2011-10-07, 18:50
Hey guys, I have never built an HTPC before as I have only done gaming rigs.
This is also a suprise for my father-in-law from me, my wife, my mother-in-law, and granny for xmas and bday (october 20th).
Now the build I doing has the AMD Llano A8 3850, gigabyte ud2h, 1tb hdd, 4gb of ram, 350watt psu, and a bluray drive.
all for a total, w/ case, of $517
To save money I am going to run ubuntu on it with xbmc and for storing all his movies and music on the system. (i figured he isnt going to be using it to sync his itunes with his ipod anyways.)
However, i read somewhere else in a sticky that xbmc only works on x86 chipsets in the sticky that talked about the ps3/wii/xb360....
So do i need to redo this build and get a intel chip and different mobo in it?
Thanks
This is also a suprise for my father-in-law from me, my wife, my mother-in-law, and granny for xmas and bday (october 20th).
Now the build I doing has the AMD Llano A8 3850, gigabyte ud2h, 1tb hdd, 4gb of ram, 350watt psu, and a bluray drive.
all for a total, w/ case, of $517
To save money I am going to run ubuntu on it with xbmc and for storing all his movies and music on the system. (i figured he isnt going to be using it to sync his itunes with his ipod anyways.)
However, i read somewhere else in a sticky that xbmc only works on x86 chipsets in the sticky that talked about the ps3/wii/xb360....
So do i need to redo this build and get a intel chip and different mobo in it?
Thanks