So we have three elements in the system that're fixed:
- the motherboard - AN-2MHD
- the PSU - FSP Zen 300W
- the PC case - an old noname ATX house
The motherboard has no ventilator cooling on the chipset so that's a good base for a silent PC. It's said that it can well run without any cooling that's not already on the board vanilla. This motherboard is rich enough in features for my taste and the needs of a HTPC. Let's see: it has HDCP compliant and HD resolution capable HW accelerated (but shared memory) nvidia video chip integrated (nvidia 7050PV). It has a HD audio chip (realtek ALC888) integrated with 7.1 channels plus optical SPDIF output. It supports AMD AM2 processors and DDR2 RAMs (4 slots dual channel! important because of the shared memory of the video card). It has Gigabyte network, 4 SATA-2, 1 IDE 2 PCI slots. So ideal for video content, high speed processors, the dual channel can help out the video card's shared memory, can handle great amounts of storage room with high speed.
The PSU has also no ventilator on it, and is a quality PSU, said to give stable power.
The case is a bit inconvenient for a fanless PC, but still we can modify it later on...
Here you go, shot of the mini ATX board inside the case:
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no-fan-300W-psu? *raising eyebrows*
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Yes, this is FSP Zen 300W url
There is a 400W version too, but 300W will be enough of this type - it's a rather stable and I won't put in a power eating dedicated GPU!
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