11-13-2013, 08:13 AM
Hi there!
As the title says, I want to upgrade my 3 year old HTPC to something with a little bit more punch and especially with less hunger for electricity. The current build looks like this
The planned build looks like this
So what I'm wondering right now is - will this work? I've seen a lot of threads about problems with Haswell & OpenELEC and I'd rather not buy something that doesn't work.
As the title says, I want to upgrade my 3 year old HTPC to something with a little bit more punch and especially with less hunger for electricity. The current build looks like this
Quote:CPU: Intel Celeron Dual-Core E3400
GPU: GeForce GT 430
PSU: Antec EarthWatts 380W
RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3-1066
The planned build looks like this
Quote:CPU/GPU: Intel Core i3-4130T
PSU: Pico-PSU-90
RAM: Kingston 8GB DDR3-1600
So what I'm wondering right now is - will this work? I've seen a lot of threads about problems with Haswell & OpenELEC and I'd rather not buy something that doesn't work.