hec Black 7K09BBA30FNRX Micro ATX Media Center / HTPC Case

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Looks great; strong building; effortless to place collectively; fits well in my entertainment center; PSU performs fine so far. I will most likely need to replace the case fan as the computer system gets hot - also hot to preserve your hand on for longer than 3 seconds - after only about five minutes of use. I am utilizing low power consumption elements, so the fan ought to just be awful. As a connected pro - the case fan is really quiet, even so I assume the trade-off is it just isn't strong sufficient to cool even the most power-efficient of builds.

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Good seeking, extremely compact. It seems nicely constructed. Right after reading about Ppower supply problems, skipped directly to a Seasonic energy supply. Plan to replace the case fan as it seems to hunt continually for operating variety. I utilized a Dremel cutting disk to allow the motherboard (Intel DG43RK) SATA connectors, also cut away some of the help for the optical drive bay to allow the 24 pin connector to be a tiny a lot more convenient. If you want to change or add RAM, removal of the optical drive is necessary. I am only operating a single HD and a single optical drive. If you are willing to do a little massaging, this case performs great. Wire routing is a tiny bit of a hassle but not terrible. Fan and power supply may be weak hyperlinks, but I upgraded from the get go.

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It’s solid, low profile, and visually complements the other components in my entertainment center fairly nicely. As other folks have indicated the stock power supply is the weakest element in this case, therefore why I could only give it four eggs. I didn’t get to encounter the popping and smoke show, but I identified it to be also loud and replaced it with the FSP300-60GHT which fit perfectly. Based on your motherboard layout, it could be a tight fit amongst the DVD Rom, memory banks, and the power provide interface so memory sticks with tall heat spreaders could complicate items for you.

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Its been two weeks or so now and nevertheless no PS issues. I genuinely think that the blown PS problems come from noobs trying to place a powerhouse state-of-the-art, power hungry video card in the equation as a result drawing too a lot wattage and blowing the PS. You require a low-profile card w/ low power consumption. not rocket science. Its a 300W not a 500W. (take note!). Sleek, contemporary, built like an Audi and black! great addition to any media cabinet. Makes any tower conversion or scratch construct a perfect media center machine! effortless to make, the face plates off with 4 snaps! tends to make putting the optical drive and HD in a breeze! The mobo drops right in.This such a cake walk create, sleek, fits w/ area to spare in any cabinet, whisper quiet and it looks good! No manual but your mobo manual will tell you anything you require to know. Everything is labeled and if you built a machine before, this will not be an situation. One of my easiest builds! The pic doesn't do it justice. Absolutely everyone hating on a super deal media center case b/c they blew their PS with large overall performance gaming elements. duh! GeForce 8400 with heatsink is all you need, get a half bracket or a card that is low pro ready. nevertheless can get a uber higher res and play just about every game at mid-to-higher settings if require be. Personally, I'm just streaming, web surfing and have a movie database. Only has 1 sata PWR connect, get a sata IDE converter, voila! The case fan and PS fan are quiet as a mouse. Other folks have complained but perhaps they are utilised to silent builds, not certain. In any regard, it's the quietest device in my media cabinet. Makes my 360 look and sound like a dinosaur. Its certainly quieter than my tower construct. I'm content!Get a low-pro video card, I got this one from new egg:MSI N8400GS-D256H GeForce 8400. not only lowpro in regards to pwr but also comes with a PCI half-bracket (which u need!). properly-worth it. I attempted the built-in video but naturally the res was not up to par. do urself a favor, go low pro Geforce.

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I love the case, it's the smallest, I could come across for Micro-ATX. Great match. Case arrived. PSU blew after 2 hours. RMA. When subsequent case arrived. PSU blew following 15minutes of operation. RMA once again.The next case arrived. PSU blew once more soon after 1 hour of operation. I gave up, no RMA any longer. I am presently running the gear with an open lid and an external old typical ATX PSU with no difficulties for 4 weeks now, just to be positive. Will retain the case and will acquire a TFX-PSU from an additional manufacturer.. This is my first RMA-experience with anything I ever bought from Newegg in a lot of years. I truly appreciate their outstanding buyer service and the rapid RMA response.

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Ok the case fits nicely on my IKEA cabinet. It has enought airflow for a HTPC operating moderate HD content (I don't assume enought for decoding or rendering). Not a lot of bays but I knew that. Power Supply is holding strong for now. Is not uncomplicated to route wiring on it.Too a lot sharp edges may well cut careless newb's Acquire it now or else Chuck Norris will hunt you down.

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Good case N/A

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Looks fantastic - like a stereo element - some other instances with brief height are a lot far more expensive.Energy supply included. A very, really tight fit with my BluRay drive (but it did fit - with proper-angle SATA connector on drive and normal-to-SATA power adapter). You can install anything without having removing the drive cages, just require to get rid of front panel and be very patient. Program:AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz GigaByte GA-MA785HM-US2HHEC 7K09BBA30FNRX w 300W Energy Provide LG CH08LS10 Blu Ray Drive4 GB RAM / Windows 7 64 bitSiliconDust HDHomeRun TunerIOGear Wireless KeyboardWestern Digital AV-GP WD5000AVVS

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If you are searching for a light, flimsy CPU case.. appear somewhere else! Quite stiff and durable. The faceplate removes very easily for drive set up/removal by signifies of 4 tabs. Incredibly attractive. My buyer LOVED the HTPC that I built around this case... this complimented his esoteric program.I have seen tons of junk over the final 17+ years of developing CPUS... this is a very well built case. There is no clearance for making use of the esata on a Foxconn Cinema Premium and the 24-pin energy connector is Extremely TIGHT below the 5-1ǚ" bay! This is a case that you have to fiddle around with to make it perform proper... but properly worth it! A con, but a workable con at that. The front fan is quiet with the top off, but another story when the major is put back on. Replace the case fan with a GELID Options FN-SX08-16 80mm or a GELID Solutions FN-PX08-20 80mm Case Fan with Intelligent PWM handle if you have a extra PWM on the motherboard and you have one Incredibly QUIET HTPC. The power supply fan was surprisingly quiet also! I will get additional in the future for additional builds.

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Nice fit of motherboard, all slot covers lined up.Thumbscrews included for coverSteel edges not razor sharp Power Provide lasted about 6 hours Some description for indicators on front are printed for vertical mounting some for horizontal, annoying For the total money outlay I could have gotten some thing "nice" as an alternative of just okay

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Good and quiet. Simple to function with, even though it was a bit tough accessing the case jumpers on the motherboard - you have to slide the difficult drive out of the way. Only one SATA power connector.Challenging to get rid of the front cover especially as there's no documentation provided. I managed to break one particular of the four clips prior to I found how they worked.There is a lip around the opening at the back with obscures the top rated of the slots. If you're planning to install a Cable Card tuner in this Media Center case, you'll have to get out your tin-snips! An SD slot on the front of this case would be a excellent addition.It's not a fault of the case, but I ordered Patriot RAM with a heatsink, and it's tall sufficient that I can't install an Optical drive in this case, mainly because the RAM is in the way.

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I've built about ten HTPC's for buddies and household and this one particular was purchased as a 'lowball' and it performs good with a mATX Gig 785 & AMD 445 X3 OCZ 2GB DDR2 6400 Lite-On BD, working with the onboard HDMI ... operating cool and smooth, did NOT have to get rid of PS for BD player A++ None alot additional bang for the buck with this case than any htpc sort case I've built in the previous

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Initial off, all black case with a good finish to it with 300 watt power supply and a front fan… No flawsFront display/layout has a very good feel to it and the buttons has a lovely feel to them (not low cost at all)Green light for the power switch and orange for the HD activity light. Quite Good!Roomy for a Micro ATX case and it also adds a middle stability bar.-General- I was so pleased with this case I bought two additional of them appropriate soon after I place a custom create together… Not undesirable for the price shipped to the door. None that I can consider of... I wish I hade more to develop so that I could order additional of these factors.

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This case is great so far. four plastic tabs will get rid of the front cover quite effortlessly and make installing drives a pretty easy. Theres no need to pull the power provide at all.Comes with HD and AC97 front panel audio connectors. I havent tried it on HD yet but ac97 works fine. The front panel connectors are a lot long sufficient to wind around the inside of the case instead of going across the MB. only 1 sata power & data cable but knew that going in.not alot of room in the front of the case exactly where all your front panel connectors are.This unit usually powers the usb mouse and ps2 keyboard so they constantly lit up even even though the computer is 'shutdown'. Excellent issue these are typically tucked out of view behind the entertainment center To install a motherboard slide it in from the side half way and take a moment to connect your front panel connectors and then finish sliding it in and securing it. I had no fitment troubles with a stock AMD X3 440, a Samsung DVD burner SH-S223C, and 2gb Kingston HyperX ram all on an Asus M4A785TD-M Evo motherboard and did not need to have the integrated proper angle sata data cable so I utilized my straight ones and saved this one particular for a different day.For what this situation is intended for, it does it incredibly effectively IMO. 5 eggs from me.

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Good price for a low profile case with power supply. Attractive looking situation. Only 1 SATA power plug readily available. A quantity of reviewers have utilized this for AMD based systems. Does any individual know if the power supply will work for an i3-530 based technique? Any specific motherboard suggestions?

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Strong, good quality constructionWonderful size, stylePower Provide effective enough for most HTPC setups -Energy supply could use more connectors, case supports space for 2 hard drives and 1 optical drive, but only has 1 SATA energy connector.-If working with an older optical drive (I had an old spare DVD-rw drive sitting about) it might have fitment troubles. Older drives are physically longer than new ones by almost an inch, and the back IDE cable presses up against the CPU heatsink so the front of the dvd drive doesnt sit flush with the front of the situation, it protrudes about 2mm. Absolutely satisfied with my purchase, for โ i doubt you will find a superior case all round. Just recall to get low profile PCI cards and cpu cooler as the situation is thin.Also, to the reviewer that said he needed to take away the power supply to install the challenging drive, the front of the situation truly pops right off quite effortlessly and you can slide your drives in that way. No directions included so had to figure that one out on my own even though...Setup: Gigabyte 785G mobo, AMD 5200+, masscool ball cpu cooler, 2g ddr2-800, 320g hdd, dvdrw, win7 ult

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o Really nice searchingo Littleo Strongo Everything fit with a really tight toleranceo Comes with PSU & fano Superior ventilationo Horizontal or vertical mountingo Extremely really o Thumbscrew threads all stripped (actually to modest for holes in case)o no ESATA on front panel My pros and cons pretty significantly wrap up my opinion of this case. For the price tag it's truly a fairly decent situation. I am actually happy with the way it looks, it fits in with my AV gear nicely.

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- Compact- Included PSU does the job- Nice, subtle looks- Superb fit and finish. Has genuine heft, feels strong.- Adequate space for all components- Airflow is great adequate - With the motherboard I employed (BIOSTAR TA880GB+), the optical drive (ASUS DRW-24B1ST) covered up two of the four RAM slots- Cable management is a bit of a discomfort, but that's the case for pretty much any HTPC situation, in my practical experience

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Great small media situation. It's intentionally a small snug, and not developed to be a full-sized desktop case. Every little thing worked perfectly upon installation with a MicroATX motherboard. It's a solidly built metal situation, and not some cheap plastic case. Just what I wanted and just what a got; a real bargain with the PSU built-in. None whatsoever.

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-Good design and style providing easy access to everywhere in the case.-Really Sturdy-Fans look to be above typical excellent and quieter than other stock case fans.-PSU is easily removable.-Reset button is also HDD LED (kindof a cool idea)-Looks great. -Power button did not perform on 1st set up, turns out that one of the wires going to the energy button module was not connected. Absolutely nothing a soldering gun couldn't fix. The rest of the situation seemed excellent excellent and solid, but good quality manage may possibly be an concern.-Situation cover is a small difficult to get back on as soon as taken off, but this is relatively common. All around good and low-cost case, it is certainly minimalistic (no fancy VFD display or something) but for developing a basic HTPC, it can't be beat.I was worried when I bought this case about top quality and noise, because I hadn't heard of this brand prior to (I typically make a point to get my instances from a well recognized situation manufactuer) but I was pleasantly surprised, and would certainly buy this case again.

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Great excellent visual fit with other household theater gizmos.Sturdily constructed. 3.5" internal drive bay and the five.25" external bay are also far apart to accommodate common IDE cable for a dual IDE drive install. Plan B: let's go full SATA. But wait there's only one particular SATA power connector and that connector doesn't really reach the 5.25" drive bay. An otherwise outstanding value HTPC situation but for a lapse in energy cabling provision. 1 star deduction for not such as a second SATA energy connector.

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I have built two systems with this case. ( four months continues use) Quite excellent HTPC situation for the funds. Quite accretive and has a high quality appear, that functions nicely with Yamaha and Sony gear. Fans are quiet and would be effortless to replace if you want to replace or upgrade. I am employing the supplied fans and add GELID Options FN-SX08-16 80mm Silent Case Fan to the inside top rated of the situation. This of any smaller case is not for gamers and hot CPUs and hot video boards. I utilized the 300w power provide that came with the case and so fare all is effectively, but you could consider upgrading to a high top quality low energy 1. HTPC systems are commonly left one, so use a low energy mother board, CPU and video source. I am employing the GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board which has integrated audio and video and is ever point you will need for HDTV, 7.1, Blu-Ray, HDMI, S/PDIF Optical method. I am arranging to construct numerous more system based on this situation and mother baord. This is a little situation and there for is a tight fit but operates well with an all in one board. The Sony Blu-Ray burner was an easy install and appear excellent. The energy supply has short cables and requires some organizing so I suggest that you experiment with the mother board installation just before installing the CPU. I ran the cable below the mother board and had just sufficient length. As with any method that draws air form the frons, this case show a dust build up at the entry. I normally use high end situations like Antec but the size and appear of this situation produced me take a opportunity and I am glad I did. I built two these as economical HTPC systems but simply because of the high top quality look I am going to a number of additional with upgraded fans and energy supply and the very same GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board. Because this mother board is completely integrates and comes with fantastic documentation this would be a good program to develop even for a beginner. As I mentioned above I would suggest adding a fan to the inside best of the situation. I am arranging to personally use the supplied fans and power provide as a test until they show any difficulties and will report my final results.GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD MotherboardAMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADX245OCGQBOXhec Black .7mm Thickness SECC Steel 7K09BBA30FNRX Micro ATX Media Center HTPC SituationG.Ability 4GB ƒ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)LITE-ON Bla

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This is a excellent case. It looks great next to my other A/V equipment. It is a smaller case, but I didn't have a problem fitting my components in that space. You can use any Micro ATX Motherboard if you are utilizing a DVD drive. (See Note about BluRay drives in Cons)I have had no difficulty with the power supply, it is a good deal that it is integrated with the case. Not actually a Con, but you want to be aware to use a modest Motherboard if you wish to accommodate a BluRay Drive in this case. Look at a BIOSTAR A880G+ AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard, this functions great. You will need the energy splitter cable to connect to far more than 1 SATA Drive. I used a Rosewill 8" Sata Power Splitter Cable Model RCW-302Program on replacing the case fan with a quieter model, you need this for a HTPC. Look at the Scythe S-FLEX SFF80B 80mm Situation Fan.

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Affordable, smaller, functional The PSU is quite sketchy - don't put anything at all but very basic hardware in right here. Situation is incredibly little, needs lots of unscrewing random blocks inside to assemble hdd, mobo, and so on. Airflow is subpar. Cable management is a total nightmare in right here, make positive to choose up some tubes or at the really least cable ties. Be warned that typical height PCI expansion cards won't fit - it has to be the smaller type (or you can saw/drill down the card oneself, if the accompanying PCB is modest, like a network card).Don't purchase this case unless you certainly need to have the small size. HTPC circumstances (especially mATX ones) are painfully little

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This is a good tiny case for the dollars. Superb option for a spending budget household theater Computer. It's absolutely nothing fancy. Gets the job done.