Hi all. I'm selling my PS3 and 360 and am going to out together a "Steambox" HTPC system. I want to be able to watch blurays and iTunes content, and play AAA games without having to be constantly tweaking settings, that set, I originally set out to go sub £500, but the cost has ballooned. I'm flexible, but generally if we can get that cost down again, that would be great, for the moment I'm only going for 4Gb of RAM with an eye to upgrading next month. Similarly the power DVD licence (for integration with win media center)will come later. One last thing, I've got a kinect for windows which I bought for development but never did anything with, so if anyone is using that some advice would be great there (I see there is a mouse kinect driver and a kinect win media center project which I'll be looking into. So, all that said, on with the spec.
Intel Core i5-3350P socket 1155 125.66
VTX 3D Radeon R9 270 2GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card 128.67
Gigabyte GA-H87N-Wifi. 88.60
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £42.43
4GB, 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800 memory module 34.79
Windows 8 £71.52
Silverstone Silverstone sg08 w 600w psu 179.99
Pioneer BDC-TD05 Internal Slimline 6x Blu Ray 48.70
Total: £720.36
Intel Core i5-3350P socket 1155 125.66
VTX 3D Radeon R9 270 2GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card 128.67
Gigabyte GA-H87N-Wifi. 88.60
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £42.43
4GB, 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800 memory module 34.79
Windows 8 £71.52
Silverstone Silverstone sg08 w 600w psu 179.99
Pioneer BDC-TD05 Internal Slimline 6x Blu Ray 48.70
Total: £720.36
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