2014-08-13, 22:41
Hey, I will start by apologising for my somewhat erratic writing, punctuation and spelling mistakes.
Now I'm looking to setup a home theatre environment, I have purchased a 7.2 surround sound separates (ONKYO TXNR636 - much research went into this so I'm happy with my options.)
I plan on setting up multiple XBMC(or is it Kodi now) hardware boxes. I have looked into android based boxes and decided against it as it felt limited also lacks upgradability. So I decided to built a cheap as chips system in hopes that Haswell has allowed improvements on budget systems. I selected as follows...
Green=Complete
Red=Not needed
----Works Perfect----
ASRock B75M-ITX motherboard (for its optical out)
Haswell pentium g3420 1155 processor.
4gb ddr3 1600 ram (I have spare corsair vengeance LP)
Q4 HTPCcase with included 350w PSU and IRDA+remote.
----Happy----
Now my first questions are will this CPU be powerful enough to power this system.
Will the GPU from has well chip be powerful enough?
Will the temps be good with stock cooling?
Will the onboard audio be sufficient?
If not, would you recommend a gt640 graphics card and a xonar dgx audio card?
Or is it really unneeded?
Finally, I already have a dual Xeon 5550 system (16 cores with HT) 16gb ram 128gb SSD, 16tb HDD space (4x4tb) setup as a home server, this will feed my content via DLNA, it holds audio, pics and videos. Now can I plug a dual tuner TV card in to the server and allow live TV to the XBMCboxes? Also basic home automation control? Curtains, lights, door and window sensors, temperature etc. I have a internal wired network with 1gb LAN cat 6 cables and BT fttp 300mbps internet.
Thank you in advance.
Now I'm looking to setup a home theatre environment, I have purchased a 7.2 surround sound separates (ONKYO TXNR636 - much research went into this so I'm happy with my options.)
I plan on setting up multiple XBMC(or is it Kodi now) hardware boxes. I have looked into android based boxes and decided against it as it felt limited also lacks upgradability. So I decided to built a cheap as chips system in hopes that Haswell has allowed improvements on budget systems. I selected as follows...
Green=Complete
Red=Not needed
----Works Perfect----
ASRock B75M-ITX motherboard (for its optical out)
Haswell pentium g3420 1155 processor.
4gb ddr3 1600 ram (I have spare corsair vengeance LP)
Q4 HTPCcase with included 350w PSU and IRDA+remote.
----Happy----
Now my first questions are will this CPU be powerful enough to power this system.
Will the GPU from has well chip be powerful enough?
Will the temps be good with stock cooling?
Will the onboard audio be sufficient?
If not, would you recommend a gt640 graphics card and a xonar dgx audio card?
Or is it really unneeded?
Finally, I already have a dual Xeon 5550 system (16 cores with HT) 16gb ram 128gb SSD, 16tb HDD space (4x4tb) setup as a home server, this will feed my content via DLNA, it holds audio, pics and videos. Now can I plug a dual tuner TV card in to the server and allow live TV to the XBMCboxes? Also basic home automation control? Curtains, lights, door and window sensors, temperature etc. I have a internal wired network with 1gb LAN cat 6 cables and BT fttp 300mbps internet.
Thank you in advance.