Hi everyone,
I've decided that I'm sick of paying through the nose for Sky HD every month and I'm considering moving to a Freesat-HD/Freeview combination (also liking the thought of sky player (using a login for my parents sky account...) and iPlayer. I currently have a Sky Digital Minidish with two LNB cables.
Anyway, I've never built a HTPC before and intending to run Windows 7 MC on it. I've pulled together the below spec using mainly Scan.co.uk.
Any comments or obvious bad component choices? or any similarly priced substitute components that I should look at?
Thanks for the help!
Case
1 x Silverstone Milo ML03B Micro ATX, Black, Slim/HTPC Case - £46.98 [Scan.co.uk]
PSU
1 x 400W Colours IT PSUCIT400MICRO, Micro ATX, 80mm Silent Fan, ATX12V, Passive PFC - £18.67 [Scan.co.uk]
Motherboard
1 x Asus M4A78LT-M, AMD 760G, AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1600/1800, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, Micro ATX, VGA - £46.72 [Scan.co.uk]
CPU
1 x AMD Athlon II X3 445, Rana, Triple Core, S AM3, 3.1GHz, 1.5MB Total Cache, HT 2000MHz, 95W, Retail - £55.74 [Scan.co.uk]
Memory
1 x 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.65V - £41.07 [Scan.co.uk]
HDD
1 x 1TB Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green, SATA 3Gb/s, 5400+rpm, 64MB Cache, 8ms - £41.10 [Scan.co.uk]
FreeSat-HD Tuners
2 x Compro VideoMate S350 Digital Satellite TV Analog Tuner - £23.25 x 2 = £46.50 [Scan.co.uk] (One per PCI slot on motherboard)
Freeview Tuner
1 x KWorld PE355-2T V2 PCI-e Dual - £46.73 [Scan.co.uk] (First PCI-e slot)
Wifi
1 x Edimax EW-7612PIn 300Mbps Wireless 802.11 b/g/n PCI Express Adapter - £17.24 [Scan.co.uk] (Second PCI-e slot)
Blue-ray
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BD-ROM & DVDRW Combo Player Retail - £46.98 [Scan.co.uk]
IR-Receiver / Remote
1 x Windows 7 Vista XP Media Center MCE PC Remote Control and Infrared Receiver - £12.98 [Amazon.co.uk]
Total cost - £420.71
Any advice anyone can give would be great!!
Thanks,
Richard.
I've decided that I'm sick of paying through the nose for Sky HD every month and I'm considering moving to a Freesat-HD/Freeview combination (also liking the thought of sky player (using a login for my parents sky account...) and iPlayer. I currently have a Sky Digital Minidish with two LNB cables.
Anyway, I've never built a HTPC before and intending to run Windows 7 MC on it. I've pulled together the below spec using mainly Scan.co.uk.
Any comments or obvious bad component choices? or any similarly priced substitute components that I should look at?
Thanks for the help!
Case
1 x Silverstone Milo ML03B Micro ATX, Black, Slim/HTPC Case - £46.98 [Scan.co.uk]
PSU
1 x 400W Colours IT PSUCIT400MICRO, Micro ATX, 80mm Silent Fan, ATX12V, Passive PFC - £18.67 [Scan.co.uk]
Motherboard
1 x Asus M4A78LT-M, AMD 760G, AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1600/1800, SATA 3Gb/s RAID, Micro ATX, VGA - £46.72 [Scan.co.uk]
CPU
1 x AMD Athlon II X3 445, Rana, Triple Core, S AM3, 3.1GHz, 1.5MB Total Cache, HT 2000MHz, 95W, Retail - £55.74 [Scan.co.uk]
Memory
1 x 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.65V - £41.07 [Scan.co.uk]
HDD
1 x 1TB Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green, SATA 3Gb/s, 5400+rpm, 64MB Cache, 8ms - £41.10 [Scan.co.uk]
FreeSat-HD Tuners
2 x Compro VideoMate S350 Digital Satellite TV Analog Tuner - £23.25 x 2 = £46.50 [Scan.co.uk] (One per PCI slot on motherboard)
Freeview Tuner
1 x KWorld PE355-2T V2 PCI-e Dual - £46.73 [Scan.co.uk] (First PCI-e slot)
Wifi
1 x Edimax EW-7612PIn 300Mbps Wireless 802.11 b/g/n PCI Express Adapter - £17.24 [Scan.co.uk] (Second PCI-e slot)
Blue-ray
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BD-ROM & DVDRW Combo Player Retail - £46.98 [Scan.co.uk]
IR-Receiver / Remote
1 x Windows 7 Vista XP Media Center MCE PC Remote Control and Infrared Receiver - £12.98 [Amazon.co.uk]
Total cost - £420.71
Any advice anyone can give would be great!!
Thanks,
Richard.