"Media center PC/ Barebone"

Miateddy

Hi, I am looking to buy a media center PC for my living room, it need to have a TV tuner and great graphic for gaming, anyone might have got one of those and can give some feedback?
I looked around and saw there's a new one coming out in mid june called ARCTIC MC101. looking nice and fast with the AMD APU trinity A10, said its great for gaming....what do you think?:D

Sholden

Miateddy wrote: »

said its great for gaming....what do you think?:D

It doesn't come with a good graphics card. A 6870 would be the minimum to play new games.

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deceit

Sholden wrote: »

It doesn't come with a good graphics card. A 6870 would be the minimum to play new games.

A 6870 would only be a minimum to play the latest games if you wanna play on 1080p with all settings maxed on a high framerate. Otherwise you could get by on much lower.

Sholden

deceit wrote: »

A 6870 would only be a minimum to play the latest games if you wanna play on 1080p with all settings maxed on a high framerate. Otherwise you could get by on much lower.

Yes but it would be "great" for gaming. The one that comes with it would not.

Daveman50

Sholden wrote: »

Yes but it would be "great" for gaming. The one that comes with it would not.

Actually, the graphic is evry good, and there are many good reviews on the processor. Check it out!
http://www.futuremark.com/news/60791_amd_trinity_a-series_apu_launched/

Miateddy wrote: »

Hi, I am looking to buy a media center PC for my living room, it need to have a TV tuner and great graphic for gaming, anyone might have got one of those and can give some feedback?
I looked around and saw there's a new one coming out in mid june called ARCTIC MC101. looking nice and fast with the AMD APU trinity A10, said its great for gaming....what do you think?

Hi Miateddy, you can have a look at the reviews in the links above. They made quite a few tests on the processor of trinity A series and actually show promising.
Regarding the ARCTIC MC101, you mentioned, I think it's quite good for what it is, of coz for the processor, which I think its powerful. For gaming, I would say, 95% of the new games. TV tuner, for sure is cool! 1TB is quite a massive storage but I guess you can always add your own and 8GB RAM, nice design .....with the price I think is a good deal....
I have a Macmini but with the same price, I only got a very basic model only 2RAM and little storage and processor is ok.

I hope this is helping! good luck!

Sholden

Daveman50 wrote: »

Actually, the graphic is evry good, and there are many good reviews on the processor. Check it out!
http://www.futuremark.com/news/60791_amd_trinity_a-series_apu_launched/

Specs i got were different :rolleyes:. On the site i saw it said 6350 i think