ok..finally getting sold on the idea of a HTPC I am looking out whether it makes sense to build one vs. buying...here are my requirements:
will be only playing movie/tv shows, don't need an optical drive/blu-ray drive..want a good interface thus basic media players are out..don't even want a HDD inside, will play files from a NAS..and will run openelec from a thumb drive...small size is of extreme importance, the device depth cannot be more than 7 inches..no restriction on width, height shouldn't be more that 5-6 inches..
have been considering the zotac zbox with E-350 and HD6310..spoke to a dealer, the total price with RAM is coming to about 15k..14k for the zbox and rest for the RAM..
Can I build an HTPC for rest which will be equally small? the HTPC threads i read in the forums have cases which are all bigger in depth than 7 inches..given my requirements (no hdd, no optical drive, integrated gpu/apu) can you guys suggest a case where i can build the pc for less than 15k?
thanks in advance...
will be only playing movie/tv shows, don't need an optical drive/blu-ray drive..want a good interface thus basic media players are out..don't even want a HDD inside, will play files from a NAS..and will run openelec from a thumb drive...small size is of extreme importance, the device depth cannot be more than 7 inches..no restriction on width, height shouldn't be more that 5-6 inches..
have been considering the zotac zbox with E-350 and HD6310..spoke to a dealer, the total price with RAM is coming to about 15k..14k for the zbox and rest for the RAM..
Can I build an HTPC for rest which will be equally small? the HTPC threads i read in the forums have cases which are all bigger in depth than 7 inches..given my requirements (no hdd, no optical drive, integrated gpu/apu) can you guys suggest a case where i can build the pc for less than 15k?
thanks in advance...
for about 3.2K.
