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RIP Boxee Box, and Welcome to My Replacement

xkronkx — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:58 GMT

Well, I preordered my Boxee Box once upon a time, and was proud to have the first batch. However, as support deteriorated into nothing, and now even my local media is beginning to lock up, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and put the Boxee Box out to pasture.

In its place I decided to build an Mini-ITX HTPC running XBMC. My parts are listed below:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor (Purchased For $63.24)
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A75IA-E53 Mini ITX FM2 Motherboard (Purchased For $87.24)
Memory: Kingston Blu 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $30.39)
Storage: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (Purchased For $100.91)
Case: Apex MI-008 Mini ITX Tower Case w/250W Power Supply (Purchased For $49.20)
Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (Purchased For $56.23)
Keyboard: Logitech Wireless Combo MK260 Wireless Standard Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (Purchased For $31.19)
Total: $418.40
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-05-16 10:42 EDT-0400)

Album of the Build Process

Not a bad little machine for a little over $400. Definitely worth the price for those looking to make a new source of playing media. You could probably even whittle down the price to < $200 if you tried. Mine is only that high because I added a little more juice to it so I could do some casual gaming via emulators and Steam Big Picture. I will likely add a standalone video card, and switch to 2 x 4gb of DDR3-1866mhz memory down the road due to my Wii emulator needing a bit more power behind it, but to replicate all the features of the Boxee Box and then some, this works beautifully.

Anyways, just wanted to drop some info about my build here, and show that for not much money, you can make a very nice Boxee Box replacement that has even more features. Updated flash, Working Hulu, 8 and 10Bit MKVs, and you can even download a Boxee look-alike skin for XBMC if you're attached to the Boxee layout.

Hope you found this interesting, let me know if you have any questions.

Our Savior - The Little Black Box

Charbs — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:54:27 GMT

This is probably what everyone will want once available.

http://www.navixhardware.com/

Remote looks amazing too!

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Buying advice- 50% discount off for WinX DVD Ripper Platinum

RIP Boxee Box, and Welcome to My Replacement

Our Savior - The Little Black Box