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Newegg has the Foxconn nt-A3700-0H0WBANA AMD Hudson D1 1 x 204Pin AMD Radeon HD 6320 Black Mini / Booksize Barebone System for $185 - $30 off with coupon code EMCYTZT1885 [Exp 7/12] = $155 with free shipping.
AMD E-450 APU Dual-Core 1.65GHz, supports up to 4GB
802.11 b/g/n, 10/100/1000Mbps, AMD Radeon HD 6320
$155
I've got one of these and it's pretty great!
I used to have a full-fledged media PC with 12 hard drives running in the living room, the heat and noise were fairly unpleasant.
I've since moved the DVR down to the basement and set up one of these as a media pc!
It's the size of a Wii (two dvd cases), it has a tiny fan that so far only runs during boot up.
It can run 1080p video over the web or over the network and can even run Winamp's Milkdrop visualizer at 1080p at 30-60fps (with just a few graphic intensive presets dropping it to 5 fps). Not bad for such a tiny pc! All I had to do was pry open the top, slide in an SSD and some RAM, and install windows through a USB cd drive. Take care though, the front USB ports are USB 3.0, and the Win7 DVD has no drivers for them, so you need to install through a USB 2.0 port in the back.
Some notes: Foxconn makes intel and AMD versions of this product, the intel one has some serious problems, including NO support for Windows 7 64-bit. However this one is the AMD version, and it works fine for me under Windows 7 64-bit. Also, be sure to get the latest drivers from the Foxconn website, I was noticing some video lagging over the NIC, but installing the latest NIC driver corrected it.
All in all a fine little pc!
Thanks #1, though if you want the latest chipset drivers they'll be found at the respective chipset manufacturer's website most of time, it often takes a version or two worth of time for the trickle down effect of a board manufacturer updating their site to the new drivers if they bother at all past a certain point.