2011-03-31, 10:20
Hey peeps,
Just ordered the first half of my bits and was curious on your comments. So far I'm $500 down n I've got the following in the post:
Antec NSK2480B - Black Micro ATX Desktop Case with 80 PLUS Cer $134.35
Corsair 4GB kit (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz Unbuffered CL 8 DIMM Memory $88.39
ATHLON II X4 645 3100MHZ/95W/2MB $125.15
AM3, 880G, 4DDR3, PCIE, RAID, VGA, GBLAN, HDMI, SATA3, mATX, USB $117.61
Decent mATX case w/PSU, some good quality CL8 RAM, 4 core 3.1GHZ CPUs and a comfortable mATX motherboard that should suit me fine. Still looking for a good 1GB nVidia card, a dual tv-tuner (hauupauge come highly recommended) and a good remote control. Will be running ubuntu 10.10 and XBMC. Already have drives and wireless mouse/keyboards etc and will run a wired connection (suits my setup fine) without SSD (install on SATA?). So far I think I'm in the clear but I'm curious what the big guns think. Any recommendations? Cheers.
Morgz
Just ordered the first half of my bits and was curious on your comments. So far I'm $500 down n I've got the following in the post:
Antec NSK2480B - Black Micro ATX Desktop Case with 80 PLUS Cer $134.35
Corsair 4GB kit (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz Unbuffered CL 8 DIMM Memory $88.39
ATHLON II X4 645 3100MHZ/95W/2MB $125.15
AM3, 880G, 4DDR3, PCIE, RAID, VGA, GBLAN, HDMI, SATA3, mATX, USB $117.61
Decent mATX case w/PSU, some good quality CL8 RAM, 4 core 3.1GHZ CPUs and a comfortable mATX motherboard that should suit me fine. Still looking for a good 1GB nVidia card, a dual tv-tuner (hauupauge come highly recommended) and a good remote control. Will be running ubuntu 10.10 and XBMC. Already have drives and wireless mouse/keyboards etc and will run a wired connection (suits my setup fine) without SSD (install on SATA?). So far I think I'm in the clear but I'm curious what the big guns think. Any recommendations? Cheers.
Morgz