sydbarett
Broken In
Hi all,
I'm planning to assemble a powerful -P) HTPC using a quad core i5. Need suggestions on :-
(1) Which case to use ? (I live in Kolkata so availability may be an issue)
(2) I want to be able to use the standard 5.25 inch optical drives and currently unable to find an HTPC case that has bays for it. So am open to all "small form factor" cases.
(3) Is is possible to get a decent CPU cooler for HTPCs ?
(4) I'm into a lot of media processing (read photo-editing and video ripping) and therefore do a lot of file transfers. I want to get a case which provides USB3 as well as firewire 800 ports. But I realise this may be difficult so I'm thinking of getting one of those twin USB3 cards that use PCI slots. Is it available in Kolkata ? If yes where ?
If any of you guys have assembled something similar would be glad to know the config used.
Thanks a lot !
I'm planning to assemble a powerful -P) HTPC using a quad core i5. Need suggestions on :-
(1) Which case to use ? (I live in Kolkata so availability may be an issue)
(2) I want to be able to use the standard 5.25 inch optical drives and currently unable to find an HTPC case that has bays for it. So am open to all "small form factor" cases.
(3) Is is possible to get a decent CPU cooler for HTPCs ?
(4) I'm into a lot of media processing (read photo-editing and video ripping) and therefore do a lot of file transfers. I want to get a case which provides USB3 as well as firewire 800 ports. But I realise this may be difficult so I'm thinking of getting one of those twin USB3 cards that use PCI slots. Is it available in Kolkata ? If yes where ?
If any of you guys have assembled something similar would be glad to know the config used.
Thanks a lot !