First HTPC build

wingnut32

Hi, I ordered the following last night as I wanted a decent htpc that will also do for some light gaming. I built my last pc about 7 years ago:eek: so I have been away for a while. I have no experience with xmbc but I'm told that this is the route to go down, so how does this look:

8GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-12800U CL9
No HV20G331DE 46,10 € 1 46,10 €
ASUS P8Z77-V LE PLUS, Sockel 1155, ATX, DDR3
No HV1144UPDE 130,45 € 1 130,45 €
Corsair Neutron SSD 120GB SATA 3
No HV12CN12DE 114,33 € 1 114,33 €
Intel Core i5-3570K Box, LGA1155
No HV20Y35KDE 200,31 € 1 200,31 €
LG BH10LS38 Blu-Ray Brenner Retail
No HV207LS3DE 76,50 € 1 76,50 €
Special item: Silverstone SST-LC20S-M Silber ohne Netzteil ATX
No HV0483812001DE 150,54 € 1 150,54 €
WD Caviar Green 3000GB, SATA 6Gb/s
No HV13WCG3DE 123,89 € 1 123,89 €
XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition, 1GB GDDR5
No HV1032FUDE

I also got from komplett:

Scythe CPU Cooler Big Shuriken 2 Rev. B
Item #: 80010113 / Art. nr. fabrikant: SCBSK-2100
1in verwerking€44.95€44.95

Antec Earthwatts 380D Green
Item #: 80007058 / Art. nr. fabrikant: 0-761345-27384-8
1in verwerking€49.95€49.95

Arctic Alm. Polysyntetische Koelpasta 1.75 gram
Item #: 80009236 / Art. nr. fabrikant: AA-1.75G
1in verwerking€12.95€12.95

Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400

I got a copy of windows 8, how does this look? Is there anything else I need:)

Access

wingnut32 wrote: »

so how does this look

Expensive :eek:

There is a MultiMedia Barebone PC - €114.95 Delivered. [Amazon.de] in bargain alerts and a thread on here too about it.... just add some RAM and your windows 7 or 8 and it is more than enough power to run a full htpc.

Im currently running XBMC and other software off an old dell optiplex running XP that i got on donedeal for about €30, then added a hdmi graphics card and a cheap remote. All in for a total of €90.

Your shopping list there seems to be coming in just shy of a thousand euros! :eek: You could buy six barebone PCs as above inc all ram and software needed for that money.

My advice is cancel your order and just buy a smaller HTPC rig. 8 gig, an i5 processor and a machine that will probably idle at 200watts just is complete overkill in my mind... just my two cents.

wingnut32

Access wrote: »

Expensive :eek:

There is a MultiMedia Barebone PC - €114.95 Delivered. [Amazon.de] in bargain alerts and a thread on here too about it.... just add some RAM and your windows 7 or 8 and it is more than enough power to run a full htpc.

Im currently running XBMC and other software off an old dell optiplex running XP that i got on donedeal for about €30, then added a hdmi graphics card and a cheap remote. All in for a total of €90.

Your shopping list there seems to be coming in just shy of a thousand euros! :eek: You could buy six barebone PCs as above inc all ram and software needed for that money.

My advice is cancel your order and just buy a smaller HTPC rig. 8 gig, an i5 processor and a machine that will probably idle at 200watts just is complete overkill in my mind... just my two cents.

Thanks for your reply, I did mention that I would be doing a bit of gaming also, otherwise I probably would have went for the arctic although it is a bit overkill I admit!

Access

XBMC needs little to run... 2 gig RAM approx and only a quarter of that if running just on Openelec. (you wouldn't need windows if going the openelec route at all then cause it just boots directly into XBMC).

Fair enough, you will be gaming too and it is a very powerful and nice build you have planned there, but in my own personal mind its not worth the extra ~€750 just for the gaming end of things.

Even the guys on here running multiple sat and digital tv inputs into their machines for live TV wouldn't be spending anything over €500 for a full build.