Ok, this cannot be this complicated. I have looked everywhere and get a 1000 different answers by a 1000 different people. Please help...
This is things I need my htpc to do.
Capable of 1080p for a bluray drive (I have a vga on the flat panel already, don't need hdmi or anything, it just needs to be able to process it.)
An onboard graphics card (to keep down noise and psu) would be nice. (this seems to be the most controversial.)
Optical onboard audio out.
Some medium gaming.
Be extremely quiet (second thing most controversial.)
1000Mbps lan.
Be as small as possible to fit in current cabinet (looking at the nMEDIAPC 5000B case) with a remote to boot the machine (hate to get off the couch to turn the thing on.)
Be able to fit 2 3.5" drives (internal).
Oh... almost forgot... a card reader and usb on the front would be nice.
And all on a budget. < $500 hopefully.
Is this too difficult? lol... Or is it even possible? I THINK I am leaning towards the Asus M3N78-VM board with a 2.6 or 2.8 ghz Athlon X2. Right now my current htpc sounds like a jet engine booting up and that really kills the mood.
Please (PLEASE!!) give me any recommendations....
Thank you,
Josh
This is things I need my htpc to do.
Capable of 1080p for a bluray drive (I have a vga on the flat panel already, don't need hdmi or anything, it just needs to be able to process it.)
An onboard graphics card (to keep down noise and psu) would be nice. (this seems to be the most controversial.)
Optical onboard audio out.
Some medium gaming.
Be extremely quiet (second thing most controversial.)
1000Mbps lan.
Be as small as possible to fit in current cabinet (looking at the nMEDIAPC 5000B case) with a remote to boot the machine (hate to get off the couch to turn the thing on.)
Be able to fit 2 3.5" drives (internal).
Oh... almost forgot... a card reader and usb on the front would be nice.
And all on a budget. < $500 hopefully.
Is this too difficult? lol... Or is it even possible? I THINK I am leaning towards the Asus M3N78-VM board with a 2.6 or 2.8 ghz Athlon X2. Right now my current htpc sounds like a jet engine booting up and that really kills the mood.
Please (PLEASE!!) give me any recommendations....
Thank you,
Josh