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- cfg9000 - 2011-09-23 21:48
Note to potential buyers: DO NOT BUY THE CASE LISTED IN THIS BUILD.
I've seen it recommended here a lot, and picked it up based on those recommendations. Do not buy it. Yes, it's cheap. But it's also garbage.
The rear motherboard bezel barely fits, the PSU droops because the bracket is inadequate. The latches on the front door barely work. There is not a single part of the chassis that isn't slightly bent.
Do yourselves a favor, and spend a few more dollars on something nice. I should've.
- eskro - 2011-09-23 22:43
yes its rather cheap but hey, many use it, many like it for the price,,,
- gdallas - 2011-09-23 22:54
cfg9000 Wrote:Note to potential buyers: DO NOT BUY THE CASE LISTED IN THIS BUILD.
I've seen it recommended here a lot, and picked it up based on those recommendations. Do not buy it. Yes, it's cheap. But it's also garbage.
The rear motherboard bezel barely fits, the PSU droops because the bracket is inadequate. The latches on the front door barely work. There is not a single part of the chassis that isn't slightly bent.
Do yourselves a favor, and spend a few more dollars on something nice. I should've.
I just bought everything from Amazon (free 2 day shipping) as spec'd here (except a GT430 instead of 210), including the case. It all worked fine for me, although things are a bit tight. The only 'cheap' part I really notice is the door covering the front audio/usb. When I click it open the hinge on the bottom pops out of place. I can live with it.
I went with a Seagate Momentum XT hybrid SSD 500GB drive and 4GB RAM. Pretty snappy response times for boot and still gives me the option of locally loading some content. (I have kids.. take it on the road with kid movies in the car)
Thanks for the build writeup Eskro! You made my life extremely easy and it's all working perfectly so far with Windows 7, XBMC 10.1, and EventGhost
- eskro - 2011-09-24 13:28
no prob gdallas!!!
- rbrohman - 2011-09-24 22:22
cfg9000 Wrote:Note to potential buyers: DO NOT BUY THE CASE LISTED IN THIS BUILD.
I've seen it recommended here a lot, and picked it up based on those recommendations. Do not buy it. Yes, it's cheap. But it's also garbage.
The rear motherboard bezel barely fits, the PSU droops because the bracket is inadequate. The latches on the front door barely work. There is not a single part of the chassis that isn't slightly bent.
Do yourselves a favor, and spend a few more dollars on something nice. I should've.
I've been using this case for almost a year now. It doesn't have the greatest build quality, but for $50 with power supply, I've been quite happy with it.
- reta - 2011-10-12 16:51
about using GT210 instead of a HD5450, what's the reason behind that? The HD5450 is cheaper and gives you the possibility to bitstream hd audio.
edit: I can't get a hold of the case in my country, would this one suffice? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133093
- pho01 - 2011-10-12 20:59
avpap Wrote:Easy answer. GT 210 = Perfect 24p (23,976) Playback. Intel IGP = Buggy 24p and only (Cannot produce 23,976) playback and loses a frame in every 40".
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but isn't it better to turn off hw acceleration and let the cpu+sw to do the job? I think that gpu acceleration is overrated, especially when you have g620 which will do the decoding without any significant utilization...
- eskro - 2011-10-13 00:20
reta Wrote:I can't get a hold of the case in my country, would this one suffice? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133093
yes
- reta - 2011-10-13 03:25
Hmm, so what, no gpu that can bitstream hd audio without the 24p playback problems that fit in a mini-itx?
- eskro - 2011-10-13 03:27
24p problem is if u use lets say i3 CPU's onboard video,,,
not when using a separate gpu,,,