Here is mine:
I built it several years ago, so it's a bit old school, event retroish but still kicks considering the purpose of its existence.
- Frisby FC-S6035B small footprint case. It's an important starting point, since I had the space for HTPC already fixed, so it needed to be fit in it. I positioned it horizontaly, it came with spongy self adhesive tabs thick enough to do that. It also came with a 300W PSU, integrated front panel SD card reader, and a 80mm caged fan. Can hold 1 x 5.25", 1 x 3.5" and 1 x 2.5" drive. It's dimensions are 99 x 390 x 305 (mm). I'm pretty happy with it, apart from flimsy construction, which is actually true for many other contemporary cases.
It was a low budget project, so almost all the other parts are collected from secondhand shopping sites or was already available on hand. In short, I was not that picky.
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.83 GHz E8300 (now upgraded to C2Q Q9550) - second hand/on hand
- Intel stock CPU cooler (now upgraded to Deep Cool HTPC-200) - second hand/new
- Asus P5G41T-M LX Motherboard (DDR3 but no USB 3.0 or SATA 6) - second hand
- 4GB DDR3 Kingston Hyperx 1333 MHz RAM - second hand
- Sapphire AMD HD5450 1GB Low Profile display card (now upgraded to Palit Nvidia GT 1030 2GB) - on hand/new
- 500GB WD Black 3.5" HDD (now upgraded to Sandisk 120GB SSD) - on hand/new
- LG CH10LS28 SATA BD-ROM/DVD-RW drive - second hand
- Generic USB 3.0 I/O card - on hand
- Generic USB Bluetooth adapter - on hand
- Generic USB Analog video capture device - on hand
- Generic USB Remote Control - new
- Logitech K400 wireless keyboard/Mouse combo - new
- Windows 7 32bit - on hand
No TV card, since my TV has Integrated satellite capability and I have membership for a local pay TV service. I'm using that rig for KODI, youtube etc. streaming, streaming digital content of my pay TV service from the net, playing bluerays/DVDs (rarely - when I need extra subtitles), video capturing (rarely) and of course as a PC. There is not much problem of excessive heating (no additional fans other that the one it came with but I changed it with a better and silent model). Of course it is hotter than my 6 fan main tower rig, but still acceptable and stable.
I have plans for increasing it's RAM to at least 8GB and installing an 64 bit OS for the near future (Windows 7 again, most possibly).
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000