Cheap Media PC Questions

[XcvcX]

I'm picking up a 52" Sharp Aquas in the next week and I need a cheap media PC that will be the TV room PC for syncing movies from my desktop and browsing the internet. Does anyone have any recommendation or links to recent guides. The cheaper the better :)

Thanks

[MentaL]

[HoodyKid]

I get that you want to build a htpc.
Right? Right.

Case - any cheap tower case.

Power supply - CORSAIR Builder CX430

Motherboard - AsRock M3A770DE AM3

CPU - AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.0GHz

RAM - A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB)

Video card - HIS Radeon HD 4670 1GB

HDD - SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 500GB

If you don't know how to assemble a PC, just buy a pre made one.
They do deliver less performance for the price tho, and you'll also probably never going to learn how to build one.

Here, for pre assembled.

[yjlasher22]

AMD fusion is an option.

[Dawson]

Or you know, you could just get a game console...other than the Wii.

both my Ps3 and Xbox360 serve me perfectly fine as my media centre.

[XcvcX]

You think it's worth it to get a PS3 or Xbox 360 rather than building a little media PC?

[Dawson]

In all honesty, I do. Especially the 360.

Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, you can share appies via media center (I set up a NES emu via that way, its buggy but it works) plus you get games obviously.

PS3 has some of the same features but I find myself using my PS3 for just games, but 360 for movies, music, etc.

Not to mention the 360 you can plug in a FAT32 formatted external HDD and put movies on it etc.

[jM2.me]

And to finish your build use XBMC :D

XBMC

[Dawson]

I enjoyed having XBMC on my xbox 1. Looked into coding for the 360 but there arent enough people that can run unsigned code and the lack of documentation made it retardedly hard to do anything. Sadly 360 homebrew has a long way to go.

[jM2.me]

Ohh oups didn't notice the reply about xbox/ps3.
But yea now you mentioned it, xbox would be the best for media center. Plus it's kinda cheaper and you get more out of it.

[XcvcX]

That makes sense, I think I'll probably just purchase an xbox 360 and have it modded and connect an external harddrive if possible.