[chtamina]

What's the best way to get the smoothest experience with a budget of 150$ ?
is pivos xios ds (running openelec) worth the money ?
is there something better for the same price ?

I don't care about running android, I need something that works great with frodo and play 1080

thanks

[RaggSokk3n]

look at the android threads on this forum

[cwide]

I'm going to become a broken record...

IF you live near a microcenter and don't care what your HTPC looks like...

Open box hunt for a week or two and you will almost surely be able to come up with an ugly, big custom pc that will be infinitely better than any android option.

A6-3500's for $30 or Celeron G550 for $35. Open box board for ~$50 (or less). Case for $20. Power Supply $15. 4 GB ram $15. Optical drive $15

Total: ~$150 or less

[lagledavid]

I'm going to become a broken record...

IF you live near a microcenter and don't care what your HTPC looks like...

Open box hunt for a week or two and you will almost surely be able to come up with an ugly, big custom pc that will be infinitely better than any android option.

A6-3500's for $30 or Celeron G550 for $35. Open box board for ~$50 (or less). Case for $20. Power Supply $15. 4 GB ram $15. Optical drive $15

Total: ~$150 or less

agree i just took an old hp pentiun d machine i had laying around added a gt430 gpu and purchased a Lian Li htpc case from ebay running xbmcubuntu and im in heaven works perfect.