Elonex Artisan LX (1 Viewer)

[JeromeF]

My dad has just bought an Elonex Artisan LX barebone system from a well known UK online store. It was £120 and come with: case, psu and lga775 motherboard.

The case has a front LED display, multiple ammounts of controls, a built in RF antenna and built in IR Receiver. It uses a heatpipe heatsink with no fan for the CPU, the PSU is located next to the CPU and has two 80mm fans, a duct is fitted over the heatpipe and PSU to draw the hot air out. It is an excellent design and is so quiet the only thing you will hear is the HDD's or DVD Drive spinning.

I'm about to buy one, just to use the case and PSU with my exisiting setup. My setup is as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
MSI G965M Motherboard
Geil 2Gb ( 2 x 1Gb ) PC6400 800Mz DDR2
Hitachi Deskstar 400Gb SATA-II
Sound Blaster X-Fi XtreamMusic
K-World PCI-100 DVB-T

This case has been tried and tested with various Core 2 Duo machines and it runs flawlsly.

For the price of the case i think this is an absolute bargain, with it's nice sleek design and ultra quiet operating.

I would reccomend it to anyone looking to build a new system, wether they are just using a P4 or a Core 2 Duo.

 

[colincliff]

Hey Jerome F

Followed your advice and picked up an Artisan barebone. I am using the mob which came with it.

Can you let me know what plugins etc your using to get your front panel working with Mediaportal on the Artisan.
Also does the volume control knob work with mediaportal?

Thanks

 

[JeromeF]

Hey Jerome F

Followed your advice and picked up an Artisan barebone. I am using the mob which came with it.

Can you let me know what plugins etc your using to get your front panel working with Mediaportal on the Artisan.
Also does the volume control knob work with mediaportal?

Thanks

Hi, yes the volume control does work in MP. I used MCE LCD Replacement Plugin to get the front panel to work.

 

[colincliff]

thanks for the quick reply - i can't seem to locate the MCE LCD Replacement Plugin. There is a MCE replacement plugin but that only seems to related to the remote control - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...t20468.html?t=20468&highlight=mce+replacement .

Any chance you could post a link the the lcd replacement? thanks

edit - did you mean this one? https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...html?t=2860&highlight=mce+display+replacement it seems to have some problems

 

[JeromeF]

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Yes i meant the MCE compatible display plugin, sorry about that, was not thinking when i posted.

It does have a few issues, but it does sort of work. Was the best i could find so it is all i used.