Media Centre PC

[anroo2006]

Am looking for a mini pc to act as a media centre, especially ripped H264 video's, this is the speic I have come up with, any suggestions/comments?

Case Silverstone SST-GD06B HTPC Case + 450W PSU
Processor (CPU) AMD A8-3870K APU (3.0GHz, 4 Cores) & AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® F1A75-M: FM1 A-SERIES, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM) 8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk 3TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD30EZRX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ HD - Audiophile-Grade Notebook Sound

Need the 2 HDD to store all my films

Thanks

Andrew

 

[PCS]

Welcome to our forums

Nice spec - well balanced. I would not recommend a green drive as your primary disk due to it being slightly slower than other drives. Apart from that though, it looks great. What operating system have you selected?

 

[JakAttack]

Agreed, the 3TB is great for your storage, but substitute the 2GB Green with a Seagate Barracuda 6Gb/s for a bit less, it will be alot faster.