Well im looking at building a media pc for my newly painted front room but looking for your thoughts and ideas as to what to put in it. it will also be used every now and then to play games on (when friends come round etc)
so far the bits i have are
Optical Drive: - Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP Blu ray player
CPU: - Option 1: - Intel CPU Core i5 3570K Quad Core IvyBridge Processor, Option 2: - Intel CPU i3 2130 Sandy Bridge Dual Core 3.4GHz
GPU: - MSI HD 6870 ATI - AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 1GB
Solid State Drive: - 120GB SSD Corsair Force Series 3 Series SATA III - 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
2nd Hard Drive: - 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA III - 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Motherboard: - Option 1: - Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 Intel Z77 Socket 1155 Ivybridge Ready Motherboard, Option 2: - Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Generation 3 Motherboard
Ram: - Corsair Memory Dominator 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz CAS 8 DHX Dual Channel Desktop
PSU: - Corsair CP-9020006-UK AX 650W Professional Gold Modular Power Supply
OS: - will be Windows Vista 64 bit or Windows 7 64bit
Case: - ive not been able to find a nice case yet so all ideas welcome. looking for something simple and not ugly as its going to be in my front room
really now after if there is anything else i should think about adding to it to make it better etc
so far the bits i have are
Optical Drive: - Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP Blu ray player
CPU: - Option 1: - Intel CPU Core i5 3570K Quad Core IvyBridge Processor, Option 2: - Intel CPU i3 2130 Sandy Bridge Dual Core 3.4GHz
GPU: - MSI HD 6870 ATI - AMD Radeon Graphics Card - 1GB
Solid State Drive: - 120GB SSD Corsair Force Series 3 Series SATA III - 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
2nd Hard Drive: - 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA III - 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Motherboard: - Option 1: - Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 Intel Z77 Socket 1155 Ivybridge Ready Motherboard, Option 2: - Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Generation 3 Motherboard
Ram: - Corsair Memory Dominator 4GB DDR3 1600 MHz CAS 8 DHX Dual Channel Desktop
PSU: - Corsair CP-9020006-UK AX 650W Professional Gold Modular Power Supply
OS: - will be Windows Vista 64 bit or Windows 7 64bit
Case: - ive not been able to find a nice case yet so all ideas welcome. looking for something simple and not ugly as its going to be in my front room
really now after if there is anything else i should think about adding to it to make it better etc
