<snip> > > I'd like to see quality cases with well thought-out > thermal zoning and > heatsinking, dimmed LEDs, suitably located storage > bays, and including > the small extras that show the manufacturer is going > the extra mile. > > Nick
I agree, but it's pretty difficult to find anything like that, without paying an arm and a leg. Then again, my plan for running a RAID-5 inside that SilverStone LC-10 was ill-advised anyway. :) (I have a SCSI drive tower that is in shipment, which I can put a VIA EPIA in for that. Combine that with spinning down the drives, and I have a good solution for my RAID-5 array.) I think the biggest problem with HTPC cases is that in order to get a really good PVR in a small form-factor. For my purposes, that means at least two tuners (I currently have a PVR-250 and PVR-500 for a total of three), excellent TV-Out (I use an nVidia 5200 for that), good sound (most onboard sound sucks), and a powerful CPU (I have an Athlon64 3200+) for doing non-video related things (i.e. MAME) I tried fitting that in with the aforementioned EPIA board, and I found that it wasn't powerful enough for the MAME games I play. Good luck fitting all of that into an mATX box, and ATX is a bit large for the home entertainment center. -- Joe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
