Looking to build my first htpc and only looking to use it for XBMC icefilms plugin and thinking about putting Windows 8 on it for Internet and the Netflix app. Does anybody have any recommendations as to what specs I would need? Or is there a cheap pre built option? I've been looking at some Zotac pre built and wasn't sure if they would be good. I don't need a blu ray player or anything just mainly used for streaming online. Thanks!
Take a look at my htpc builds, if their to pricy you can change cpu to a amd a6 fm2 and mb for a mATX fm2
Okay thanks I took a look at them and not sure I'm ready to spend that much money on this project. Do you by chance know of any prebuilt htpc's that would be worth it or any barebone pc's that would be easy and cheap?
SHUTTLE SLIM PC XH61V S-1155 90W
200$
INTEL CELERON G465 1.9GHZ 1.5MB S-1155
40$
KINGSTON 2GB 1333MHZ DDR3 CL9 SODIMM SR X8
10$
any usb stick
10$
any Linux distribution
0$
total 260$