Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler What do you guys think about this HTPC case?

Looks good to me! I wish they made that video card in an AGP version...

All good, except I think you should get a hard drive that won't die of dust contamination in the first few hours...

You give it hours? I give that seconds.

All look like good choices to me... I'm running MCE 2005 on a 6600GT and a HT P4 @ 3Ghz and its great. The Abit mobo I use has SPDIF ins and outs right on the board and I think the sound from movies (DVDs) and music sounds supurb.

Now if they wouldn't have moved Vista back till 2007 grrrrr...

FYI to my knowledge the only passively cooled 6600's are the PCIe version because they use an extra chip on the AGP ones and it generates extra heat and requires a fan... that said the one shown above really looks like a great passvie cooling solution.

Well all of my supplies arrived, I was a bit baffled that when you order a SATA drive and/or Motherboard, the SATA cables don't come with the items. Now I have to run out to CompUSA or BestBuy to get some cables.

Also, the Grease for the processor did not come in the box with the processor/fan/heatsink, not sure if that is normal.

Isn't there some bundled with your mobo? When I got my Asus M/B it came with 4!

I'll check again when I get home in a few, I opened up the box quickly this morning, but didn't look real closely. Thanks

they should be in your mobo box.
as for the cpu if it is a retail box cpu if it does not come with cooling gel then it probably has a pad already on the heatsink.

Yep and Yep

The HD Sata cables were in the MB box. Also since it was a In-Box Athlon64 kit, I do believe the heatsink has the thermal pad. I was reading on AMD's website and the 64/FX/etc.. use the thermal pads versus paste.

I overclock using the retail (provided) heatsinks and whatever comes on them. They work fine no worries.