Gingerbread Man
Active Member
Evening all.
I think this is the right sub forum.
I have current long standing HTPC which has been upgraded slightly over the years from housing the hard drives within, to having a separate NAS setup, more RAM, different GPU, an SSD added....the list goes on.
Anyhow, too long ago the thing stopped booting. I believed it was a dodgy graphics card and bought another, but alas that wasn't the cause. I'm now thinking the motherboard is at fault which is leading me to look down the barrels at a rebuild. It runs DDR3 and a newer motherboard now has DDR4 and well... it's time unfortunately to have a slightly bigger upgrade.
I plan a theatre build in the old studio flat as part of the current house reno, but that's behind lots of other areas, so currently the amp is in storage. Ideally I plan for Atmos and 4K, but currently and for a while it'll be straight connected to the stereo TV. I ran Kodi and had my music and film stored on a NAS as stated, it worked well till it went pete tong.
So I currently have;
Can you guys please point me in the right direction of what I should be looking at buying for the rebuild?
I have since emigrated to Australia but I should be able to buy everything the same I'd imagine.
Thanks.
I think this is the right sub forum.
I have current long standing HTPC which has been upgraded slightly over the years from housing the hard drives within, to having a separate NAS setup, more RAM, different GPU, an SSD added....the list goes on.
Anyhow, too long ago the thing stopped booting. I believed it was a dodgy graphics card and bought another, but alas that wasn't the cause. I'm now thinking the motherboard is at fault which is leading me to look down the barrels at a rebuild. It runs DDR3 and a newer motherboard now has DDR4 and well... it's time unfortunately to have a slightly bigger upgrade.
I plan a theatre build in the old studio flat as part of the current house reno, but that's behind lots of other areas, so currently the amp is in storage. Ideally I plan for Atmos and 4K, but currently and for a while it'll be straight connected to the stereo TV. I ran Kodi and had my music and film stored on a NAS as stated, it worked well till it went pete tong.
So I currently have;
- a Lian Li PCC37 MUSE desktop slimline micro ATX case -I quite like it, happy to keep it. I use an external Infrared receiver for my Harmony One which works fine.
- a 1030 GPU with either a fan or one with a large heatsink, so two to pick from.
- a Corsair CX430m PSU - Happy to reuse if possible.
- 8gb of DDR3 - this'll have to be swapped out for newer stuff. I believe 8gb to be fine...?
- an SSD as the main boot drive and windows, and an traditional HDD for a little bit of storage - happy to keep all of this.
- a DVD Blu Ray drive. not 4K but I don;;t know the last time I put a DVD in it - happy to keep it.
- I do currently have a Wifi setup on it. It was ethernet but due to a house shift about it's currently in a temporary spot, so I'll reuse this Wifi card for now.
- CPU....I can't recall what it is and can't turn it on to find out! - this will need upgrading so that's neither here or there.
Can you guys please point me in the right direction of what I should be looking at buying for the rebuild?
I have since emigrated to Australia but I should be able to buy everything the same I'd imagine.
Thanks.