is this good for a media PC?

hey guys quick question, is this good for to watch videos on netflix, hulu, and youtube etc? i can buy a external DVD burner, but i also have a adaptor that i can hook up HDD and plug it in by UBS and i have a DVD burner laying around that i can use if that could work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119070

all iw ant is to do just what i said watch netflix, hulu, youtube vids, and play DVDs

Looks fine, but there's a couple things to note:

It doesn't include RAM. You'll need a stick of DDR3 1333 memory, up to 4gb supported.

As far as the HDD, you say that you have one already with a USB adapter. If you want to install one internally, you'll need a 2.5" drive, which is notebook sized. This is prefered over an external one because you don't know if the motherboard supports booting from USB or not.

As far as the DVD drive, it looks like it may have to be external. There's only one SATA (newer drives) port and no PATA (older ones). With that fact alone, I'd consider looking for another barebone which includes two SATA ports for both the HDD and optical drive. Sure, you could hook those things up externally via USB, but you'd be bottlenecked by the USB 2.0 speeds.

Just my 2 cents.

Looks fine, but there's a couple things to note:

It doesn't include RAM. You'll need a stick of DDR3 1333 memory, up to 4gb supported.

As far as the HDD, you say that you have one already with a USB adapter. If you want to install one internally, you'll need a 2.5" drive, which is notebook sized. This is prefered over an external one because you don't know if the motherboard supports booting from USB or not.

As far as the DVD drive, it looks like it may have to be external. There's only one SATA (newer drives) port and no PATA (older ones). With that fact alone, I'd consider looking for another barebone which includes two SATA ports for both the HDD and optical drive. Sure, you could hook those things up externally via USB, but you'd be bottlenecked by the USB 2.0 speeds.

Just my 2 cents.

thphaca

it have 2 UBS 3.0 will that bottlebeck the DVD drive? event ho they are called barebone, i though it came with alot of the hardware in it. anyways is there a mini book size PC prebuilt that is decent then? that can run the things im looking for pretty decently?

actully i found this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103468

it actully looks pretty nice for a wannabe HTPC

LOL@DVD drive being bottlenecked by USB 2, even a blu-ray wont be bottlenecked.

USB 2.0 is fine for an optical drive because you'll hardly ever reach the peak of 60MB/s on those. I should have emphasized that it's not so great for an HDD. Honestly, for your needs, you'll be fine with USB 2.0. It's not like you'll be streaming uncompressed 1080p footage or anything, just some nextflix and youtube, etc.

As far as the actual media PC is concerned, just make sure you have all the components in the end and keep in mind what I said about an HDD booting from USB. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.