Media machine for living room?

[Detale]

No problem man.

Hoi Skizo what did you wind up doing anyway?

[Skiz]

Still shopping on/off.

I've been moving and working on my new house for the past two weeks. I'm also in the process of building two desks for my office so I haven't even setup my PC. Right now I'm just on the netbook.

I do want to get something put together but I can't seem to find just the right thing.

I like those ASRock ION 330 machines but they take 2.5" drives and use the minimum specs for driving 1080p.

I'd really like to get a Shuttle but they want too much money these days.

I think the best option is going to be some sort full size horizontal type case. I'm pretty much still at square one though.

[Detale]

orsum then. I still vote for a WDTV Live dude You could have been watching movies easily by now.

[P2PDog]

orsum then. I still vote for a WDTV Live dude You could have been watching movies easily by now.

I'll second that.

I'm quite happy with mine. It's the best purchase I've made since I started torrenting. For price/functionality/convenience it just can't be beat. It's tiny, completely silent, and it's played every single thing I've thrown at it so far, including the .avi files from my Canon camera which neither of my divx players would play.

[Skiz]

orsum then. I still vote for a WDTV Live dude You could have been watching movies easily by now.

Not without running all of the wiring down a hallway, through the doorway, and across my living room.

I've been watching eBay and Craigslist pretty closely and I'll find something on one of those soon enough I suppose.

[Detale]

You can get the WDTV Live to run wirelessly man with many different USB wireless adapters dude. I do hope you find what you are looking for though. Why not build what you want? What budget are you working with?

[Skiz]

I was trying to keep it under $400, but it looks like $600 is a more realistic price.

[Detale]

$400 no prob

LITE-ON Black 24X DVD Writer 29.99

APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower 39.99

Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 47.99 (could go smaller for less $$)
G.SKILL 2GB 49.99

ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom 184.99(-$20 rebate, bringing it down to $164)



Grand total $352.95 and shipping to me is only 13.99. The assembly is NOTHING dude most anyone here can talk you through it shit I'll even write a tutorial for you. as for a keyboard/remote you will have to pick what you want but the adesso one I recommended is great and about $50 most places so there's your $400 price.

[Skiz]

I wrote up a long post yesterday but it was during the "downtime" tesco mentioned.

Anyhow, the short story is that ION330 is what I'll end up going with and probably the "ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom" that you linked. The 330 is what Snee was suggesting from jump street but I just couldn't see how that would push 1080. Though I'll admit that everywhere I look is another positive review of the 330.

I won't be finished building my desks until probably Sunday, so after those are done and I get my office all set up, I'll start on this project. Pics to follow, I suppose.

EDIT: Can I put a 1TB drive in it?

[Detale]

Sure bud, drive size shouldn't matter one bit. The ram however does it will only use 800 Mhz so if you buy anything faster it will "underclock" the ram.