After doing a quick dust check and being
very surprised not to find any, I decided to finally take a few pics of my HTPC, which I completed six months ago. It was a long and expensive journey, involving many cases and umpteen pounds spent on hardware, but eventually I finally got around to buying a Lian Li v354, pre soundproofed by OcUK. The fingerprints were added by me.
I'm rather hesitant to post in the SFF forum, as even though it's MATX, she's a still a bit on the large side. Still, the case was a bit of a nuisance to work with, so that fulfils at least one criteria of SFF.
The soundproofing stuff is remarkably effective and has eliminated the dreaded multiple HDD whine when coming out of standby. Several important bits were pre-stuck, but the rest of the pre cut soundproofing kit was supplied and when I get around to a HDD upgrade, or rather replacing them with a couple of 4TB drives, I'll probably install the rest of it... and there is a lot of it.
Cable management perfectionists should probably look away.
Now located away in the corner, going about her business in relatively unobtrusive fashion. A virgin cable router and Onkyo sub add to the cable nightmare lurking behind the scenes.
Spec Porn.
Lian Li v354
ASRock FM2 A75M-DGS (Why U No have HDMI out?!)
AMD A4-4000 APU
AMD HD 6450
TBS PCI-E DVB-T2 HD Dual Tuner
8GB RAM - Corsair
Corsair 450w PSU
1 x Intel x25m SSD - Still going strong after what... at least four years.
2 x Samsung 2TB F4's, 1x F2 1.5TB & 1 F3 500GB
The system runs WMC (with Media Browser 3), almost completely reliably, which is the main point of a HTPC. While XBMC may look prettier, it's a pig to configure and in my experience crashes far too frequently and Media Portal just doesn't seem to understand the concept of coming in and out of standby. I would like to run one of these two programs, but until I can trust them I have to stick to Uncle Microsoft.
Had to stick the flash on camera phone. 
Easier to take to Uni (for gaming society)
