2012-01-17, 10:06
Hi,
I'd like to build my first HTPC over the next few weeks or months and what I did till now was choosing hardware which would fit my performance needs. I came up with the following:
APU: AMD A8-3850
Mobo: ASRock A75M
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1333 CL7
SSD: Kingston SSDNow S100 16GB
SSD: OCZ Vertex2 60GB
HDD: 2TB --
HDD: 2TB --
I want to use the XBMC primarily for watching live tv. Second would be watching movies. Additionally the second HDD is to be used for backing up other PCs in the network.
What I came up to until now is that I'd like to install Linux (possibly Ubuntu) at the smaller SSD while installing Windows at the larger one. Linux would be used for watching TV and so on while Windows would be used to play some games. (Backing Up would be done using Linux).
My problem now is that AMDs APUs don't work well using XBMC on Linux but I don't want to Windows 7 for watching television due to the boot time (Who wants to wait for his television 20ish seconds until it is booted?). Keeping the system in standby all the time is no option.
If anybody had enough endurance to read till this point my question:
Is there a hardware configuration using another CPU and GPU solution (intel and NVidea maybe) which works fine using XBMC on Linux without being more expensive or loosing performance wise?
Cyclonit
I'd like to build my first HTPC over the next few weeks or months and what I did till now was choosing hardware which would fit my performance needs. I came up with the following:
APU: AMD A8-3850
Mobo: ASRock A75M
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1333 CL7
SSD: Kingston SSDNow S100 16GB
SSD: OCZ Vertex2 60GB
HDD: 2TB --
HDD: 2TB --
I want to use the XBMC primarily for watching live tv. Second would be watching movies. Additionally the second HDD is to be used for backing up other PCs in the network.
What I came up to until now is that I'd like to install Linux (possibly Ubuntu) at the smaller SSD while installing Windows at the larger one. Linux would be used for watching TV and so on while Windows would be used to play some games. (Backing Up would be done using Linux).
My problem now is that AMDs APUs don't work well using XBMC on Linux but I don't want to Windows 7 for watching television due to the boot time (Who wants to wait for his television 20ish seconds until it is booted?). Keeping the system in standby all the time is no option.
If anybody had enough endurance to read till this point my question:
Is there a hardware configuration using another CPU and GPU solution (intel and NVidea maybe) which works fine using XBMC on Linux without being more expensive or loosing performance wise?
Cyclonit