Media Center/File Server/Mothers Computer - New build

ImJay

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Approximate Purchase Date: Within a month

Budget Range: Around $600 Aud

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Movie/File storage, Browsing the net

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: Everything - New build

Do you need to buy OS: No.

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: uamrt.com, pccasegear.com

Location: Australia wide

Parts Preferences: Intel, Asus, Gigabyte, WD

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1024x768

Additional Comments: Good secure build. Quiet/energy efficient. Redundant (storage wise(RAID1))
Will be used for surfing the web and that's about it.

Info:
I have very little, to no parts selected. This is where some pros come in.
I was looking at a Pentium G series processor (G650), but most mobos dont support over two 6gb/s ports.

Two 2-3TB WD drives


Already have:
I already have an old SSD for boot drive
4gb RAM (I have two DDR3 1333mhz 2gb sticks)
Already have keyboard and mouse

 

MichaelSP

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Well, you could get the following:
http://pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_711_1183&products_id=19866
http://pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=187_346_1184&products_id=21350
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_547&products_id=22133
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15_535&products_id=22020
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=210_344&products_id=19554

should work out on budget. However, have you looked at something like this and buy more storage: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1411_1445&products_id=22386

Hope some of this helps :)
 

ImJay

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Thanks MichaelSP.
Reason for not wanting a prebuilt system is that I want to build a system. Just some experience :)
 

tassietim

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are you 100% set on an intel based system?

i found amd based systems provided my media pc builds with better options
more sata3 ports mostly from 5-7 sata3 over intels 2 in most cases
and if using on board based graphics Amd i feel has more to offer

some board options i liked coupled with any of their A series cpus
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1207_1441&products_id=21749

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1207_1441&products_id=21641

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=138_1207_1441&products_id=21916
 

tassietim

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