[mjmusicianmj]

Hi guys

For a long time I was determined to buy a Zbox id83 but after my delivery has been postponed 3 times making it 2 months of waiting I'm tired of it so I cancelled the order.
Since I'm not really using my stationary computer for gaming etc. at the moment (Married and just became a dad) my priorities will have to be somewhere else

Therefore I am thinking of moving my stationary computing components into a smaller cabinet say for example silverstone, I don't know yet.
I will appreciate a lot to hear what you think before I start the process.
My wish is to playback full blurays with HD audio. I consider myself as GROUP 6 not 7 yet.

It consists of the following:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 945

RAM: 4 GB Dual-channel DDR3 at 668 Mhz

Motherboard: Micro-Star International CO, LTD 770-C45 (MS-7599)

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5800


As far as I understand the graphics card supports 5.1 HD audio
I already bought a SSD card on which I will install WIN7 with xbmc

I understand that I eventually will have to upgrade further on but I wanna hear what you think of it at the moment?

[GortWillSaveUs]

If you truly have higher priorities (and congrats on the new baby),....why not use your existing build,...temporarily.
Install the SSD,...load Win7,..XBMC,....and give it a full test run.
Sounds like you'd need to buy a BD-ROM.
This one LG Electronics 14x Internal BDXL Blu-Ray Burner Rewriter is not bad at less than $70

This will help you see where your existing build has problems,...if any at all.
Sure, it'd be nice to have a smaller and prettier case,..but why go crazy right now.
Then, once you get some pocket change,...splurge on a nice case and whatever other components you need.

Usually when a wife sees that you're putting her and the baby first,..they usually break down and tell you "treat yourself" later on.

[bluray]

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5800


As far as I understand the graphics card supports 5.1 HD audio
I already bought a SSD card on which I will install WIN7 with xbmc

If you are bitstreaming audio to AVR for decoding, it'll support all available audio channels....

[mjmusicianmj]

Thanks for the reply !!

I forgot to mention that - I already got a BD-ROM

I haven't tried the big 50gb blu ray discs yet but I tried Mortal Kombat which was approx. 20 gb and it ran good
I will not go all too fancy about a cabinet but would be nice to get it so it would fit into my TV desk
I assume what has to be upgraded eventually are the RAM.

[bluray]

I haven't tried the big 50gb blu ray discs yet but I tried Mortal Kombat which was approx. 20 gb and it ran good

You shouldn't have any problem playback 50gb BD. I can playback Avatar "over 40gb" BD using my HD5570 card with ease. 4gb of ram is plenty for Windows+Frodo...