Hey was thinking about building a HTPC, and wanting it to do 1080p playback to start with, then maybe later (when I have more money) adding in a Blu-ray Drive and a Freeview Tuner. It just need to be cheap, do its job, and be reasonably quiet and (maybe) be low on power consumption.
Planning on running Windows 7 on it using MediaPortal
Been doing a bit of research and here is what I think should fit the bill
CPU AMD Athlon II X2 245 (2.9Ghz)
Mobo Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
Case Antec NSK1480
RAM 2GB generic DDR3
Although something that caught my attention was the Zotac ION ITX D
http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=100033&lang=en
Although I have my doubts about its performance
So what do you think?