Bah, long time no post. In short: Skyrim + whatever else I was doing was so fun and engrossing that I had negleted to do anything else including signing onto WoW and posting here. I also have BlizzCon photos from 2 months ago that I keep meaning to blog about or at least post. Anyway, let’s just say that Santa was good to me this week so our self Christmas gifts year will be an HTPC a bit over my original budget ($400 to $500 originally). Using the PS3 and various software to stream videos to the TV isn’t turning out to be all that great of a solution.
| Component | Item | Price |
| CPU | Intel Core i3-2120 | $119.99 |
| Motherboard | ASRock Z68 PRO3-M Micro ATX LGA1155 | $109.99 |
| Memory | G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 | $29.99 |
| Graphics | PNY GeForce GT 430 1GB | $55.98 |
| Storage | Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 3.5″ 7200RPM | $157.27 |
| PSU | Antec 380W ATX12V / EPS12V | $44.99 |
| Case | Lian-Li PC-C37B HTPC Case | $159.98 |
| Optical | Samsung SH-222AB DVD/CD Writer | $22.98 |
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Total: |
$701.17 |
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I really wish harddrives would go down in price. Paying that much for a 1TB drive when they were going for less than half that price a couple of months ago kind of sucks.