Long time out of the loop spec request

[lozza]

I've been out of the loop a long time.. and my vintage 2007 htpc has died on me

Here's what I had:

Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (mATX)
E2140
GeIL 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz
Running Windows 7 ultimate 64bit

I want to keep my old case so must be a micro ATX board.

I'm hoping that my hard drive is ok.

Any help gratefully appreciated

 

[honosuseri]

Is the HDD and optical drive sata?

 

[lozza]

Good point HDD is yes, but optical isn't, that's not a major issue though as I can get a new optical if I have to go sata.

Worth mentioning that current system is being powered off a Akasa paxpower 460

And that I was using a HD 2400 pro 256m 64bit DDR2 PCI-E low profile graphics card, obviously if the onboard is better I'll stick with that but if not hopefully this will still be usable.

Final thing... I was happy with how the system was running until it died, and I imagine in 5 years things have come along a lot further so I'm guessing that I will be happy with the lower end of the current market.

 

[olivier renault]

budget? gaming?

If not gaming, I'd stick with onboard.

 

[Doomedspeed]

Something like this may be a good option.


YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A6-3670K 2.70GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3670WNGXBOX) £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x MSI A75MA-P35 AMD A75 (Socket FM1) DDR3 Motherboard £42.59
1 x GeIL Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1333C9DC) £37.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £36.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £297.53 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Good on-boards and a decent amount of power on a budget.

You got room for an SSD?

 

[Gav_881]

If your looking for on the cheep a HP prolient microserver with a HD5450 will do the trick. they go for about £230 ish with £110 cashback(takes 2 months for the check to come through) with an optical drive your looking at about £170 and it will deal with HD content very well.

I'm assuming your carrying over your OS if not theres lots of free linux builds, would go to at least a 2Gb ram upgrade to run win 7 64 though.

 

[lozza]

Thanks for your input so far everyone!

budget? gaming?

If not gaming, I'd stick with onboard.

Budget, low end... I was happy with the old set up, which was low end back then, in terms of performance for what I do...so whatever we are looking at that will perform similar, I assume 5 years on however, performance will be a lot better.

Something like this may be a good option.


YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A6-3670K 2.70GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3670WNGXBOX) £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x MSI A75MA-P35 AMD A75 (Socket FM1) DDR3 Motherboard £42.59
1 x GeIL Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1333C9DC) £37.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £36.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £297.53 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Good on-boards and a decent amount of power on a budget.

You got room for an SSD?

Is there a specific reason you have included a PSU and a HDD.. Assuming my HDD is good would it not be compatible? and does my existing PSU not have enough juice?

SSD as well as HDD? I'm not to familiar with SSD, but are they fairly small? I can fit 2 or 3 3.5" drive in there (probably be toasty though)

If your looking for on the cheep a HP prolient microserver with a HD5450 will do the trick. they go for about £230 ish with £110 cashback(takes 2 months for the check to come through) with an optical drive your looking at about £170 and it will deal with HD content very well.

I'm assuming your carrying over your OS if not theres lots of free linux builds, would go to at least a 2Gb ram upgrade to run win 7 64 though.

Really want to keep my existing case (all about the looks) Yes I have retail Windows 7 so will be re installing that.

HD content is not an issue as I don't have a HD monitor/TV

Price wise all the above is ok..but I'd rather not spend for the sake of spending.

 

[lozza]

Any other alternatives to Doomedspeeds kit list?