The Dewaneya Media PC has been running for a good 6 years, and I think the age is showing. Since I have made some major changes to the dewaneya I was going for a bit of a hardware upgrade, starting off with the media PC.

New Specifications

• Intel® Desktop Board DH67CF – Mini-ITX – Media Motherboard
• Core i5 2300 – 2.8 GHz
• 8 GB Ram (2x4GB)
• Corsair 90 GB SSD – Sata 3 (For The OS)
• Pioneer BluRay RW

Total 187 KD From Professional Computer

What I Already Have

• Thermaltake Case
• Power Supply
• 2TB HD – Sata 3 (For The Media)

I almost store nothing on my PC’s these days, everything is stored on a network storage device which in this case is the Netgear 24TB Storage Unit. This little Unit is gonna pack a punch with the upgraded hardware and will be able to handle everything that I throw at it. Gonna install Windows 7 on it and from there I’m going to configure XBMC for my network, gonna take some tweaking and getting used to but I’m sure it will work perfectly. Other hardware upgrades are taking place in the dewaneya but that will be forthcoming in another post.