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Originally Posted by meansizzler Nice Find, might have ot get one of these myself, seems they done the hard work for oyu, all you have to do is just put in your components, very cheap to considering a case like this without a motherboard retails for £160 anyway, so it's whisper quiet with a Pentium D 930?, what kind of temps do you get for the CPU at full load and startup?, also does it support Dolby Digital Live?, as in does it have a built in dolby digital encoder like the Nforce/HDA cards...,I would buy this if I had not got a £120 Intel Viiv mobo a few months back..., loookingfor a case for this althoguh for the price of a decent one this is prolly a better option..., can you put two hard drives in the system and also is it a standard MATX mobo?, as in can you replace it wiht your own one?.. |
The only temps i have seen so far is when running Media Centre:
Case temp 39C - CPU temp 40C. (on for over two hours with a room temp of 23.5C)
There are two fans, one for the PSU and one for the CPU.
Both are whisper quiet (but not silent) at these temps.
I will know more when i start running some high def through it later today.
I have the HDA card fitted in the cinema room HTPC.
Like you i wanted real time DD encoding.
I've not tested this yet, and it does depend what cMedia chip they have fitted.
I won't using this as a serious gaming machine, so DD encoding was less important.(though it would be nice!)
You can fit two hard drives, and it has onboard raid via the Sata connection.
I'm not sure what size motherboard it is.
It's either M-ATX or B-ATX.
Because of all the extra facilities (VFD/Card reader/Inputs-outputs), i'm not sure a replacement MB would work.