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62 lbs?? Woah..

You'd get quite a workout carrying that to LAN parties.

Fair enough but I thought this thread was in the context of hometheater with emphasis on home. An F350 is a big strong truck but its no Kenworth. A Kenworth isn't practical for daily use nor is that case imho. Just sayin

Richard

Well, I drive Kenworths (Supermicro) for work, and even park my own in my driveway (bedroom), so when I pick up an F350 (SilverStone) for a bit of play I do feel it is a bit lacking in comparison But yeah, I get what you're saying. Though, if I could get a smaller, quieter Kenworth, I'd totally park it in my living room too.

Quiet is the important part for me. Its not like I am going to stand on top of my computer to put up pictures . I cheaped out on the power supply when I built my htpc and now I have to find another , hopefully quieter.

Settled on the RAM. In order to get (nearly) the clocking speed I wanted, the memory had to have a heat spreader. In order to fit under the CPU heat-sink/fan it would have to be low-profile. I think the only RAM that fits those requirements is Crucial's Ballistix Tactical LP. I would have liked to have it clocked as DDR3-1866, but that wasn't available. So I went with the 1600, and got a bit better latency in trade. Since these are 1.35 Volt parts, I might be able to up the power a little, and increase the latency and over clock to 1866. But then again, 1600 isn't anything to scoff at.

Well, so much for going with that big heat sink cooler. It just isn't going to fit. It bumps into the voltage regulators on one side of the board, and the USB 3.0 front panel cable on the other.

So for now I'll be using the stock CPU cooler, and taking the PWM fan from that heat sink and mounting it on the top of the case. So it'll blow down on the CPU's fan, that's blowing on the heat sink.

Where will the air exit? An exit strategy is of equal importance to the input air.

That's all I got. Did I sound impressive? Actually it sounds like you have things well planned and working out nicely. There is always one gotcha so you are doing good.

The whole case is Swiss cheese. It's designed to be pressurized by the intake fans, which have fine mesh filters on them, and then the air can blow out through the sides and back.

So, it's probably not super silent, then?