Would This Be A Good Cheapish HTPC Build Thing?

[Corwin]

Case-Silverstone Raven rvz01 $89.99($10 mail-in rebate) (if the ftz01 comes out soon that'l be the case)

 

PSU-Silverstone SFX 600W $134.99

 

Mobo-Asrock H81M/wifi $72.99

 

CPU-Intel Pentium G3258 $69.99

 

RAM-Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB (2x4) $72.99

 

HDD-WD 1TB Green $54.99

 

GPU-MSI r9 280 3GB $199.99($30 mail-in rebate)

 

Cooler-Still trying to decide on a 120mm liquid cooler

 

OS-Windows 8.1 pro for students $69.99

 

TOTAL-$725.92 after mail-in rebates(on newegg except win8)

 

If anyone has suggestions on how I could bring the price down to about $650 that would be great. Gonna try to buy it on Black Friday so stuff will hopefully go down then.

[dizmo]

What are you using it for? Just media or also semi intensive games?

[LAwLz]

It depends a lot on what you are going to use it for. Really old emulators (16bit at most) and video watching? A Raspberry Pi for 35 dollars might be enough. Something a bit more powerful? If the Nexus Player can sideload apps (or maybe gets Cyanogenmod) then that for 99 dollars will be pretty damn amazing as a HTPC. Both of those will be far smaller, use less power, be more convenient, cost much less and be totally silent.

 

If those are not options then I recommend:

Much cheaper PSU. You can probably go down to like 60 bucks and still get a good PSU. Your HTPC shouldn't use more than maybe 250W (but you do want some headroom and such so I would go for 500W max, just get a good brand).

 

8GB is total overkill for a HTPC. 4GB max.

 

Depending on what you are going to use it for, an SSD might be better. It will be hell of a lot more responsive and you can just stream or use a USB memory stick for things like movies.

 

Way too powerful GPU for a HTPC. I mean, when I think HTPC I think "movies, music, old emulators, web browsing, chat programs". That's a better GPU than my "gaming" PC has. I have no idea which GPU will fit in that case though so I won't recommend one.

 

You're not going to need an AIO CPU cooler. Last time I checked the Intel stock cooler was pretty damn silent and that's what you want. You probably won't even need to overclock that CPU.

[Kingofpants]

What are you going to be doing on you htpc

Are you going to be gaming?

[Corwin]

I'm going to watch Netflix but also play games

[Corwin]

what games?

Most likely Half-Life 2, Watch Dogs, AC III , AC IV BlackFlag, some indie games, and one of the Saints Row games once I get it

[Joshua Ondangan]

no need to find reason what to do with a HTPC.

 

just buy it. even if you put titan blacks there or 980 sli so long as it's an htpc it's still an htpc.

 

anyways the parts are good but it can go cheaper is the least I can say but depends on where you are buying and where you live.