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Right you guys, you all know the drill
I'm wanting to make a little PC for my 42 inch plasma screen, for playing Blurays and a bit of surfing & downloading.
I have another PC so this is a sort of secondary one, so I don't want to spend too much and here lies my quandary...
I could go with an Atom 330/Nvidia ION motherboard, but I'm worried it would be slower than a very slow thing and hence not enjoyable to use and hence a waste of money.
The other option is a socket 775 based board with a cheapo pentium in it, trouble is this will be worth al least 50 euros more than the Atomic option ...
Here's what I'm looking at...
The rest
The 2 options come out at...
Atom version ?374.27
Cheapo Pentium version ?427.37
The Socket 775 version has other advantages, it has integrated WIFI and a PCIe slot (just in case) AND I can shove in something with more poke at a later date if necessary.
Other justifications...
The case, is small, it fits where it needs to fit, but uses a normal ATX PSU and a normal sized optical drive for cheapness.
PSU is small enough but enough to power a PCIe card if needed.
Geil 2Gb kit is the cheapest that I can find that isn't generic or Kingston.
Optical drive is just a reader, it won't write anything, that's why it's cheap, I have a DVD writer on the other PC.
HDD is the smallest & cheapest modern drive and I have a soft spot for barracudas. I have other external HDDs.
I'll be using the on board graphics and sound. "Apparently" in both cases they can play BD movies at full resolution.
So what do you think ?
Edit, in both cases Windows 7 home Premium will be the OS of choice.
I'm wanting to make a little PC for my 42 inch plasma screen, for playing Blurays and a bit of surfing & downloading.
I have another PC so this is a sort of secondary one, so I don't want to spend too much and here lies my quandary...
I could go with an Atom 330/Nvidia ION motherboard, but I'm worried it would be slower than a very slow thing and hence not enjoyable to use and hence a waste of money.
The other option is a socket 775 based board with a cheapo pentium in it, trouble is this will be worth al least 50 euros more than the Atomic option ...
Here's what I'm looking at...
- Motherboard ZOTAC ION MINI-ITX ?117.80 (with atom incluided)
- ZOTAC 9300-ITX S.775 MINI-ITX ?99
- Pentium E5400 ?71.90
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- Case LIAN LI PC-Q07 MINI-ITX ?49.99
- PSU BE QUIET! PURE POWER L7 350W 80plus ?40
- COOLER CPU ARCTIC COOLING FREEZER 7 LP ?16.6
- GeIL DIMM kit 2 GB DDR2-800 ?48.99
- LiteOn iHOS104 BD & DVD reader ?63.9
- Seagate ST3250318AS 250 GB (Barracuda 7200.12) ?36.99
The 2 options come out at...
Atom version ?374.27
Cheapo Pentium version ?427.37
The Socket 775 version has other advantages, it has integrated WIFI and a PCIe slot (just in case) AND I can shove in something with more poke at a later date if necessary.
Other justifications...
The case, is small, it fits where it needs to fit, but uses a normal ATX PSU and a normal sized optical drive for cheapness.
PSU is small enough but enough to power a PCIe card if needed.
Geil 2Gb kit is the cheapest that I can find that isn't generic or Kingston.
Optical drive is just a reader, it won't write anything, that's why it's cheap, I have a DVD writer on the other PC.
HDD is the smallest & cheapest modern drive and I have a soft spot for barracudas. I have other external HDDs.
I'll be using the on board graphics and sound. "Apparently" in both cases they can play BD movies at full resolution.
So what do you think ?
Edit, in both cases Windows 7 home Premium will be the OS of choice.
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