Replacing my HTPC

ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
edited July 2011 in Hardware
Lately, my current HTPC has been starting to flake out on me. Not surprising given it's running a refurbished motherboard and spare parts I had laying around. I've decided it may be time to replace it. I've speced out this on NewEgg, which I'm thinking of getting:

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=24032508

Just wondering if anyone had feedback/suggestions on any of the parts I've picked out. Some notes:

1) I don't want a BluRay drive.

2) The hard drive in my current HTPC will be recycled into this one as its newish and in perfectly good condition

3) This setup is going to be running Linux. Primarily doing XBMC, Miro and Hulu.

Comments

  • mertesnmertesn I am Bobby Miller Yukon, OK Icrontian
    edited July 2011
    I'd say save yourself some cash and swap the motherboard/CPU to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813154020
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited July 2011
    Considered it, however

    1) No wifi (I currently don't have ethernet cable run to my living room so I'm reliant on wifi)

    2) GPU acceleration on Radeon cards is still very immature under linux and is a complete PITA to get set up properly (my current HTPC runs a Radeon 5450). Unfortunately, vdpau is way more mature and supported by most multimedia applications under Linux at this point. Until VAAPI gets wider support (which it slowly is) I'm afraid Radeon is just not a good option for a Linux HTPC.
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