Building a Home Theater PC (pt1)

This note shows my latest project, building a Home Theater PC. This device will sit with the stereo, in the living room. I am going to rip all of my CD music to this box and use it as a jukebox. We'll also use it to play Internet Radio and for ripping and playing DVD movies. I will be putting all of my pictures on this PC. The PC has a 64 Bit AMD 3800 processor, 3 WD 250 Gig drives configured in a RAID5 configuration (that assures that a loss of any single disk will not result in any lost data.
















The case looks like a Stereo device (click on a picture to enlarge it)















This is the motherboard. The AMD processor is snapped into it's socket in the center of this picture














Here is the Motherboard in place with some of the connections in place. Because so much is packed into a small case, cooling is a big deal. there is an 80MM fam up in the front and 2 60MM fans in the back.