I am planning a new build to use as a media centre for my living room. It will be used primarily for streaming videos off the network and the internet, and secondarily for emulating old games from NES up through dolphin and PCSX2. Most of the hardware advice I've been able to find is overkill considering the intensive games will make up a small minority of what this box needs to do. My goal is to have it play any Wii or PS2 game I throw at it, but I don't care if the more difficult games are only running at 1xIR as long as they run smoothly.
I am building everything around this case, as it fits the aesthetic I'm looking for, and has the 600W PSU and adequate airflow required for fancier components:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6811163187
and this motherboard, as it fits my desired case while still retaining wi-fi/bluetooth functionality and is supposed to overclock quite nicely:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6813131840
Rather than just throw an i5-3570k in and start overclocking, I would prefer to be a little more cost effective and spend only as much as I need to for this to comfortably run stock settings. What CPU and GPU would you recommend as a minimum to run everything at or above 1x?
Thanks
I am building everything around this case, as it fits the aesthetic I'm looking for, and has the 600W PSU and adequate airflow required for fancier components:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6811163187
and this motherboard, as it fits my desired case while still retaining wi-fi/bluetooth functionality and is supposed to overclock quite nicely:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6813131840
Rather than just throw an i5-3570k in and start overclocking, I would prefer to be a little more cost effective and spend only as much as I need to for this to comfortably run stock settings. What CPU and GPU would you recommend as a minimum to run everything at or above 1x?
Thanks