What Case For My Livingroom?

Charlysays · 12 Nov 2006 at 21:00

Going to be building a Media Centre PC for my living room shortly but trying to find a decent case that's not too expensive is becoming a pain in the ass. Looking to spend round about £100. Thing is there are some nice cases out there but then I get the diminsions and they are either too big (like a desktop on it's side) or too small. (slimline but with no room and rubbish power supply) Just looking for suggestions guys. Don't mind paying a bit over budget if it's decent mind you. I have a Pentium 805D 2.66 that I will be using so must have power for this and some way of quiet cooling. Any Ideas?

Messiah Khan · 12 Nov 2006 at 22:27

The silverstone Lascala series are pretty decent.

Yewen · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:45

This full ATX or mATX?

Charlysays · 13 Nov 2006 at 03:00

Yewen said:
This full ATX or mATX?

Not fussed as long as it fits in my Tv Cabinette. My problem seems to be the depth of most cases. I was going to get this from Oc's Uk : Antec Fusion HTPC Case - 430HE Watt PSU (CA-060-AN) and it's ok width and hight but about 3 inches too deep for my tv stand/cabinette. Really annoying. The Antec case is 483mm deep! That's about the same as a normal desktop.

I have ordered this as it fits the space I have in my living room and have only my upscaling Dvd Player and Xbox360 to go on it and wanted to add a Media centre Pc to it but trying to find a decent looking case is really annoying me.

Specifications for the SOUNDSTYLE WG3AV
Max Weight (Top Shelf) 60Kg
Dimensions Width 1200mm (1080mm Middle and bottom shelves)
Height 490
Depth 460mm
Packed Weight 33kg

Edit
Just found some different specs for this case (antec Fusion) saying it is 5.5 inches high, 17.5 wide and 16.3 deep, now if that's the "case" (pardon the pun) it may fit by the proverbial ball hair.

WJA96 · 13 Nov 2006 at 06:07

Charlysays said:
I was going to get this from Oc's Uk : Antec Fusion HTPC Case - 430HE Watt PSU (CA-060-AN) and it's ok width and hight but about 3 inches too deep for my tv stand/cabinette. Really annoying. The Antec case is 483mm deep! That's about the same as a normal desktop.

That's because it is a normal desktop case - it's the NSK2400 with a VFD pre-fitted into the top 5.25" bay and a volume control bodged onto the front.

WJA96 · 13 Nov 2006 at 06:11

If you don't mind my saying so, that is probably the worst processor ever for this application - it is two early Prescott cores together on a single die. The 8-series are probably the hottest running Intel chips ever released. Trying to cool that quietly in a mATX case is going to be a real nightmare.

Charlysays · 13 Nov 2006 at 10:59

WJA96 said:
If you don't mind my saying so, that is probably the worst processor ever for this application - it is two early Prescott cores together on a single die. The 8-series are probably the hottest running Intel chips ever released. Trying to cool that quietly in a mATX case is going to be a real nightmare.

I realise it's not the best CPU as I am using it at the mo in my Dell Dimension 5150 that I turned into a Media centre. But what I have found is it does not take much cooling as the fan very rairely spins up due to my Digital Tv card doing the processing. All it's going to be used for is recording freeview Tv so it won't be taxed that much. Oh and playing music. I'm just looking for a nice case to put the CPU, my 300gig HD and my 1gig of Ram into that I have already. But I will say that I did convert a movie to Dvd on it one time and Wow, it sounded like a helicopter lol, I honestly saw small insects and a cat being sucked through it like a jet engine when the fan spun up to full speed to cool it!