[mythtv-users] Re:Smallest, cheapest case?

[Colin Andrews]

Let me throw my 3 1/2 cents into this thread. I was also looking
for small and cheap, but I also wanted something that looked
nice.
I picked up one of these:
http://www.directron.com/cstr100.html

It's a little more than some of the suggestions, but I like the
way it looks better, and it supports full height cards. It's got
a nice internal design, but definately has a cheap feel to it.
It
has 3 built in case fans (besides the PSU) which I don't run so
far. The PSU fan & the CPU cooler seem to do OK.

For my mobo I'm using an ASUS A7N8X-VM. There's a $11 dongle for
tv & s-vid out available at NewEgg:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-211&depa=0

If price is a high concern you might go for the A7N266-VM it's
about $20 cheaper and can use the same dongle, but it's nforce 1
instead of nforce2 & has usb1.1 instead of usb2.

Also a word of advice about all nforce mobos AFAIK: It can
tricky
getting linux to talk to the onboard network adapter. You need
to get the NVIDIA proprietary driver or rebuild a kernel with
the open forcedeth driver. It's hard to get all this stuff on
the system without a network adapter. Chicken and egg problem.
KnoppMyth does support it right out of the box though.
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html


ed at ebonmists.com Wrote:

Re:Smallest, cheapest case? [In reply to] 		
Just looked over the page for that case, but couldnt tell... do
"normal" 
sized PCI cards fit in there? I have no problem buying an
ultra-tiny 
motherboard... hey, theres a thought... anyone here come across
a
microatx 
(or smaller?) motherboard that has a svideo out built in? My
concern with a 
small case is fitting PCI cards in there so I can have my svideo
out. 


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