I looked at your parts. Seems way over-kill to me. Unless re-encoding 1080p blu-ray rips on the fly, a core2duo for 4 years ago would what you're proposing.
Making a NAS out your parts wouldn't be a bad idea. All you would do is boot freenas 8 off a thumb drive and put all the hard drives into a pool to make one large volume. Amahi would do the same - pool the drives into one volume, stream the files to the xbox.
Even if you did want to re-encode on the fly that CPU seems more than adequate. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Your list is pretty cheap, that's what I would with those parts...
I don't know if this will help but here's my current (comedic) setup for demonstrative purposes:
Right now I have a FreeNAS box (atom-based with four 1TB hard drives) set up as an iSCSI hard drive in windows 7 (on my sig rig). I setup WHS v1 in virtualbox with a bunch of multi-gig virtual hard drives. This multi-gig files are stored on the NAS. So i'm streaming over the network from a VM stored on an atom-based freenas box. And video never stutters/there's no problems. Ok maybe that sounds complex. But it works.
Making a NAS out your parts wouldn't be a bad idea. All you would do is boot freenas 8 off a thumb drive and put all the hard drives into a pool to make one large volume. Amahi would do the same - pool the drives into one volume, stream the files to the xbox.
Even if you did want to re-encode on the fly that CPU seems more than adequate. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Your list is pretty cheap, that's what I would with those parts...
I don't know if this will help but here's my current (comedic) setup for demonstrative purposes:
Right now I have a FreeNAS box (atom-based with four 1TB hard drives) set up as an iSCSI hard drive in windows 7 (on my sig rig). I setup WHS v1 in virtualbox with a bunch of multi-gig virtual hard drives. This multi-gig files are stored on the NAS. So i'm streaming over the network from a VM stored on an atom-based freenas box. And video never stutters/there's no problems. Ok maybe that sounds complex. But it works.
Galactica: Laptop
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VM Server
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7 860 | Biostar T5 XE | Radeon HD 5870 | Corsair 16GB |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | OS |
| Western Digital hard drive wd1001fals-00e8b0 | Maxtor 300GB | I don't need no stinking optical drive | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
| Monitor | Monitor | Keyboard | Power |
| HP ZR24w 24'' | Samsung SyncMaster 24" | logitech wireless k360 | Seventeam ST-850ZAF 850W ATX |
| Case | Mouse | Audio | Audio |
| Thermaltake V9 Black Edition | Logitech G500 Programmable Gaming Mouse | FiiO E7 USB DAC and Portable Headphone Amplifier | Sennheiser HD555 Professional Headphones |
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Galactica: Laptop
(9 items) |
VM Server
(17 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7 860 | Biostar T5 XE | Radeon HD 5870 | Corsair 16GB |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | OS |
| Western Digital hard drive wd1001fals-00e8b0 | Maxtor 300GB | I don't need no stinking optical drive | Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
| Monitor | Monitor | Keyboard | Power |
| HP ZR24w 24'' | Samsung SyncMaster 24" | logitech wireless k360 | Seventeam ST-850ZAF 850W ATX |
| Case | Mouse | Audio | Audio |
| Thermaltake V9 Black Edition | Logitech G500 Programmable Gaming Mouse | FiiO E7 USB DAC and Portable Headphone Amplifier | Sennheiser HD555 Professional Headphones |
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