HTPC Tidy up (56k...dont even try)

[Cornholio]

Following TAKTAK's thread i decided that after ide neglected my media pc for so long it was time to give it a new lease of life.

Now i did buy a freezer 64 lp cooler for the cpu but it was just on full bore all the time and was noisy as hell so replaced it with the stock cooler for now (which i may add is silent anyway) until scan let me buy a freezer 64 pro.

CAUTION :: MANY CABLE TIES WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS THREAD


Please excuse the dirty bedroom, its now clean lol





Did some cable tidying





Snipped the cable ties off, wires felt a little tidier at this stage





Did some cable routing, some more cable tidying and put a few sticky pads on to help with the cable routing. Also installed the Compro E900F Dual DVBT card



















Quick shot of the back panel





Few connections ready to be plugged in, inc my home made coax cables that im quite proud of lol, the connections are perfect, perfect fit into both the Y adapter and my tv card.





Quick test to see if all is well





All plumbed in and working perfectly







And whilst i was taking pics i took a pic of my main pc (not a bad setup for a bedroom i dont think, half decent pc and a HTPC )






Specs are as follows :

HTPC

AMD 5200+
4gb ddr2 6400
500gb samsung spinpoint
Abit an-m2hd mobo w/ hdmi
Antec fusion black case with antec psu
Samsung sata dvdrw
32" samsung HDTV
MCE keyboard (love it)
You will also see a 360 elite hooked up under there too

Main PC

Intel e6600 w/ freezer 7 cooler
Gigabyte ds3 mobo
4gb OCZ reaper
Corsair HX520
500gb samsung, 320gb samsung, 1tb samsung
Gainward 8800gt w/ arctic cooler
Silverstone TJ09 case
Akasa card reader
Zalman fan controller
Samsung dvdrw
1x coolermaster 120mm red LED fan, 1x same but blue, 2x sharkoon golf ball fans
1x 23" dell, 1x 19" wide samsung
Logitech z640 speakers

Any questions feel free to ask

Main point of this thread is to show that you dont have to have a modular psu to have a half tidy case, the case isnt the biggest but i think ive done a half decent job

[Million]

Wow, zip-tie central! How many did you get through? Looks pretty neat though, nice one

[Cornholio]

Well..i know it was less than 100 as i still have a few left lol.

[format]

Very nice work!
Nice set up too

[magneticman]

I love threads like this, great job dude.

loving the case too

[Biscuit]

I see you got that wireless keysonic one on the floor, i bought that too for use with my linux box and its sooooo bad. Need to replace it but i cant afford it

[Cornholio]

Yeah bought that one prior to the MCE keyboard, its ok as a backup i suppose.

[vicar]

Looks very good, well done.

[llololloy]

I actually returned the mce keyboard and bought the keysonic, just didn't get on with the mce on the whole, especially the mouse/stick.
The keysonic is ok but very fragile I've found.
Nice thread, my htpc is in a fusion black, think I may see if I can out do you in cable tie use.

[MadduckUK]

great thread buut..



what in the name of god :|

[Biscuit]

Lol he saved the clipping till last, i usually do it as i go.

[Cornholio]

Lol he saved the clipping till last, i usually do it as i go.

Yeah what he said lol, people take the p!ss when i go on about cable tidying, hell if i worked on another system and it was really tidy on the inside ide praise the original builder, just..in a htpc you aint gonna have the best airflow, so anything i could do to help i just had to do it, even if it meant a hella lot of cable ties lol.