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I seriously can't recommend this highly enough. Unfortunately, ASRock boards always seem to be available in only limited supplies for some reason, but if you see one that seems to fit your needs, grab it. It puts both of my recent desktop motherboards to shame, and I'm now sorry I didn't go for as ASRock for it when I had the chance. It's stable, easy to setup UEFI-wise, boots almost as fast as it takes for my TV and receiver to fully power on, and has been very, very stable and reliable. The case requires a microATX motherboard, and after narrowing down the options I went with the ASRock board above due to price and the relatively modest selection of features I wanted for this system. Overall, big thumbs up and highly recommend. Still, everything else about the case is just wonderful, and since I'm not actually using the optical drive it's not really an issue, so I can give it a pass on that. Fortunately, I'm not using an optical drive in this system, but I'd like the capability to add it if I need one in the future, but because of this design that's no longer possible. The only thing I could do to fix that was bend the support beam out of the way, but then that makes it useless for the optical drive.

#Best mini pc for htpc 2014 install

I could not physically install the IR receiver because the support beam was right where the receiver needed to be. The one and only complain I have is that they placed the IR window directly in front of the optical drive support beam. It looks good, it fits everything I need, and the airflow and cooling is reasonably (though not exceptional) and quiet.

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Built-in small window in the front of the case to add an infrared receiver so you can use a remote with this system without requiring a hardware mod or external receiverĪfter building it and using it for a few months, I can happily report that I'm overall very satisfied with it.

For the short term, this is critical as I need to use my old Nvidia card in this case for component video out (more details below).

The height - while I listed this as a con above, it's also a plus - this case is just tall enough, and not any taller, to allow the use of a full-sized video card while not being any taller.

For example, desktops are generally in the 18-21" range, most HTPC cases I've found are 15"+, but this one is only 12.7" - for comparison, that's just about the same depth as the Oppo blu-ray player it's sitting under.

The depth - it's much shallower than typically PC (even HTPC) cases, so it fits in with the rest of my components much better.

At first glance from across the room, you really don't notice it's a PC until you start looking a little closer.

The looks - while not perfect, it still looks pretty damn good sitting right under my Blu-ray drive next to the rest of my home theater system.

It's taller than I would care for and looks slightly more "PC-ish" than I would prefer, but it has a number of great features going for it: While I've never found an HTPC case that meets 100% of my desires, I found the HTPC 7000B a while back and was quite taken with it. I didn't get around to discussing the parts here as I usually do (though you can find the details on my hardware specs page), but I've been very happy with it so I thought I write a (relatively) quick post about it to share some details.įor me, the case is what makes the HTPC a home theater PC as opposed to just a PC that you have connected to your TV. I built a new Home Theater PC over the summer.

Feel free to check it out if you're interested in such things.

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This guide would not have been possible without the hard work of the good people at the XBMC and OpenELEC projects.Note: I updated the post about my 2013 desktop upgrade based on some component changes and my thoughts/experiences after about year.

This guide was built and tested with our very own Gigabyte E350N and Zotac Supreme special offer bundles in mind, but will work with a wide variety of Mini-ITX boards.

Bonus How to: Configure your audio output device.

How to: Copy files to OpenELEC box (via Windows).

Mini-ITX system with at at least 1GB memory and 1GB local storage.

Access to a computer running Windows (to create the installation stick).

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OpenELEC is a distribution of XBMC (currently at version 13) with a streamlined installation and update process, making it even easier to utilise the graphics acceleration of ION and Fusion based Mini-ITX systems to make a very slick Home Theatre PC.

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The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008"įull alphabetical archive on right hand side of page. The Redstone PC is the ultimate Mini-ITX Minecraft Machine