2011-07-26, 04:58
With the help of a few members here, finally buttoning up what I hope will be the final HTPC for a while.
CASE - Silverstone ML03B
PSU - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D
MB - ASUS M4A88T-M LE
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz 95W
MEM - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)
SSD - OCZ Vertex 2 60G
HD - 500G Fujitsu 2.5"
BR-RW - LG WH10LS30
VID - ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3(LP) GeForce GT 430
CAP - Hauupauge WinTV-HVR-2250
KEY/MOUSE - Lenovo 57Y6336 Black USB RF Wireless Mini Multimedia Remote with keyboard
REMOTE - Harmony One
The build was probably the most problematic for me in a while. Ended up RMAing the origianl memory (Patriot Gamer 2 Series) and the original motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2). It was probably the motherboard and not the memory, but I couldn't tell. Shortly after resolving those problems, the OCZ SSD drive failed and it's been a month waiting on them to get me a replacement.
It is pretty much overpowered, however this PC will not only be the main HTPC (so it will probably be running heavier skins, etc), my intention is also to use it for ripping movies, part of a video render farm, and also being the TV server for the rest of the house. I'm currently running 2 dual tuner HD Homeruns and the internal HVR-2250. The spinner may be coming out, I haven't decided if I need the drive space just yet, that was the old boot drive while the SSD was in for repairs.
It's currently running Windows 7 x64, XBMC 10.1 (Aeon MQ2), and Team Mediaportal TV Server.
Couple of pics (I'm sure you've seen it all before):
CASE - Silverstone ML03B
PSU - Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D
MB - ASUS M4A88T-M LE
CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz 95W
MEM - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB)
SSD - OCZ Vertex 2 60G
HD - 500G Fujitsu 2.5"
BR-RW - LG WH10LS30
VID - ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3(LP) GeForce GT 430
CAP - Hauupauge WinTV-HVR-2250
KEY/MOUSE - Lenovo 57Y6336 Black USB RF Wireless Mini Multimedia Remote with keyboard
REMOTE - Harmony One
The build was probably the most problematic for me in a while. Ended up RMAing the origianl memory (Patriot Gamer 2 Series) and the original motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-S2). It was probably the motherboard and not the memory, but I couldn't tell. Shortly after resolving those problems, the OCZ SSD drive failed and it's been a month waiting on them to get me a replacement.
It is pretty much overpowered, however this PC will not only be the main HTPC (so it will probably be running heavier skins, etc), my intention is also to use it for ripping movies, part of a video render farm, and also being the TV server for the rest of the house. I'm currently running 2 dual tuner HD Homeruns and the internal HVR-2250. The spinner may be coming out, I haven't decided if I need the drive space just yet, that was the old boot drive while the SSD was in for repairs.
It's currently running Windows 7 x64, XBMC 10.1 (Aeon MQ2), and Team Mediaportal TV Server.
Couple of pics (I'm sure you've seen it all before):