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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1098718" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>I like to show you my HTPC project build in a drawer. As I wanted the HTPC to be as invisible as possible I build it into a drawer of an<a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30053921/#/80103344" target="_blank"> IKEA "Malm" 3 drawer chest</a>. The system is build around an <a href="http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz" target="_blank">Intel Core i5 4590</a>. The mainboard is an <a href="http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97M%20Pro4/" target="_blank">Asrock H97M Pro 4</a>, the cooler is an <a href="http://www.arctic.ac/de_en/freezer-13.html" target="_blank">Arctic Cooling Freezer 13</a>. it has 8 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM, one <a href="http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F62357162%2FProducts%2F091204" target="_blank">Digital Devices CineS2 V6.5</a> DVB-S2 dual tuner card, an OCZ 60GB SSD, 9 internal and 4 external HDD from 1.5 to 3 TByte capacity. The power supply is a BeQuiet 400 watts laying around here. As remote I use an old but very good working Microsoft MCE USB receiver together with an <a href="http://www.oneforall.co.uk/universal-remotes/urc7962-smartcontrol-motion.html" target="_blank">OneForAll URC 7962</a> transmitter as replacement for the original MCE transmitter which is broken some time ago.</p><p></p><p>I have mounted all components on a wooden board that fits into the drawer nicely. It is painted to give better adhesive strength for the twin sided adhesive tape I've used to mount most of the components. This tape really is strong and at the same time it reduces noise as it prevents vibrations to be send to the wooden board.</p><p>The cooler really is huge but fits nicely into the drawer, And it gives me temperatures below 40°C ( = 104° Fahrenheit) at 100% CPU load on a really hot (at least for northern Germany) midsummer day (more than 30° C).</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7900-jpg.152381/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7901-jpg.152382/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>First to mount is the Mainboard right in the centre of the board. It's mounted with woodscrews and rubber gaskets because I had them laying around. The rubber is cushioning possible vibrations and noise.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7904-jpg.152384/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>There really are lots of cables to mount until all internal HDD are connected.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7907-jpg.152385/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7908-jpg.152386/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>Small parts (like this extra USB 2 connectors) are mounted with tape also.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7909-jpg.152387/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>A view from the other side before the board is put into the drawer.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7910-jpg.152388/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>All fits nicely</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7912-jpg.152389/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>If you need to lay cables on a sharp edge you need to "unsharp" it a bit. Some tape can do the magic.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7913-jpg.152390/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>How the system looks alike in my living room:</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7914-jpg.152391/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7916-jpg.152392/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7917-jpg.152393/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p>The external USB 3.0 HDD are hidden inside the middle drawer.</p><p></p><p>As software I use Windows 7 Ultimate x64, MediaPortal 1.9 Pre, Media Portal 2.0 (most recent team internal version) and XBMC 13... The MP1 TV Server is used together with SQLExpress 2014 as I wasn't able to make MySQL 5.6 working properly.</p><p></p><p>The Windows System information gives an first impression how powerful the system, CPU and GPU is.</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/zwischenablage-1-jpg.152398/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>And those are temperatures while the CPU is working on 100% load a long time:</p><p><img src="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/zwischenablage-1-jpg.152498/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>I'm really impressed how powerful my new system is. Especially the HD4600 GPU of the Haswell i5 is unbelievable... It can recode HDTV recordings at 200 FPS (using Handbrake with Quick Sync enabled) and you can watch 4K content inside MP at the same time without any issues. VA Deinterlacing is working like a charm, the picture is crystal clear and razor sharp.</p><p>The HD4600 outperforms all cheaper discrete graphics cards (below 100$), no matter if they are manufactured by AMD or NVidia. You need to use something like a Nvidia GTX 750 if you want to have at least a little bit more gfx power. The HD4600 is the best performing HTPC graphics solution I've ever seen with my own eyes. The video picture quality is visible better as with e.G. the GTX750. I had a GTX750 here to build into a gamer PC that time I was building my HTPC, so that's why I can compare it properly.</p><p></p><p>The noise level goes from zero if most of the HDD are sleeping up to a light, quietly noise when some HDD are spinning. And the power consumption is at a nice low level. In S5 it's 0.2 Watts , in Idle it's around 40 Watts (with 15 HDD) and it goes up to 60 Watts if the CPU is loaded.</p><p></p><p>Overall it really is a great HTPC system without disturbing the living room at all. WAF is at 100% this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1098718, member: 109222"] Hi. I like to show you my HTPC project build in a drawer. As I wanted the HTPC to be as invisible as possible I build it into a drawer of an[URL='http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30053921/#/80103344'] IKEA "Malm" 3 drawer chest[/URL]. The system is build around an [URL='http://ark.intel.com/products/80815/Intel-Core-i5-4590-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz']Intel Core i5 4590[/URL]. The mainboard is an [URL='http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H97M%20Pro4/']Asrock H97M Pro 4[/URL], the cooler is an [URL='http://www.arctic.ac/de_en/freezer-13.html']Arctic Cooling Freezer 13[/URL]. it has 8 GB of DDR3 1333 RAM, one [URL='http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F62357162%2FProducts%2F091204']Digital Devices CineS2 V6.5[/URL] DVB-S2 dual tuner card, an OCZ 60GB SSD, 9 internal and 4 external HDD from 1.5 to 3 TByte capacity. The power supply is a BeQuiet 400 watts laying around here. As remote I use an old but very good working Microsoft MCE USB receiver together with an [URL='http://www.oneforall.co.uk/universal-remotes/urc7962-smartcontrol-motion.html']OneForAll URC 7962[/URL] transmitter as replacement for the original MCE transmitter which is broken some time ago. I have mounted all components on a wooden board that fits into the drawer nicely. It is painted to give better adhesive strength for the twin sided adhesive tape I've used to mount most of the components. This tape really is strong and at the same time it reduces noise as it prevents vibrations to be send to the wooden board. The cooler really is huge but fits nicely into the drawer, And it gives me temperatures below 40°C ( = 104° Fahrenheit) at 100% CPU load on a really hot (at least for northern Germany) midsummer day (more than 30° C). [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7900-jpg.152381/[/IMG] [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7901-jpg.152382/[/IMG] First to mount is the Mainboard right in the centre of the board. It's mounted with woodscrews and rubber gaskets because I had them laying around. The rubber is cushioning possible vibrations and noise. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7904-jpg.152384/[/IMG] There really are lots of cables to mount until all internal HDD are connected. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7907-jpg.152385/[/IMG] [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7908-jpg.152386/[/IMG] Small parts (like this extra USB 2 connectors) are mounted with tape also. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7909-jpg.152387/[/IMG] A view from the other side before the board is put into the drawer. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7910-jpg.152388/[/IMG] All fits nicely [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7912-jpg.152389/[/IMG] If you need to lay cables on a sharp edge you need to "unsharp" it a bit. Some tape can do the magic. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7913-jpg.152390/[/IMG] How the system looks alike in my living room: [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7914-jpg.152391/[/IMG] [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7916-jpg.152392/[/IMG] [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/dscf7917-jpg.152393/[/IMG] The external USB 3.0 HDD are hidden inside the middle drawer. As software I use Windows 7 Ultimate x64, MediaPortal 1.9 Pre, Media Portal 2.0 (most recent team internal version) and XBMC 13... The MP1 TV Server is used together with SQLExpress 2014 as I wasn't able to make MySQL 5.6 working properly. The Windows System information gives an first impression how powerful the system, CPU and GPU is. [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/zwischenablage-1-jpg.152398/[/IMG] And those are temperatures while the CPU is working on 100% load a long time: [IMG]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/zwischenablage-1-jpg.152498/[/IMG] I'm really impressed how powerful my new system is. Especially the HD4600 GPU of the Haswell i5 is unbelievable... It can recode HDTV recordings at 200 FPS (using Handbrake with Quick Sync enabled) and you can watch 4K content inside MP at the same time without any issues. VA Deinterlacing is working like a charm, the picture is crystal clear and razor sharp. The HD4600 outperforms all cheaper discrete graphics cards (below 100$), no matter if they are manufactured by AMD or NVidia. You need to use something like a Nvidia GTX 750 if you want to have at least a little bit more gfx power. The HD4600 is the best performing HTPC graphics solution I've ever seen with my own eyes. The video picture quality is visible better as with e.G. the GTX750. I had a GTX750 here to build into a gamer PC that time I was building my HTPC, so that's why I can compare it properly. The noise level goes from zero if most of the HDD are sleeping up to a light, quietly noise when some HDD are spinning. And the power consumption is at a nice low level. In S5 it's 0.2 Watts , in Idle it's around 40 Watts (with 15 HDD) and it goes up to 60 Watts if the CPU is loaded. Overall it really is a great HTPC system without disturbing the living room at all. WAF is at 100% this way. [/QUOTE]
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