Thanks for all the good input from people. I guess I'll just have to see if I can reach an acceptable balance between noise and airflow. I've got a few ideas, but I'm afraid I will just have to crank the 60mm fans on the back up to speed. As we all know 60mm fans are just plain noisy.
I'm using 80mm fans. Still noisy.
Does anyone here have their Myth box inside an armoire or A/V cabinet? How do you keep it from overheating? That is my main problem, I think. It sits in my TV armoire and stews in its own juices, rather than being in the open air that circulates at least a little. I asked my wife if we could put it on top of the armoire, but she said she'd rather deal with the noise of the fans on high.
Mine is in a glass-door TV stand under my 36" Trinitron. I cut the back of the stand away so that the case fans exhaust outside the stand.
Anyways, I might try to post some pics of my system layout for recommendations on cooling, but you'll all laugh at my horrible cable routing, so maybe not. :)
There is one Shuttle system with onboard nVidia graphics/TVout that looks to have very good compartmentalized cooling design here:
http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN41G2%20V3.asp
I would buy it immediately if it had 2 PCI slots, it has only 1. But, for somebody wanting only 2 tuners, this system with a PVR500MCE looks like a nice solution.
For now, I choose to stick with my 4U rack chassis crammed under my TV until I find something ideal.
Micah
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