[shadowace]

Couldn't pass up a little black friday shopping from the android tab today. Scooped up the following from newegg, please share your thoughts and input.

BIOSTAR A68I-350 Deluxe AMD Fusion APU 350D AMD A68 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

came with this RAM FREE G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL

APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Total US dollars $165

Hope to pick up a SSD for an OS drive ASAP.

Still not sure where I will go for OS exactly, probably WIN7/XBMC or Ubuntu/XBMC

[shadowace]

added a Kingston 64Gb SSD on sale for $49

http://www.staples.com/Kingston-SV200S3B...3A10422268

[massy086]

that should be a nice system any idea,s what you will use for a remote

[shadowace]

No I have not gotten to the remote yet. I have a TON of android devices around the house so I will use the XBMC remote app for now.

I do worry if I should have just spent a little more and moved into a higher spec system, oh well I guess this will do for some "getting back into things" and I can build a bigger/faster rig in a couple months.

[shadowace]

Got this system put together this evening. I am very happy with the Amd e350. I am running win8 for now.

I also totally got bit by the builders bug, so now to pick the next build out....

Also received my raspberry pi today, think I am going to use it as a server :-D