Which motherboard and case to chose, cheap? (1 Viewer)

[Kulle]

Hello,

I have now oficially chunked my Shuttle ST62k, because it would not wake up from hibernate/standby when a recording was due.

SO - now I have a Celeron 2,8Ghz CPU, 512MB Kingston RAM, 250GB IDE H and a PVR150mce TVcard lying around.

I only need a cheap Motherboard that can use the Celeron processor and a nice case. What would you recommend?

I would need SPDif output on the motherboard, and an ATI VGA integrated solution would be nice. Alternately I would just add a AGP or PCIexpres ATI card afterwards. If you can recommend the cheapest one around?

ATI because I would like to use the VGA to RGB cable I have made for my 28" widescreen CRT TV

I like the Silverstone cases, are they ok?

Price is everything, and I would only use the computer to listen to music and record/watch TV

Sincerely

 

[Eeyore]

i bought a coolermaster case which was quite nice, i had pulled my dell apart for it, but the case was too big for my entertainment unit, so i put it all back in the dell case...

anyway...have a look at coolermaster...really nice for a HTPC setup

 

[aforonda]

Are celerons really adequate for the amount of horsepower you need for a mediaportal box?

 

[hmass]

I use this case it looks pretty good, quiet, uses full height cards and you can pick it up for under £50.

http://us.enlightcorp.com/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?ID=131

 

[Trombon]

I also use the Enlight case with a Asus A8n-vm-csm (AMD) motherboard and think it's ok for the price. The included p/s is pretty quiet but the fans was a bit noisy so I added a Zalman Fanmate 2 to lower the speed.

There is a review here: http://www.caseclosed.co.uk/review_enlight_7473.htm