TheLostSwede
26 Apr 2006, 09:05am
I recently got my hands on the above mentioned case to start a project for the living room. This case where chosen because of the usage of larger fans, it sports 92mm and 80mm fans in comparison to the normal 60mm fans on most HTPC cases. This kills the noise but still maintains proper cooling.
Another reason was that the CD/DVD-rom area is at the end of the case instead of in the middle so that a longer videocard can be used and to route cables better. I still want to be able to play games since the 32 inch LCD panel uses a native 1368X768 resolution. Here are a coupel of pictures courtesy of Silverstone:
Front:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/34%20view/LC17.jpg
Back:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/back%20view/LC17.jpg
Right Side:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/side%20view/LC17.jpg
Inside:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/interior/LC17.jpg
The side vent holds a 92mm fan that sucks the air out directly from the cpu if you wish. All bay modules are removable as is the top bar. When i removed the middle bay and the top bar i discovered something VERY cool (no pun intended)
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcradiator.jpg
Whattayaknow, a Black Ice 120mm Radiator fits in between just like if it was it's home from the beginning. This will be an interesting project.
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcradiator2.jpg
Lots of room left for the rest of the components, especially if a m-atx board is used. The psu is a prototype of a OCZ 700W that's incredibly quiet with close to 60 amps on the 12V line.
I had to swap the heatsinks around on the mainboard for the videocard to fit with the bolts for the waterblock on the videocard. As you can see, it's still a tight fit.
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcchip.jpg
http://www.danghardware.com/videoclose.jpg
The blocks:
Note how i had to saw down the 2 plastic tabs on the standard A64 retention bracket since i have removed the heatspreader on the Opteron. There wouldn't have been any contact between block and the core otherwise.
http://www.danghardware.com/dd64block.jpg
As you can see,the 7800 block is prepped for sli but with good, thick-walled tubing, there shouldn't be any problems routing the tubing around.
http://www.danghardware.com/7900block.jpg
To be continued...
Another reason was that the CD/DVD-rom area is at the end of the case instead of in the middle so that a longer videocard can be used and to route cables better. I still want to be able to play games since the 32 inch LCD panel uses a native 1368X768 resolution. Here are a coupel of pictures courtesy of Silverstone:
Front:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/34%20view/LC17.jpg
Back:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/back%20view/LC17.jpg
Right Side:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/side%20view/LC17.jpg
Inside:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/lc17/interior/LC17.jpg
The side vent holds a 92mm fan that sucks the air out directly from the cpu if you wish. All bay modules are removable as is the top bar. When i removed the middle bay and the top bar i discovered something VERY cool (no pun intended)
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcradiator.jpg
Whattayaknow, a Black Ice 120mm Radiator fits in between just like if it was it's home from the beginning. This will be an interesting project.
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcradiator2.jpg
Lots of room left for the rest of the components, especially if a m-atx board is used. The psu is a prototype of a OCZ 700W that's incredibly quiet with close to 60 amps on the 12V line.
I had to swap the heatsinks around on the mainboard for the videocard to fit with the bolts for the waterblock on the videocard. As you can see, it's still a tight fit.
http://www.danghardware.com/htpcchip.jpg
http://www.danghardware.com/videoclose.jpg
The blocks:
Note how i had to saw down the 2 plastic tabs on the standard A64 retention bracket since i have removed the heatspreader on the Opteron. There wouldn't have been any contact between block and the core otherwise.
http://www.danghardware.com/dd64block.jpg
As you can see,the 7800 block is prepped for sli but with good, thick-walled tubing, there shouldn't be any problems routing the tubing around.
http://www.danghardware.com/7900block.jpg
To be continued...