interested to hear how this performs as I am interested in building a htpc system for running HD content.
 
I have the Zotac IONITX-A-B motherboard. It runs fairly quickly for the most part. The only real problem I have has is playing back high definition videos. I was unable to get PowerDVD to use the Purevideo HD aspect of the graphics card but I was able to get Arcsoft Total Media Theatre 3 to play back almost anything (even full 1080p content).

Are there any benchmarks or the like you would like me to run?

I have XP SP3 & Xubuntu running on it. It has a Samsung F1 1TB hard drive & 2GB of 800MHz RAM.
 
It's mainly the full HD media i was interested in. I assume its just struggles as the nVidia chips is powerful enough?
 
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