New HTPC build

Soldato
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Just built this and tbh I like it... The fitting is precise with no engineering faults

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Temperatures open bench vs in case with the stock fan disconnected

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Temperatures - installed Scythe Mini Kaze / cpu fan reduced to quiet

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Temperatures overnight look much better, includes a load test just before 4am

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The hard drive is under the motherboard

All the stuff was sourced off the bay and the memory from MM.

Specs

pico PSU - 120W
power brick - 60W
Memory - 1Gig ddr3
IONITX-P-E - Celeron [email protected] (faster than an atom, lower on power)
Case - LCDmod Kit C0AA-S1

Total price £130inc exc hard drive :D

Obviously I'm going to tidy up inside - New flat uv sata cables + the new Ballistix smart tracer
 
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Well the case itself came flat packed and is easy to build.

I'll probably put a build log up after I've done some testing and applied some mods (temps have gone up as I'm not using their supplied fan)
 
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Will this take a 3.5in HDD or is it limited to laptop drives

It's got space for 2 x 2.5" sata drives... However I'm going to route the sata cables out of the case for a couple of 3.5" drives powered by an external brick.

I've uploaded a pic see the OP

Oh :o. Assumed it was self-built for some reason, duh me.

Easy mistake, I too considered building this from scratch for many years which never happened. Thank god for this kit :)
 
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