just the most suitable ones. We thus decided to go with the Hiper Media Chassis to build our dream HTPC. This case has room for a Micro-ATX board and a PCI, AGP or PCIe card mounted crosswise and comes equipped with an internal power supply. The biggest challenge...

• -Selection Of HTPC Components

notice that it offers not much space for hardware. Even in the case of the motherboard, one has to fall back on a small version, i.e., the MicroATX form factor, which will fit easily into the Hiper case. The power supply is pre-installed, but did not make a...

• -nmedia HTPC 100 Media Center PC Chassis: Desktop As HTPC

micro-ATX motherboard.. From the outside, the PC could pass for a conventional DVD player. The youngest member of Hiper’s slimline series of HTPCs now comes with a pre-installed micro-ATX motherboard. While buyers of previous models had to find their own...

• -Test Setup - Installing a TV card into a HTPC shouldn't be this hard
• -Conclusion - A compact HTPC in Hi-Fi Form Factor - with a Hi-Fi Price

a large selection of cases, many of which were good looking, including the Cooler Master ATC-201 and the Globalwin GAT001. However, these wonderful boxes were much too large. I wanted something in the Micro-ATX form factor, which quickly limited my options....

choices to a small group of MicroATX motherboards. Because we stuck to these small form-factor boards, we had no problem installing any of them in the HTPC cases we chose. The only significant differences among these boards relate to the CPU socket and its...

on micro-ATX boards, we can't help but think that more room might make a high-end 8800 graphics card more attractive. The Components Each Component Considered Silvertone LaScala 14M Case Close-up of some of the controls on the LaScala 14M Case Compact, horizontal...