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Mr_love_monkey · 20-03-2008, 11:06

I'm toying with the idea of build a HTPC - what I want is something small, but fits in with other audio/video equipment.

I just want something that will play dvds (with the option of blu-ray at some point in the future), divx,etc, and play 'backed up' copies of dvds - so ideally what I'd like to do is take my son's dvds, copy them to an iso, store them on the hard drive, and then use something like daemon tools to mount then in a virtual drive, and watch them that way.

I've been looking at this case :

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=480141

which is nice, and wouldn't look out of place - but it's only got a 130w powersupply.

I was thinking of using this cpu : http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=30004

as it uses about 45w - but then that leaves 80 odd watts, for everything else - am I likely to get hard drive/dvd/Motherboard/Graphics card out of that?

The more I look at it, the less likely I think it is...

20-03-2008, 11:06	#1
Mr_love_monkey Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London way Age: 49 Services: Sarcasm Posts: 8,376	HTPC / Is this doable? I'm toying with the idea of build a HTPC - what I want is something small, but fits in with other audio/video equipment. I just want something that will play dvds (with the option of blu-ray at some point in the future), divx,etc, and play 'backed up' copies of dvds - so ideally what I'd like to do is take my son's dvds, copy them to an iso, store them on the hard drive, and then use something like daemon tools to mount then in a virtual drive, and watch them that way. I've been looking at this case : http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=480141 which is nice, and wouldn't look out of place - but it's only got a 130w powersupply. I was thinking of using this cpu : http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=30004 as it uses about 45w - but then that leaves 80 odd watts, for everything else - am I likely to get hard drive/dvd/Motherboard/Graphics card out of that? The more I look at it, the less likely I think it is...