wiredknight
461
1
0
The original htpc which is jokingly big, this is just the case we had available.
The mATX board looks miniature in HERE. Powered by AMD A10-7800, asus A88xm-plus mobo, Corsair dominator platinum 4x2GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 RAM, and a few hdds and a friends psu after a power surge nuked the Cooler master VS550 (which is great at iddle efficiency).
1x beast (left), 1x htpc in Lian Li case that I bought off Carbonite, and a Streacom DB4 waiting for a build.
The streacom has the best manual I've ever read of any product.
Testing if the PSU would fit (it should based on measurements) by putting in an hdd so that I can mark off the space I have left.
Turning the case on the side will let you work on the mobo without removing it.
Just a shell left, I've ripped out everything, I'm basically doing the trial run with all the internals of this machine,I'll only just swap out the cpus before finalising.
Took off the cover of the corsair cx450 that the Lian Li htpc came with to check board dimensions (since the corsair SF450 is known to work but is SFX form factor).
Damn dirty man.
I had to cut it out of the mounted plug socket, which is fine because I'll reclaim the IEC surface mount socket for the case itself.
By a ball hair it fits. Have some soldering and drilling to do to mount the psu