The Main Components Have Arrived

CPU, motherboard and memory

Powering this HTPC will be a Gigabyte AM2/AM2+/AM3 AMD motherboard. It’s got onboard ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics capable of playing 1080p Full HD video with minimal CPU requirements, and high definition audio available over the HDMI or optical outputs. The processor is an AMD Athlon64 X2 7750 Black Edition dual-core chip, and I’ve got 2GB (for now) of G-Skill DDR2 1066 RAM. All this is more than adequate for the 1080i/720p TV that it will ultimately be connected to.

Still to come: an LCD to replace the CD player’s original display, hard drive (if I choose not to re-use an old one) and remote.

updates to come as they happen.