Hello all.
I'm no stranger to building high end PCs, full tower case with the best of everything. So I'm okay to build or buy prebuilt.
But the goal here is quite the opposite. I'd like to build a reliable computer that is "just enough for my needs".
We've all seen digital picture frames, and understand the basic software they have. I want to build the computer version of that.
I have a commercial monitor 49inch designed to be on 16/7 reliably. Which will be mounted in portrait, not landscape.
I want to buy/create a computer that has the horsepower to run 4k, on windows 10, with reliability, 16/7. Even if my pictures and video aren't 4k the monitor will scale up.
I'm just not familiar with the lower end processors and chipsets necessary to do this. Ideally It would be a mini PC chassis, or smaller, I could max out the ram, run a 250 gb or more solid state drive. Fanless a plus. Computer will be hard wired into ethernet and to monitor.
While we're at it, I'm open to suggestions for the windows 10 software to control it. Not interested in learning linux ubuntu, etc. Die hard Windows fan and set in my ways.
Would especially love to be able to control by yelling at my computer, either by alexa or cortana (alexa preferred) "Alexa play my fireplace" "Alexa Play my starfield" I need to be able to tell it to play screensavers as well, unless someone has a screensaver to video conversion app.
Budget: 1k maximum, but it should probably cost less than $700 for the hardware alone.
Thanks,
Dan
I'm no stranger to building high end PCs, full tower case with the best of everything. So I'm okay to build or buy prebuilt.
But the goal here is quite the opposite. I'd like to build a reliable computer that is "just enough for my needs".
We've all seen digital picture frames, and understand the basic software they have. I want to build the computer version of that.
I have a commercial monitor 49inch designed to be on 16/7 reliably. Which will be mounted in portrait, not landscape.
I want to buy/create a computer that has the horsepower to run 4k, on windows 10, with reliability, 16/7. Even if my pictures and video aren't 4k the monitor will scale up.
I'm just not familiar with the lower end processors and chipsets necessary to do this. Ideally It would be a mini PC chassis, or smaller, I could max out the ram, run a 250 gb or more solid state drive. Fanless a plus. Computer will be hard wired into ethernet and to monitor.
While we're at it, I'm open to suggestions for the windows 10 software to control it. Not interested in learning linux ubuntu, etc. Die hard Windows fan and set in my ways.
Would especially love to be able to control by yelling at my computer, either by alexa or cortana (alexa preferred) "Alexa play my fireplace" "Alexa Play my starfield" I need to be able to tell it to play screensavers as well, unless someone has a screensaver to video conversion app.
Budget: 1k maximum, but it should probably cost less than $700 for the hardware alone.
Thanks,
Dan
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