DivineLight
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- Aug 26, 2017
I build a cheap system for my TV setup sooner this year. It is ment for browsing, sorting and storing media (NAS), all time downloading and streaming / media playback. Currently it consists of the following parts:
Its a decent build, despite the ****ty looks inside. But the case is too big. I bought a Silverstone S05 first, which seemed as the perfect case, but my mainboard form factor was two centimeters too large. I need a decent micro-ATX board which will fit into my TV rack, but still allows a dedicated graphics card and at least two HDDs (More would be nice, even if I could just lay them inside, I'm planning to buy single 8 TB drives for my movies).
Also I need a GPU. My current one does not support 4K, I could get 4K at 30 Hz which will feel horribly even if you just surf. I need one that supports HDMI 2.0. The GTX 1050 I bought used turned out to be a fraud, the card arrived but it smells burned and does not output anything. My TV still runs on 1080p. I don't want to invest 150 € for a GTX 1050 (Current prices) but the price point of the 1030 is even worse. It would be nice if it could handle games at 1080p, just to have a backup GPU if my primary one fails and in case of having guests or travelling with the HTPC (Which is another reason why I want a smaller case).
Are there any good low end CPUs yet? I would pay up to 200 € for the complete hardware, mainboard, CPU, RAM. I know my platform is completely outdated and a cheap Ryzen with DDR4 and a 4K capable iGP would be perfect. But the only low end Ryzen I saw was based on the old architecture, it should at least compete with my i5. The i5 can still handle games at 60 FPS if necessary and it also unpacks downloaded files fast enough without having the rest of the system slowed down.
I'm open for new ideas. The Intel processors with 4K iGPs are too expensive currently, a Pentium G still has only two cores. But the market for HDMI 2.0 is also sparse, only the GTX 950, 1030/50, RX 460/560 support it. There is a version of the GTX 750 with HDMI 2.0 but this one is really rare. For a dedicated GPU I expect it to cost maximum 100 € while handling current games (Mass Effect Andromeda) in 1080p at 60 FPS in medium details. If it can just output 4K it should cost no more than 50 €.
- Intel Core i5-3550
- ASUS P8H61-MX (1155)
- 6 GB DDR3-1333
- 120 GB SSD 840 Basic
- 9.5 TB hard drives
- Geforce GT 530 2 GB
- Corsair CX500M
- Fractal Define Mini
- Samsung 50" UHD TV
Its a decent build, despite the ****ty looks inside. But the case is too big. I bought a Silverstone S05 first, which seemed as the perfect case, but my mainboard form factor was two centimeters too large. I need a decent micro-ATX board which will fit into my TV rack, but still allows a dedicated graphics card and at least two HDDs (More would be nice, even if I could just lay them inside, I'm planning to buy single 8 TB drives for my movies).
Also I need a GPU. My current one does not support 4K, I could get 4K at 30 Hz which will feel horribly even if you just surf. I need one that supports HDMI 2.0. The GTX 1050 I bought used turned out to be a fraud, the card arrived but it smells burned and does not output anything. My TV still runs on 1080p. I don't want to invest 150 € for a GTX 1050 (Current prices) but the price point of the 1030 is even worse. It would be nice if it could handle games at 1080p, just to have a backup GPU if my primary one fails and in case of having guests or travelling with the HTPC (Which is another reason why I want a smaller case).
Are there any good low end CPUs yet? I would pay up to 200 € for the complete hardware, mainboard, CPU, RAM. I know my platform is completely outdated and a cheap Ryzen with DDR4 and a 4K capable iGP would be perfect. But the only low end Ryzen I saw was based on the old architecture, it should at least compete with my i5. The i5 can still handle games at 60 FPS if necessary and it also unpacks downloaded files fast enough without having the rest of the system slowed down.
I'm open for new ideas. The Intel processors with 4K iGPs are too expensive currently, a Pentium G still has only two cores. But the market for HDMI 2.0 is also sparse, only the GTX 950, 1030/50, RX 460/560 support it. There is a version of the GTX 750 with HDMI 2.0 but this one is really rare. For a dedicated GPU I expect it to cost maximum 100 € while handling current games (Mass Effect Andromeda) in 1080p at 60 FPS in medium details. If it can just output 4K it should cost no more than 50 €.