I made this box, I dunno maybe a years or so ago. It's mostly 1/2" MDF, 12" wide by 12" deep by... i think 8" high. It's pretty ghetto. Well, not that ghetto. I mean, ghetto would constitute a lot less paint and a lot more duct-tape but you get the idea... basically this is me being lazy. I think the pictures make it look more awesome than it really is, but regardless I have a soft spot for it and hope to either clean it up later (re-sand, paint and add some pimp buttons) or make another one. This one really is very tight. And that's not tight as in awesome. Tight as in my wedding ring on my fat finger. I was going to say that "right now" these parts are in it... but due to some unforseen circumstances, this box is totally empty. The parts in the pictures though will probably go back in with a more powerful power supply (the one in the pictures is a 170W weakling) even though this board and the periphrials should be taken care of with.
It's got:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
RAM: Corsair 1 G DDR2 533 (2 x 512M Sticks)
Hard Drive: 120G Seagate 5400.5
CD/DVD Rom: Some Dell Notebook Drive CD Burner, DVD Reader
TV Tuner: MSI MS-8621-010 ATI550pro
Processor: AMD Athlon64 LE 1600 2.2Ghz 45W
For now, I'm using the onboard video... which I gotta say is pretty powerful. It plays Lego Star wars at 1200x800 resolution with the eye candy on. Pretty stoked on that... have yet to see how well if fare with HD video. But, alas, I had some major issues with it once I brought it home... so that's my weekend project. Once I get the kinks out, and some money, I'd like to get a low profile CPU cooler, low profile ATI 3450 to handle the video, and a 400w power supply (which, in theory, i have... just not the right physical size)... and possibly another fan in there as it get's pretty toasty.
Well, there you go. I still have one more box that I haven't posted (actually 2, one's another homemade) and that's my main workhorse/gaming machine, if you could call it that. Maybe I'll do that later.
Friday, August 1, 2008
OK, here's another box I made...
Posted by Alex Cottle at 2:22 PM
Labels: Homemade box, HTPC, MDF
2 Comments:
I would test out the HD capabilities before wasting money on a gpu. I'll bet that cpu will handle most encodes anyway. I mean crap, my little celeron does 720p without breaking a sweat.
the video card would be more for gaming or if for some reason i got a blu-ray drive. i know it can handle 720p, probably 1080i from what I've seen in a couple of forums. It would probably balk at 1080p though with a sub 3 GHZ processor. but really, probably for light gaming, soley for the low power and temps the 3450 draws.
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