Xmas HTPC for thee mother? Cheap but yet fast :) ideas welcome..

[MonkyBoy]

Learn something new every day. Just been having a look at that part picker site, can't believe I've never seen this before it's awsum!!

[MonkyBoy]

Quote is to quote a post right away. 

Multi quote can highlight multiple posts even across different pages that puts a popup on your bottom right to let you quote all the selected posts when you're ready. Fyi, delete the spaces between the posts when you do this since there's always an extra one and this can end up taking up quite a bit of space with multiple quotes.

Oops forgot to quote lol, Learn something new every day. Just been having a look at that part picker site, can't believe I've never seen this before it's awsum!!

[slasher0161]

Either and apu or i3 will do what she needs, I personally have an apu in my htpc and my friends family computer is an i3-3220 both do all the tasks they need and can play any online games and flash based games (as well as they ever important age of empires [the only stipulations when I built that computer was can watch movies, read emails and play age of empires and tower defence])

 

Personally I think apu's are slightly better because the use case scenario doesn't sound like it will stress the cpu side on either and extra graphics power is always a nice bonus (Also the amd stock heatsink is better imo than the intel one).

[MonkyBoy]

I defiantly think the apu is going to be my choice now, for a cheap build that ticks all the boxes for it's intended use it's seems like a no brainer now

Either and apu or i3 will do what she needs, I personally have an apu in my htpc and my friends family computer is an i3-3220 both do all the tasks they need and can play any online games and flash based games (as well as they ever important age of empires [the only stipulations when I built that computer was can watch movies, read emails and play age of empires and tower defence])

 

Personally I think apu's are slightly better because the use case scenario doesn't sound like it will stress the cpu side on either and extra graphics power is always a nice bonus (Also the amd stock heatsink is better imo than the intel one).

I defiantly think the apu is going to be my choice now, for a cheap build that ticks all the boxes for it's intended use it's seems like a no brainer now

[MonkyBoy]

Does anyone know if there is a white DVD or BR drive out there. I would like to sling one in if possible. Thanks

[WoodenMarker]

Does anyone know if there is a white DVD or BR drive out there. I would like to sling one in if possible. Thanks

Why white?

[MonkyBoy]

Why white?

Well i was going to get a prodigy in white but I've bought one off eBay today in black so doesn't matter now, unless i'm going for that contemory look lol.  

[slasher0161]

Well i was going to get a prodigy in white but I've bought one off eBay today in black so doesn't matter now, unless i'm going for that contemory look lol.  

 

 

I was going to say the easiest way to get it white is to remove the front bezel and respray it (just be careful with the paint you use white paint can sun-bleach easily if it is cheap and look horrible).

[MonkyBoy]

I was going to say the easiest way to get it white is to remove the front bezel and respray it (just be careful with the paint you use white paint can sun-bleach easily if it is cheap and look horrible).

Ooh, now I want to try this just for fun of it lol.