Best Budget 4K Home Theatre PC?

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I am on a small budget ( < £500) and just want a htpc that works and is capable of 4k media playback. Any suggestions would be great!

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£27.53 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£33.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£48.08 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£31.14 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£14.50 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Operating System:...
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£27.53 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£33.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£48.08 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£31.14 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£14.50 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£38.39 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£74.34 @ Aria PC)
Wireless Network Adapter: TRENDnet TEW-805UB 802.11a/b/g/n/ac USB 3.0 Wi-Fi Adapter (£9.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £311.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Here's a homebuilt solution, but Aztec_scribe's listed prebuilt is an amazing deal with even better performance/price. Can't beat OEM windows discounts at low end.
 
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Something like this?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130T 2.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£92.00 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£80.33 @ More Computers)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£48.90 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB StormX OC Video Card (£98.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case (£39.58 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £437.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 16:10 BST+0100
 
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While Intel has good graphics for 4k playback, an APU is much more powerful (graphics wise) than intel's HD 4600. So when streaming 4k you will have no slow down's at all:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7850K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£112.73 @ CCL Computers)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a 57.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£31.26 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (£77.94 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£66.62 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£55.89 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Silverstone ML07B HTPC Case (£51.00 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Silverstone 500W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply (£73.80 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: EVGA 100-OD-S101-BR DVD/CD Writer (£38.79 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £508.03
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 16:10 BST+0100
 
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Build-in WiFi and BT, 8GB memory, solid PSU, and a very nice low power GPU capable of handling 4k video easily and some mild gaming.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£84.12 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£80.33 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.72 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card (£112.79 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case (£35.83 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£38.94 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: LG UH12NS30 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£38.54 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £480.61
 
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Thanks. This seems like the best price/performance ratio for the purpose of the build.
 
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Keep in mind that for those low end machines, you can often get better deals on prebuilt, as they get windows licenses super cheap, batch test power supplies that a normal consumer wouldn't bother with, use cases that are cheaper and just have so many advantages for economy of scale.

The Celeron Listed will not always be smooth during all action scenes at 4k, you would be better off with the i5 build listed by Aztec Scribe. I tried to build something to compete with his build on price, and that's as close as I could get using consumer parts pricing.

For smoother video playback I'd suggest upgrading to a processor with HD graphics 4600 or better.
 
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