Looking to upgrade this black Friday...
#1
So i'm looking to take advantage of some of this years black Friday specials and I wanted to get some opinions about the hardware...

Looking at:
Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6811129054

Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813131697
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813500065
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813131663

Already have a 32gb SSD

Any thoughts?

Also looking for a duel tuner so I can record and watch live TV simultaneously
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#2
It doesnt look like any of the hardware you posted is even on sale for Black Friday.. lol
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#3
if you're planning to use heavy skin or bitstream hd audio, i'm suggesting something a little more powerful. i have e-350 and i help my friend built d525, and the igpu playback fine but it is not as fluently as it should. i end up install gt430 in my e-350 htpc.

i'm suggesting this more powerful amd apu instead, and it'll playback everything with ease:

SILVERSTONE Black Aluminum / 0.8mm SECC Grandia Series GD05B micro-ATX / Mini-DTX / Mini-ITX. a of lot guys in here don't like the imon in antec case.

ASUS F1A75-M PRO AMD A Series Motherboard and AMD Quad-Core A6-3650 2.6GHz Radeon HD 6530D APU Bundle
>Alienware X51- do it all HTPC
>Simplify XBMC configurations
>HOW-TO Bitstreaming using XBMC
I refused to watch movie without bitstreaming HD audio!
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#4
toymachine2009 Wrote:It doesnt look like any of the hardware you posted is even on sale for Black Friday.. lol

Not in newegg but at frys they will be.
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#5
danielwayne Wrote:Not in newegg but at frys they will be.

ahhh
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#6
bluray Wrote:if you're planning to use heavy skin or bitstream hd audio, i'm suggesting something a little more powerful. i have e-350 and i help my friend built d525, and the igpu playback fine but it is not as fluently as it should. i end up install gt430 in my e-350 htpc.

i'm suggesting this more powerful amd apu instead, and it'll playback everything with ease:

SILVERSTONE Black Aluminum / 0.8mm SECC Grandia Series GD05B micro-ATX / Mini-DTX / Mini-ITX. a of lot guys in here don't like the imon in antec case.

ASUS F1A75-M PRO AMD A Series Motherboard and AMD Quad-Core A6-3650 2.6GHz Radeon HD 6530D APU Bundle

Looking to keep it low energy since I will want to keep it on all the time for scheduled recordings. In addition to low energy, I don't want to hear it... But, I don't really want to have performance issues either...
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