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post #1 of 5
8/5/12 at 9:07pm
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I designed this HTPC and i wanted to know how good it is good:

CPU:AMD A6-3650 Llano 2.6GHz Socket FM1 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU

Motherboard:ASRock A75 PRO4 FM1

RAM:Crucial Ballistix sport 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333

Optical Drive:LG Black 12X Internal Blu-ray Drive 3D Playback & M-DISC Support

HDD:SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

SSD:OCZ Solid 3 SLD3-25SAT3-60G 2.5" 60GB SATA III

Case:nMEDIAPC Red Wood Wood/Steel HTPC 8000 ATX Media Center

TV Tuner:Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 Hybrid TV Tuner w/ Video Recorder PCI-E x 1

PSU:CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 V2

Operating System:Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit - OEM

Sound Card:Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card

If you can cut some corners without costing any features or power that would be great. Also i would like to change the hdd to a different one with sata III 6gb/s while staying 2tb because i am going to build a server later and i want to be able to move this drive to that in raid 5 when i do. I would like to keep a ssd for the os and the case because it looks really cool for a htpc. if i can i would like to go to like an intel i3 but im not sure how well they can stream hd movies since the apu has better integrated graphics

All the parts were found on newegg

Thanks
Edited by Radmanhs - 8/5/12 at 9:30pm
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If you know a program that works great with hardware decoding using a APU then a quad is fine, but I would go for a set of ram that is at least 1600mhz since the apu does its best at 1866mhz and 1333 is way to low. Ballistix 1866 9-9-9-24 2x2gb this should be up ur alley if you want them to be from crucial. If brand doesnt matter then anything from THESE would work as they overclock really well if the motherboard doesn't have the memory multiplier to run at stock. But 1866mhz is possible with these APUs at a possibly lower timing then stock since those chips are highly overclockable. And if you don't want to overclock just turn down the timings and make sure its stable.

AND DO NOT GET INTEL if you want to do igpu hardware acceled decoded cause it doesnt work worth a crap. It makes all video sources a bunch of colored blocks on my gfs laptop running VLC. Might be different for a actual dvd-bluray media playing program.
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8/6/12 at 5:18am
Looks ok to me . Not a big fan of that case , but that is personal choice . No need to go Intel route. For raid 5 you might want to consider to buy a raid card
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8/6/12 at 9:32am
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ok, i just asked about the raid because i plan on moving the hdd to a server for extra storage for that and ive not gotten a clear answer on what kind of hdd i should get for raid because its so mixed up out there
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post #5 of 5
8/6/12 at 10:18am
find something witch is on sale. I have mixed opinions about what you should choose. Me i buy what is on sale and cheaper as i can get it
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