Building my first HTPC

Orion

Here's what I've put in my shopping cart so far:

Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AMD 690G+SB600, HDMI, Socket-AM2, m-ATX, DDR2, PCI-Ex16
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.7GHz Socket AM2 512KB, BOXED
Antec Fusion 430, Black, 430w PSU, HTPC, Micro ATX, aluminium front bezel
Samsung SpinPoint S166 160GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT, w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110, USB/PS2, keyboard/mouse, Retail
LG DVD±RW burner, GH20NS20, 20x, SATA, Black, OEM

Total cost - €465 + shipping.

I'll be mounting an NFS share from my main PC for streaming rather than having them locally - hence the 160Gb drive. And I've bought a PVR-350 on ebay already - that's on its way to me.

Any comments - am I forgetting anything?

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OS?
Anti-static strap?

I have a very similar spec almost ready to build - everything has arrived except the case - should have it by Monday.

Orion

OS = MythBuntu.
Have a static strap already.

adrian.s

Macros42 wrote: »

Here's what I've put in my shopping cart so far:

Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AMD 690G+SB600, HDMI, Socket-AM2, m-ATX, DDR2, PCI-Ex16
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.7GHz Socket AM2 512KB, BOXED
Antec Fusion 430, Black, 430w PSU, HTPC, Micro ATX, aluminium front bezel
Samsung SpinPoint S166 160GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT, w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110, USB/PS2, keyboard/mouse, Retail
LG DVD±RW burner, GH20NS20, 20x, SATA, Black, OEM

Total cost - €465 + shipping.

I'll be mounting an NFS share from my main PC for streaming rather than having them locally - hence the 160Gb drive. And I've bought a PVR-350 on ebay already - that's on its way to me.

Any comments - am I forgetting anything?

Looks good. I am planning on getting that exact board for a little project I have ongoing in this area as it's incredibly well spec'd for its price. I'd be very keen to hear back from you on your progress with it. If you were able to check the power consumption I'd be really grateful as I'm planning on the putting the board into a silverstone ml02 case which only comes with a 120W power supply.

If there's any help you need on the myth side of things, feel free to holler.

A.

Orion

I really can't see a 120W cutting it - look at http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html. Even selecting lowend stuff on that is over 200W.

Anti

Macros42 wrote: »

Here's what I've put in my shopping cart so far:

Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AMD 690G+SB600, HDMI, Socket-AM2, m-ATX, DDR2, PCI-Ex16
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.7GHz Socket AM2 512KB, BOXED
Antec Fusion 430, Black, 430w PSU, HTPC, Micro ATX, aluminium front bezel
Samsung SpinPoint S166 160GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM
OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC6400 4096MB KIT, w/two 2048MB PC6400 XTC, CL5-5-5-4
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110, USB/PS2, keyboard/mouse, Retail
LG DVD±RW burner, GH20NS20, 20x, SATA, Black, OEM

Total cost - €465 + shipping.

I'll be mounting an NFS share from my main PC for streaming rather than having them locally - hence the 160Gb drive. And I've bought a PVR-350 on ebay already - that's on its way to me.

Any comments - am I forgetting anything?

Oh god... Where to start..

Fail
Fail
Fail
Oh, and some more fail

You would honestly be better of buying a cheap dell, which will have more of everything, and a screen and a operating system installed. Or even... You could build a better and faster pc for less money. Check out the B&U forum.


*edit*

Ignore the power rating bollix.... Nvidia say i cant run tri-sli on anything less then 1.2kw... Well i managed it on 620w with 6hdds attached. Its not the Wattage your should be looking for, but the voltage on the rails !

Orion

Anti wrote: »

You would honestly be better of buying a cheap dell, which will have more of everything, and a screen and a operating system installed.

Point out a Dell that has a HDMI port onboard. And that ships with MythTV pre-installed on any flavour on Linux. And that ships with a 32" HD TV.

This is not a desktop pc - it's a HTPC.

Anti

Macros42 wrote: »

Point out a Dell that has a HDMI port onboard. And that ships with MythTV pre-installed on any flavour on Linux. And that ships with a 32" HD TV.

This is not a desktop pc - it's a HTPC.

Sorry to ruin your ego trip dude, but where in your above post did you mention there is a hdmi port and a 32" tv thrown in ?

And just to piss on yoru cornflakes, there are quite a few motherboards thats have hdmi built in...( oh yeah, the low end vostros do too.... for cheaper then you specced the above )

Next time, before you decide to be a cocky little shíte, come with some ammo..

Fo shizzle.

Orion

Anti wrote: »

Sorry to ruin your ego trip dude, but where in your above post did you mention there is a hdmi port and a 32" tv thrown in ?

Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H, AMD 690G+SB600, HDMI, Socket-AM2, m-ATX, DDR2, PCI-Ex16

It's the HTPC forum dude - where do you think you are?

Anti

:facepalm:

Orion

we've discussed this on irc - Anti is wrong - I'm right - the end*

*Anti may not agree

Anti

Macros42 wrote: »

we've discussed this on irc - Anti is wrong - I'm right - the end*

*Anti may not agree

Dont make me post cat pics damn you

km_corrigan

Macros42 wrote: »

we've discussed this on irc - Anti is wrong - I'm right - the end*

*Anti may not agree

Yeah he's totally wrong!! im reasearching a HTPC build myself and am going for a similar board (http://www.cpu3d.com/content/view/4283/54/) to yours but with a 9850 Phenom. Let me know how you got on with the build? Any probs with board etc.