Hello, Bit-Tech! By the long time I planing to get the htpc, but I don't do it.The reason was, some of them were to expensive and too awful looking to buy it. That change now, why? Because lovely ( ) Intel make the Atom boards. I decide to make my own htpc using that motherboard: Hah! That's small But yeah, I have small mobo but what with psu? I didn't want to usethe pico psu, so I start looked and searched for really small atx power supply. I find that: It is 77x101x125 millimeters. Nice, but look at this: This is not nice So I marked every cable and start disassembling the 20pin connector: It was hard, my fingers aches as hell! But I'm The MAN, I done this And next: Not bad (?) After that I take 2 laptop drives and make 1 dvd htpc drive, how? Ow it's simple one drive was damaged but it had the IDE connector and the other was working but without IDE Then I can't stand waiting and I run the Atom PC It's working sweet Yea, now something concrete. The aluminum profiles witch i use to build the case: It's to long so i cut it... ... and filed Those numbers inform how to put it together: Also I bend some hdd holder: Oh and the last thing, some alu profiles put together and almost finish hdd holder: Ps. I almost forgot, here are my skeches of this project
I am just about to start a HTPC project using a dual core atom. Looking forward to seeing this finished.
I am glad to see more mini-ITX projects. For a long time I thought I was the only one to use them. I found a 275W external PSU that already had a SATA connector I needed. I like your sleeving . Subed. John
bigsharn Chill out MaximumShow, jhanlon303, gimmix Thank you guys! Bindibadgi If I'm not mistaken you asking about OS. So now I using the ubuntu 8, on atom and probably it will stay, because it working great .
Ow, sorry I'm still looking for small, and good graphic card to this... And now, The Update I put all alu profiles together It is quite heavy Now, compare with the mobo Damn, That case is to big for the atom board Watercoolig? What do you think about that?
Watercooling? For an Atom? The CPU doesn't run hot enough. You could get away with passive cooling, which is ideal for a HTPC. You'll almost certainly need a decent graphic card, but don't exceed 50W.
There's Nexxo - always the practical one. /begin sarcasm H2O cool an Atom - why that would be like H2O cooling any mini-ITX or forbid we say it a nano-itx or pico-itx. Not practical. Insane idea. Totally without merit. Won't happen! /end sarcasm John
CPU not hot enough, but chipset is freaking hot! So I must to find good cooling for that Yeah, yeah I know that. Do you know some good model of gpu for me?
The chipset is 21W. Gfx: For sub 50W AND PCI.. dunno tbh, very few make them these days. Something low end with PureVideo or UVD should do you.
Changes, changes... Hi, I'm still here. So no I get few free minutes to show you the progress of my modification. It has definitely change. So (starting from old photos) I painted the profiles: But after painting I had realised that colour looks wired I change it, to black And after that's my girlfriend sad that "cube box look very common and it's not nice " We talk about it and she give me a pic as inspiration to new case. It was this one : So I make a project (it's really simple) I decide - "materials which I use is plexi" So I get looong shopping day I buy this to cut all of plexi Using my jigsaw I cut those ones: After that I take my hand saw and cut aluminium C-profiles Next I measure all to fit it together Then I had take the plexi and go to friend who had CNC He engraved this now better? And actual shape of "case" See any thing? No? Now? Next update soon as possible, but now I must learn to important exams
Funky jump to a totally different case build half-way through the thread I like the second design and engraved mirror always looks nice.
Nice work. I liked the metal work for the HDD holder. I do like the second idea better. I'm always a fan of plexiglass and cool engraving/lighting effects!
spenc259, Jipa, 500mph, ModMinded, thank you for kind words I drilled the holes for the pipes (that's much more smaller but still nice) aluminium corners Prepared for drilling I put it together in that way:
