Dave FR PD130
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Hi all,
I've wanted to do this for a while and finally I'm going to bite the bullet! I'd really appreciate it if you guys could take a look at my requirements/spec and suggest alternatives if deemed needed or suitable? Although I work in IT, it's been a LOOOONG time since I looked at building a PC from scratch, so if I've made a stupid mistake below I'd not be surprised!
My requirements for my build are the below:
Draft Spec at present:
Case wise I'm still undecided but like the look of the Silverstone LC20B, so maybe someone knows of a good case similar to those? Price wise I'd like to keep it less than £100 for the case and PSU if possible.
I've wanted to do this for a while and finally I'm going to bite the bullet! I'd really appreciate it if you guys could take a look at my requirements/spec and suggest alternatives if deemed needed or suitable? Although I work in IT, it's been a LOOOONG time since I looked at building a PC from scratch, so if I've made a stupid mistake below I'd not be surprised!
My requirements for my build are the below:
- Blue Ray Playback 1080p
- I assume a normal Blue Ray drive can rip Blue Rays? I appreciate i'd need software but i have a lot of discs I'd like to backup and retain on HDD.
- Audio would be handled by my Onkyo TX-NR609 so would need to go over HDMI and be uncompressed so the amp can do all the work
- Not fussed about 3D video - gives me a headache anyway! lol
- I'll be adding a cheap video capture card for CCTV recording with I'd leaving running pretty much 24/7, so would need to be man enough to record video and also play blue ray's at the same time
- I've also made an Amblone (ambilight DIY controller) so the machine would also need to be able to be powerful enough to handle this software running while the movie is playing
- I'd like it to be SATA 3 and include 2 x 2TB hard drives which I could setup as RAID1 or similar
- I'd like USB 3
- Ideally would like it to run fairly quiet...Xbox 360 is too loud, if that helps determine fans/psu requirements?
Draft Spec at present:
- AMD Trinity A4 5300 Dual Core Processor, 3.40Ghz
- Alpine 64 Pro Rev.2
- Gigabyte GA-F2A75M-D3H
- Corsair Vengeance RED 2 x 4GB 1866Mhz DDR3 Memory
- 2 x 2TB Hard Drive Storage
- LG Blu-ray ROM
Case wise I'm still undecided but like the look of the Silverstone LC20B, so maybe someone knows of a good case similar to those? Price wise I'd like to keep it less than £100 for the case and PSU if possible.