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iccowan
By iccowan
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Hey guys! I am going to build a home theater computer for my dad for Christmas. My mom and I are trying to keep it not overkill, but not skimping on everything. I do have experience building computers but I have never built one in such a small case. My dad isn't going to be doing any gaming, and probably the most intense thing he will do is watching YouTube or Netflix. I do plan to plug this into our TV and replace the Apple TV that he's been using for a couple of years and is getting slow. The only reason I have the GT 740 is because I am getting it from a friend for extremely cheap. Also, if any of you know of a slim slot-load optical drive under $100 that will work with this case, that would be great. The cheapest I could find was $150. Thanks for any suggestions!

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($126.98 @ Newegg)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($122.98 @ Newegg)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($32.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($74.99 @ Newegg)

Video Card: PNY GeForce GT 740 1GB Video Card ($45.00)

Case: Silverstone ML07B HTPC Case ($66.98 @ Newegg)

Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($98.98 @ Newegg)

Total: $568.90

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-19 21:18 EST-0500

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If its just for media, you could get a Pentium G3258

 

If you look in my sig, I built something very similar to your plan :)

My Rigs:

Gaming/CAD/Rendering Rig
Case:
 Corsair Air 240 , CPU: i7-4790K, Mobo: ASUS Gryphon Z97 mATX,  GPU: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970, RAM: G.Skill Sniper 16GB, SSD: SAMSUNG 1TB 840 EVO, Cooling: Corsair H80i PCPP: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/b/f2TH99SFF HTPC
Case:
Silverstone ML06B, CPU: Pentium G3258, Mobo: Gigabyte GA-H97N-WiFi, RAM: G.Skill 4GB, SSD: Kingston SSDNow 120GB PCPP: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/b/JmZ8TW
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