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9/14/11 at 11:20am

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i have also thought about mounting everything inside of one of the drawers, have to talk my wife into this though, lol

Would be a creative touch to do that. Holes in the drawer and side of Media Center kinda hidden with black grills and filter would keep it from becoming an eyesore and giving it fresh air to breathe. You could even paint the grills and stain the filters to kinda match the wood.

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9/15/11 at 12:04am

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hope you go ahead with that, it'll look amazing, make it all hidden, make the vents for fans out the back so it can breath fresh air

maybe you can post a build thread, it'll be something cool to read.

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9/15/11 at 8:43am

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ok, i have some more old cases laying around. i'm going to cut the tray, cages and back plate out of one of them and see how they fit into a drawer.

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9/16/11 at 6:08am

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alright, i cut out a motherboard tray with pci back and some cages. i have some LED's i pulled from the front of a case, i'm going to test fit it tonight.

still haven't mentioned anything to my wife though, lol

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9/16/11 at 10:54am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by svtfmook

still haven't mentioned anything to my wife though, lol

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9/17/11 at 6:18am

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hehehehehe

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9/19/11 at 2:42pm

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well, the drawer is not big enought to fit the motherboard.

back to the drawing board

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9/20/11 at 8:11am

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ouch, that sucks

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9/25/11 at 7:36pm

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i had to relocate the power/reset switch to the back so my kids don't turn off the box.

Hahaha awesome! It took me some time to get my son from turning mine off! awesome job!

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12/27/11 at 11:10am

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so i went a little crazy on my htpc for the holidays. since my wife felt bad for not getting me anything for xmas and i got her a bunch of ****, she told me to order something...

so i ordered this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811204037&Tpk=nmedia%206000b

then i ordered this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811996003

then i ordered this
http://flirc.tv/

then i figured my 5 year old harmony remote is on it's last leg, so i ordered this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16880111043

i figured, since she missed my birthday too, i might as well get that out of the way and ordered this for my main pc
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233204

then i picked up a corsair 500r for my main pc as well.

now i have to try to get the lcd panel working in linux, and get the flirc programmed

all just in time for the xbmc eden beta!

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i5 2500k	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI GTX 560 Ti	16GB Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
90GB Corsair Force Series 3	Western Digital Green 1TB	Samsung F3 1TB	Microcenter 64GB SSD
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
Samsung 18x SATA DVD Burner	Corsair H100i	4 x Corsair AC120 fans	2 x Corsair SP120 fans
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Windows 8 Pro	Ubuntu 12.04	19" Acer	Logitech G15
Power	Case	Mouse
Corsair HX750	Corsair Carbide 500R	Logitech MX518
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Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
OCZ Agility 3 60GB	Samsung 1.5TB	WD 640GB Blue	Microcenter 64GB SSD
Cooling	OS	Monitor	Keyboard
Stock	Windows 7 32 Bit	Winbook 37" HDTV	Lenovo n5902a / Logitech Harmony 650 / FLiRC
Power	Case	Mouse	Audio
OCZ ModXstream 700w	nMediaPC 6000B	none	Phillips HTS3555
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CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
i5 2500k	MSI Z77A-GD65	MSI GTX 560 Ti	16GB Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
90GB Corsair Force Series 3	Western Digital Green 1TB	Samsung F3 1TB	Microcenter 64GB SSD
Optical Drive	Cooling	Cooling	Cooling
Samsung 18x SATA DVD Burner	Corsair H100i	4 x Corsair AC120 fans	2 x Corsair SP120 fans
OS	OS	Monitor	Keyboard
Windows 8 Pro	Ubuntu 12.04	19" Acer	Logitech G15
Power	Case	Mouse
Corsair HX750	Corsair Carbide 500R	Logitech MX518
View all

CPU	Motherboard	Graphics	RAM
AMD A6-3650	Biostar A75M	Radeon 6540	G.Skill
Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive	Hard Drive
OCZ Agility 3 60GB	Samsung 1.5TB	WD 640GB Blue	Microcenter 64GB SSD
Cooling	OS	Monitor	Keyboard
Stock	Windows 7 32 Bit	Winbook 37" HDTV	Lenovo n5902a / Logitech Harmony 650 / FLiRC
Power	Case	Mouse	Audio
OCZ ModXstream 700w	nMediaPC 6000B	none	Phillips HTS3555
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