Media PC, Silverstone LM16 & Geforce 6800 GTS
Yesterday my silverstone LM16 Media PC case arrived, all very exciting. So last night I after getting back from City link I immediately tor apart my desktop tower case.
In researching the case I had noted that due to the Centre mount DVD drive location, I was limited to a maximum length of 225mm for the graphics card which would sit right behind it. I measured my Geforce 6800 GTS (I cant remember the make, but its the reference board so most other 6800's will be the same, think about it BFG rings a bell), the card was 220mm long, hoorah I though 5mm to spare.
Once the case arrived I mounted the my Motherboard and DVD writer (a dual layer Sony job) in the case and saw that though with the ATA cable in the back of the DVD drive the fit would be tight (the ATA lead using up the remaining 5mm) they would fit in hoorah again! The rejoicing was short lived once I remember the power connector on the back of the Geforce card, there would be 0mm available to fit the power connector. Arse Burgers!.
Also I spotted because the PSU is mounted at what would be the bottom of the motherboard of a normal ATX tower case, the separate ATX 12v 4 pin connector lead was going to be less than half the length it should be.
Solution: So I got the soldering Iron out and an old blown up ATX PSU to cannibalise. I soldered a spare female power connector to the back of the VGA card (cringe). Then spliced in another 100mm to the ATX 12V connector.
After then finishing the step by step instructions for the case (one of the steps was "Now connect all the wires!!!"). Everything worked first time. There is loads of room for more kit within the case with my 3 hard drves in the case there is a room for another 4 drives (a spare caddy for 3 and an adaptor can be used to mount another under the optical drive).
Also worth noting I decided not the get the lm16-MR which has the built in card reader, instead getting the standard version which has 4 usb 1 firewire and mic and head phone jacks instead. The bay where these go is a floppy bay so any cheap card reader will go in there fine, like the one I already have.
It wasn't till about midnight last night I got the whole thing running in the lounge, and the case looks rather cool sat next to my Sony receiver being nearly the same height. I haven't had time to investigate the VFD or Remote yet properl,y but will do in shortly. Will also be replacing Media centre 2005 with Vista Ultimate, not because I crave a rubbish user experience or appreciate a slower UI, but purely for the new version of media centre.
In researching the case I had noted that due to the Centre mount DVD drive location, I was limited to a maximum length of 225mm for the graphics card which would sit right behind it. I measured my Geforce 6800 GTS (I cant remember the make, but its the reference board so most other 6800's will be the same, think about it BFG rings a bell), the card was 220mm long, hoorah I though 5mm to spare.
Once the case arrived I mounted the my Motherboard and DVD writer (a dual layer Sony job) in the case and saw that though with the ATA cable in the back of the DVD drive the fit would be tight (the ATA lead using up the remaining 5mm) they would fit in hoorah again! The rejoicing was short lived once I remember the power connector on the back of the Geforce card, there would be 0mm available to fit the power connector. Arse Burgers!.Also I spotted because the PSU is mounted at what would be the bottom of the motherboard of a normal ATX tower case, the separate ATX 12v 4 pin connector lead was going to be less than half the length it should be.
Solution: So I got the soldering Iron out and an old blown up ATX PSU to cannibalise. I soldered a spare female power connector to the back of the VGA card (cringe). Then spliced in another 100mm to the ATX 12V connector.
After then finishing the step by step instructions for the case (one of the steps was "Now connect all the wires!!!"). Everything worked first time. There is loads of room for more kit within the case with my 3 hard drves in the case there is a room for another 4 drives (a spare caddy for 3 and an adaptor can be used to mount another under the optical drive).
Also worth noting I decided not the get the lm16-MR which has the built in card reader, instead getting the standard version which has 4 usb 1 firewire and mic and head phone jacks instead. The bay where these go is a floppy bay so any cheap card reader will go in there fine, like the one I already have.
It wasn't till about midnight last night I got the whole thing running in the lounge, and the case looks rather cool sat next to my Sony receiver being nearly the same height. I haven't had time to investigate the VFD or Remote yet properl,y but will do in shortly. Will also be replacing Media centre 2005 with Vista Ultimate, not because I crave a rubbish user experience or appreciate a slower UI, but purely for the new version of media centre.
geforce 6600 rulez :D
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