[jachred]

Well I read ALOT of posts before I built this. I think I did well! My budget was $300 Total, Went over a little bit (Darn sales tax!)

MB: Gigabyte A75M-D2H 102.99
CPU: AMD A4-X2-3400 59.99
CASE: Skinny and Long with 275W PSU 49.99
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1333 29.99
SSD: 60GB Agility 3 by OCZ 69.99 - 15MIR

Total Cost 297.95 --316 with tax

Only problem I had was that I forgot to update the bios. I had no sound via HDMI with ANY os.. update the bios, tweaked the sound.. Now everything works smooth via the XBMCbuntu Eden 11.0

[Tycho91]

Why did you chose that shop?

Why not this mother board? Asrock A55M-HVS
Why 8GB RAM? 4GB will be more than enough.
Why that case?

[jachred]

I chose that shop because it was instate, retail location. I like being able to go somewhere and yell at someone if they sell me bunk parts.
I went with the case, because it was $50 and included the Power Supply. It fits nice on my TV stand as well.

I went with the gigabyte board because it was the only board they had that used USB3, SATA-III With the processor I chose
I went with 8GB ram because of the on board graphics, and just in case I needed to run windows, it was $10 more for 8gb over 4gb. Though I think I'd of been better served putting it into the A6 processor..

I wish they had that board in stock, looks great at that price point.

[Balinus]

Nice to hear that XBMC run well with AMD on Linux.

[Tycho91]

I chose that shop because it was instate, retail location. I like being able to go somewhere and yell at someone if they sell me bunk parts.
I went with the case, because it was $50 and included the Power Supply. It fits nice on my TV stand as well.

I went with the gigabyte board because it was the only board they had that used USB3, SATA-III With the processor I chose
I went with 8GB ram because of the on board graphics, and just in case I needed to run windows, it was $10 more for 8gb over 4gb. Though I think I'd of been better served putting it into the A6 processor..

I wish they had that board in stock, looks great at that price point.

Well, I would go for 4GB and an A6, the A6 has a stronger GPU than the A4. And even a W7 pc doesn't use 4GB

[jachred]

Yeah.. Rookie mistake. I will get the better processor next time.. If wife approves, I need to build two more. So getting them around $200 would be nice, and with that $50 off MB, $10 off RAM. That would get it down to $230