Adams Dvd Player Mce Box

[AlphA]

The good old Panasonic DVD player just wasn’t getting a work out and with PC’s making there way into the family room I decided it was about time I put the PC into a nicer wife friendly case, I say wife friendly because I have several PC’s that I would call nice PC’s with all the fruit, UV lights neon’s etc.. this one.. well its what you would expect to see in a family room. What’s inside it however isn’t what you would expect.

The AMD Duron 1100Mhz gave me some problems with heat however 2x 80mm Thermal take silent fans inside the chopped apart PSU helped that, what you can not see in the pictures is the 80mm fan now sitting on the CPU to make this one ultra quiet Media Centre

The DVD Players ON/OFF switch was used and factory LEDs have been used to show HDD activity and Power status.

Specs:

1100Mhz AMD Duron

256MB SD RAM

40GB 7200rpm HDD

Built in VGA SIS 32MB Shared

350W PSU

Fusion USB IR Remote

Windows XP MCE 2005 OS

10/100 LAN Built in.

3 x Thermal Take 80mm brushless Fans

K so I was bored..

Entered in the Atomic Magazine Hotbox competition so when its up on the page I'll be bugging people to vote for me! LoL

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/hotbox.asp

Cheers!

- Adam

[ossie_21]

Ricer!

[mitchy_]

wheres the dvd drive that uses the old location, huh?!

nice work!

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my HTPC is a bit over spec'ed, but it was my old pc before i lappy-tised myself!

XP2600

2GB hyper-x3200

9800xt

2x 320gb sata in raid 0

2x 200gb sata in raid 0 (1TB makes for fook loads of stuff.. think there is 32,000 songs on it at the moment!)

all packaged in a lian li case.

these cases i can highly reccomend too! we have one black one for our htpc, and my housemates has 2 silver ones stacked on his desk.

my old girl also has a silver one for her htpc, and my housemates bro, and mum both have them aswell.

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[RedLineGTR]

not bad for being bored lol

[ix9]

while we're on the HTPC thing -

Here's my complete and utter f*cking WASTE of almost 1500bux. P.S. It's the DVD-player looking thing with the single Blue LED on it

[AlphA]

LoLz

Ahh I got me a nice Media Center, spent a few $$$$ on it.

Thermal Take Mozart Case

3.4GHz Pentium 4 Dual Core 4mb cache

4GB DDR 2 RAM

10'000 RPM Western Digital Raptor HDD

2 x 16mb Cache 320GB Seagate SATA2's

2 x 8mb Cache 200GB Western Digitals

256MB GeForce 7300GT with RGB out.

Two Fusion HDTV 1080i Digital TV Tuners

109cm HDTV

Nice little toy, cant help but feel its going to waste now that I stream the TV to the Xbox 360.

[AlphA]

Dick Fitzwell; you should come see me for a nice media center quote. They are getting damn cheap these days.

PS: Nice looking TV !

PPS: Dick Fitzwell LoLz...

[ix9]

Hahah Adam, I've spent WAY too much on it already.... and got royally pissed with it many-a-time... It still won't play channel9 HDTV!!! all teh other HDs are fine but! TV guide im paying $3/week for too

Mines an A64 3200+

DFI RS482 Infinity

40gb IDE atm - soon to be 80gb SATA

1gb DDR

Onboard Radeon X300 - 128mb DVI Out

Onboard 8ch audio - SPDIF output to home theatre

But my tuner card is lacking, DViCo fusion dvb-t hybrid single tuner

pps thx wall mount plasma's are win - DVI from media center to HDMI input TV too

[AlphA]

Nice, But your going to need some big fat 320GB HDD's if you want to record digital TV and keep the shows like me! hehhehe

PS: $3 a week for TV Guide? who is that with?

[ix9]

www.icetv.com.au

ps nah not interested in keeping the shows really - i just record them then archive them to divx on my main pc which has all teh storage anyway

[AlphA]

cool, what prog do you use to backup your TV shows into divx form?

* Yep IceTV is the mcshizzle!! I sell 6 months worth for $60

[ix9]

Um, havent filled the 40gb yet!! but i know there's stuff out there to convert the dvr-ms to divx - i guess i'll figure it out soon enough ehhehe

[Pulp]

Nice work Adam!

AVS Video Converter I find is very good! I can convert straight from DVD VOB files to AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV or RM.

And obviously MPEG to AVI etc. Uses either DivX or Xvid codecs.

[AlphA]

Nice work Adam!

AVS Video Converter I find is very good! I can convert straight from DVD VOB files to AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV or RM.

And obviously MPEG to AVI etc. Uses either DivX or Xvid codecs.

Nice, might give it a shot.. Hope it can convert from the Microsoft dvr-ms format.

[Pulp]

Nice, might give it a shot.. Hope it can convert from the Microsoft dvr-ms format.

Hmm not sure! I've got a "COPY" of it if you need could be ~25meg though!