I say HTPC, this will be the main use although gaming might creep into the equaton at some point
Silverstone Grandia GD01S-MXR Silver Desktop Alu' Case with Card Reader MCE/Vista Ready w/o PSU £117.05 £137.53
Gigabyte GA P35-DS4, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E x16, DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £negotiable (depends on brother)
Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200, Socket 775, 1.6GHz, 512KB Cache, Retail £29.77 £34.98
or possibly a core 2...not sure yet
Scythe Mini Ninja Heatpipe CPU Cooler S478/LAG775, AMD S754/939/940/AM2 £22.99 £27.01
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2 Pro, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-12 £47.64 £55.98
120Gb Hitachi Deskstar 0Y30013 7K250 (7200rpm,8Mb) - SATA £25.99 £30.54
750 GB Western Digital WD7500AYYS RE2, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms £96.49
£113.38
LiteOn LH-20A1H-487C 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, DVD-RAM x12, IDE, Retail, Lightscribe £18.40 £21.62
512MB Palit 8600GTS, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1000 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 675 MHz, D-Sub, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI £75.67 £88.91
Edimax EW-7728In 802.11n *Draft"n" v2.0* 300Mbps wireless PCI card £16.89 £19.85
Keysonic KB-ACK-540RF v2 Notebook Cordless Keyboard, Touch Pad Mouse Included, Silver/Black £23.40 £27.50
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR3000 PCI Analog+DVBT+DVB-S Satellite (1138) £52.50 £61.69
O/s will probably be win xp mce.
Total price from scan.co.uk (excluding o/s and mobo) £629.87p inc carriage of £9.27p
Comments, suggestions etc