WoodBox HTPC
| Owner: |
inarschenk Send email Send private message |
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| Posted: | December 5th 2011 |
| Updated: | December 5th 2011 - 10:25 PM |
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| Rating: |
Excellent (5.8)
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| System Specs: | » Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 » Mobo: AsRock Conroe865PE R3 » Video Card: 1gb HIS ATI 4670 » Heatsink: Tuniq Tower 120 » Optical Drive: Toshiba 16x DVDRW » Hard Drive: 250gb Western Digital Sata 7200rpm » PSU: 500watt Antec » Ram: 4gb PC3200 Corsair/G-Skill » Extra Cooling: (3) 80mm blue LED fans » OS: Win 7 Pro x64 |
| Performed Mods: | Here's my first custom box. I wanted to build a decent HTPC that looked as well is it functioned for a usable conversation piece to be included in my entertainment center. I started designing from ideas I had gathered from the online bench testing rigs and created my own out of ½” Pine. I was able to build the entire box from items acquired at a local hardware store including a single 2’x4’ pine sheet, brass screws, and drawer pulls as handles. The box was finished with a rich mahogany stain and two coats of Polyurethane to set it off. |
| The PSU was modded to help keep the box clean in appearance. Since the back of the PSU had more character – I opted to use the rear facing forward in this build and hard wire the power cord through the opposite side. The on/off momentary switch to turn the pc on was mounted inside the psu along with the rheostat (fan controller) that controls the 120mm CPU fan. Next steps - I plan to sleeve the 20 pin and 4pin power cables and add a wireless N PCI card. | |
2 Comments
I voted 10 because of the old good hardware you got. Looks like you tried to max out of that board. That could be the fastest AGP graphic system on earth W/O modification. Why don't you match that Corsair DDR too?