Home Theater PC Components – Chosen by You

We have organized several readers’ polls to find the most popular HTPC components for our 2012 builds. We have received thousands of votes and the results are now available to every one.

Bonus! These are the components I use in my own custom HTPC.

Based on your votes, here are the winning components:

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Antec ISK 300Silverstone GD06Antec Fusion RemoteLuxa LM200
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Price$293$435$620$1095
CPUAMD E-350AMD A4-3400Intel Core i3-2105Intel Core i5-2500K
Motherboard ChipsetAMD A50MAMD A75Intel LGA1155 Z68Intel LGA1155 P67
GPUAMD HD on-boardAMD HD on-boardIntel HD on-boardGeForce GT430
CaseAntec ISK 300-150Silverstone GD06BAntec Fusion RemoteLuxa2 LM200
HDMI InterfaceIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
TrueHD / DTS-HDIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
3D VideoNot IncludedNot IncludedIncludedIncluded
Power Consumption15 W Idle24 W Idle25 W Idle45 W Idle
PCMark Vantage (Movies)1732250059097443
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