[mythtv-users] Computer case recoomendations
Nemo Inis
nemoinis at telus.net
Sat Jan 27 15:59:36 UTC 2007
On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Brett Kosinski wrote:
>> - Design flaw: the front plate (heavy brushed aluminium) is NOT
>> grounded. In theory this should be ok because it's covered with a
>> varnish so it's isolated from you, but in practice, the tiny recessed
>> bevels of the front panel buttons is not varnished (I guess the bevel
>> was made after the varnish had been applied). In my carpeted
>> living-room, the computer would crash -hard- every time my finger got
>> close to the power button, whereas it had worked fine in my computer
>> lab. After grounding the front panel, this problem disappeared.
>> Unacceptable in such an expensive case, IMHO.
>
>
> Weird, I've *never* had this problem. I wonder if this was a bad unit?
>
It's been reported by others as well. For example
<http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=754651&page=1&pp=30>
and in other reviews.
Of course, whether or not you run into the problem depends on the
carpet in your room :-)
I had the machine setup upstairs for weeks in the lab and did not run
into the problem.
> - Design flaw: the LCD display area indeed has space so you can add
> your
>> own IR receiver, and it's not difficult to do. However, the glass
>> window in front of it is covered with IR-opaque paint. Duh...
>
>
> Yeah, that ticked me off, too. A bit of high-grit sandpaper solved
> that
> problem, though.
>
> - Design flaw: the case ventilates extremely well, however it's a bit
>> noisier than I was led to believe by the ads. Especially noticeable
>> during the quiet passages of a movie. I'm thinking of disconnecting
>> one of the two case fans (they're the source of the noise. My heatsink
>> fan is silent).
>
>
> Well, keep in mind, the fans are multi-speed. The first thing that
> should
> be done is to slow them down (though, make sure to monitor case temp,
> to
> make sure ventilation is still adequate). At top speed, they do put
> out a
> bit of noise (though they're still remarkably quiet), however given
> their
> diameter, you can probably run them at low speed without a problem.
>
They're both set to low speed. While you can't hear them above ambient
noise during the day, they are audible in a quiet living-room at night
(when I watch movies). Though it could be that the furniture & corner
that the computer is in accentuate the noise in my room.
> - Annoyance: there's a HUGE volume-type button on the front of the case
>> that I can't use because there is no Linux driver for it and no
>> information is available (that I could find) to write one.
>>
>
> This works just fine in Linux. It shows up as an imon IR receiver,
> and so
> you can use lirc to receive events from it. See this thread for
> details:
>
> http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3280
>
>
Thanks for that, I missed it!
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