2013-04-03, 16:12
(2013-04-03, 13:54)PatrickVogeli Wrote: +1 for Dougie's suggestion.. it won't do Hi10P, but seriously, for $150, pretty and new.. nothing will do that.
You have to adopt some compromise, because you are asking the famous question: I want everything, I want it fast, I want it pretty and I want it small.. that ain't gonna happen, sorry.
If you really want everything in your list, you have to go with, at least, a Celeron G530 CPU. That will up the price a bit, at least $100 more going the micro-atx way.
Ha I'm an aesthetics whore so ya beauty is a must or at least it must look like it belongs. I'll have to look into this setup. Only thing I was worried about was the ECS mobo. Mine in my AMD setup was pretty bad. Mobo stopped reading HDs on the first boot a long time ago. Takes multiple boots to get into windows now.
I'm going to check this out though, hopefully I don't end up spending more than 150 but I want this for the living room to actually work along with the media server I'm buying so that I don't have to keep my PC in my room on anymore. Thing is loud, not fast, and just a pain in the ass so hopefully this build works out well. My family never really bought into the media server but now that I've found XBMC this last year and figured out how it works I feel this will turn them around!
For this build, I like everything but the case -- not my thing but $39 for case + PSU that's not a big ugly tower...
