Completed My mCubed HTPC (1 Viewer)

[Kricke]

My HTPC spec. (Some links are in swedish)
Very Silent.

mCubed hfx
mCubed iMon
mCubed Borg HPC Heatpipe
Silverstone ST30NF Fanless PSU 300W
Gigabyte - GA-K8N-SLI
AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ 939
Kingston DDR 512MB PC3200 400MHz CL2.5
Asus GeForce 6600 128MB Silencer TV-Out / DVi (PCI-E)
Samsung 160GB SATA Spin P80 NCQ (8MB Cache / Sata)
Nec Intern IDE DVD±RW 16x Dual Layer ND-3550 - (Bulk)
WinTV-HVR-1300

Comment: today I would use a motherboard without SLI, any ides what to use all the PCI-Express slots to? 8)
SpeedFan reports 43C on CPU, 52C on HD and 71C on nForce4 chip, as I understand, from different forums, the 71C is ok?
The watt-meter says about 80W during divx encoding.

In the future I might change the HD to i-RAM to get a 0dB HTPC and faster startup...

 

[johncl]

I have also built a htpc based on the mCubed case. Read all about it on my project pages:

http://htpc.lonningdal.net

I have just installed the Borg 479 heatpipe cooler for the CPU and now the htpc is dead silent! My CPU is idling at around 41 degrees when the HD is spin down. The HD seems to be the major heat generator in the setup, as it climbs to a whopping 50 degrees inside the vertical silence box. Seriously thinking of swapping it with a 2.5" drive which will be more silent and generate less heat.

Some day I will add a 6600gt card that is also going to be passively cooled with a Borg heatpipe thing. That will enable my rig for playing games besides tic-tac-toe. The onboard GPU is however more than enough for playing back 1080 lines WMVs.

That i-Ram from Gigabyte sure looks like a beauty, and will definitely be a welcome addition to my htpc too some day. Only problem is that you would then have to have all media as well as recording tv material to a network drive.