New HTPC build.. m-itx... thoughts?

[Goldfish92]

Hey, thanks for the quick reply.
In retrospect I have decided to opt for a less power hungry AMD Athlon CPU and an SSD to improve fault tolerance at higher temps. If you had any pics of that fan setup I would very much appreciate it so i could plan in advance
Hope you can sort out the issues with the psu, which wire is it exactly that is damqged?

GOLDFiSH

[streetster]

Hey,

picoPSU 150w xt arrived from the USA this morning - £25 all in, only took a week to arrive too. plugged in and all working great so far.

wire thread is here, i'll get some photos of the fan later today and upload them.

On a side note, I've now got Ubuntu 10.10 running on there, had to compile XBMC from source etc, but now everything is up and running again and looking good. hooray!

[streetster]

ok, here's a couple of the fan - it's a 10mm thick one... it pushes barely any air but keeps the temperatures at a reasonable level (stops the case turning into a ridiculously hot metal box).





Looks good from the top, a little wonky of you scrutinise it tho! (got slightly carried away with the jigsaw)

[Goldfish92]

I appreciate all of your help Streetster and the build looks like it's coming along well

I decided to just bite the bullet though and finally buy a laptop... no more Desktop PC for me