My budget for this HTPC build 2014 was less than $500. This media center PC will have enough horse power to play HD and ultra HD (4K) videos or decode videos on the fly for a Plex media server. Make no mistake, low-power does not mean low Horse Power. Inwin BP655.FH300TB3 Mini ITX HTPC case.Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 RAM Memory.ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard.Update (Dec 11, 2015): Here is my updated low-power energy efficient HTPC NAS combo build for 2016. So here is my low power DIY AMD HTPC 2014 build. With Kodi 14.0 Helix stopping support for CrystalHD cards, I had to find way to upgrade my 4-year old system with a good low budget HTPC build 2014. It still works great and draws only about 29 Watts of power during peak load. It cannot handle HD video natively so I have had to install Broadcom CrystalHD decoder. My current HTPC NAS combo is a MSI Wind Nettop PC with Atom 330 dual core, 2 GB or RAM, and 1.5 TB Samsung EcoGreen drive.

Since this will be an always-on machine, it was important to have low energy consumption to keep electricity costs low.

The objective will be to make this home theater PC build function as a media center PC attached to the TV as well as be ON 24x7 working as a network attached storage device. In this post, I present my choice for Low-power HTPC build 2014, which can function as a HTPC NAS combo.

Best nas for home 2014