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Wanting a Pre built HTPC - XBMC ready - gogamer - 2012-03-02 04:31

I'm a XBMC noob that doesn't have time to build my own. I'm looking at going pre built with either one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113188

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113194

I want it to:
-Play 1080P
-Bitstream HD Audio to AVR
-dedicated equipment room so size and noise is no matter
-Win 7
-Running Itunes for Whole House Audio
-No gaming
-$550 budget

Or is there another "XBMC ready out of the Box" . . . box i should consider?

- bluray - 2012-03-02 05:16

gogamer Wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113194
This one should playback everything in your list with ease!

- eskro - 2012-03-02 07:29

both will do

- djonesax - 2012-03-03 20:51

gogamer Wrote:I'm a XBMC noob that doesn't have time to build my own. I'm looking at going pre built with either one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113188

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113194

I want it to:
-Play 1080P
-Bitstream HD Audio to AVR
-dedicated equipment room so size and noise is no matter
-Win 7
-Running Itunes for Whole House Audio
-No gaming
-$550 budget

Or is there another "XBMC ready out of the Box" . . . box i should consider?

I might be missing what your after here but did you consider an AppleTV2 with xbmc? $99. Then you could use any old computer for your itunes library. I have set up 4 of these so far and they work great.

- bluray - 2012-03-03 22:54

djonesax Wrote:I might be missing what your after here but did you consider an AppleTV2 with xbmc? $99. Then you could use any old computer for your itunes library. I have set up 4 of these so far and they work great.
He clearly stated that he wants the options below, and can your AppleTV2 bitstreaming DTS-HD/TrueHD?:

-Play 1080P
-Bitstream HD Audio to AVR

- gogamer - 2012-03-04 00:50

definitely need to pass HD audio. i've got a 7.2 setup and love to rock the house.

I suppose this is the direction to go then. Thanks bluray/eskro!

- bluray - 2012-03-04 01:36

gogamer Wrote:definitely need to pass HD audio. i've got a 7.2 setup and love to rock the house.

I suppose this is the direction to go then. Thanks bluray/eskro!
Both PC's in your links will playback everything you throw at it. For your budget, I'll definitely go for A8-3820+HD6550D. You'll have more horse power and better GPU too!

- djonesax - 2012-03-04 01:53

bluray Wrote:He clearly stated that he wants the options below, and can your AppleTV2 bitstreaming DTS-HD/TrueHD?:

-Play 1080P
-Bitstream HD Audio to AVR


oops. sorry, I play 1080p movies but it only outputs 720p. my bad, forgot

- eskro - 2012-03-04 02:37

i'd go for this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883113188

no need for more then that, save yourself $60

- nobody_here - 2012-03-04 05:01

djonesax Wrote:I might be missing what your after here but did you consider an AppleTV2 with xbmc? $99. Then you could use any old computer for your itunes library. I have set up 4 of these so far and they work great.

there are a lot of things the ATV2 won't do compared to the systems being recommended in this thread. been there done that. the XBMC GUI is slow and clunky on the ATV2 compared to these, file playback limitations (aside from the 720p scaling issue) are large. You have to make sure all your content is encoded to be compatible with the ATV2, which is terribly time consuming and unnecessary.

if you just spend another $100 you can get a Level 6 system that does everything and does it well