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September 05, 2017
Choosing the right DC-DC PSU

August 27, 2015
AMD's Project Quantum

August 13, 2015
The Redstone PC is the ultimate Mini-ITX Minecraft Machine

October 09, 2014
The "Restomod TV"

April 09, 2013
Installing NAS4Free

February 28, 2013
Building an XBMC 12 Home Theatre PC

January 25, 2011
XBMC Guide updated to version 10.0

August 06, 2010
Building a Green PC

February 15, 2010
Building an ION powered HTPC with XBMC

October 10, 2008
The "Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle 2008"

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September 12, 2008
"Florian", the DVD burning robot

September 05, 2008
The "i-EPIA"

May 22, 2008
The "GTA-PC"

April 14, 2007
The "Digg" Case

January 19, 2007
The "ITX-Laptop"

December 07, 2006
The "Tortoise Beetle"

October 02, 2006
The "DOS Head Unit"

August 31, 2006
The "Janus Project"

August 05, 2006
The "Leela PC"

June 26, 2006
Nano-ITX in a Football

May 17, 2006
The "EPIA Alloy Mod"

April 11, 2006
Neatorama's Collection of Case Mods

February 18, 2006
The "Rundfunker"

October 24, 2005
The "ITX TV"

October 06, 2005
The K'nex-ITX

August 05, 2005
The "Waffle Iron PC"

July 21, 2005
The "Supra-Server"

July 18, 2005
The "Mega-ITX"

July 07, 2005
The "Encyclomedia"

May 25, 2005
The "Accordion ITX"

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May 16, 2005
The "FileServerRouterSwitch"

May 15, 2005
The "Mini Falcon"

May 13, 2005
The "Bender PC"

May 11, 2005
The "BBC ITX B"

May 10, 2005
The "Frame"

April 20, 2005
The "Jeannie"

March 09, 2005
The "Cool Cube"

January 30, 2005
First Nano-ITX Project?

January 17, 2005
The "iGrill"

January 15, 2005
The "Gumball PC"

December 15, 2004
The "Deco Box"

December 03, 2004
The "TERA-ITX"

October 06, 2004
The "Coealacanth-PC"

September 17, 2004
The "Gramaphone-ITX-HD"

August 26, 2004
The "C1541 Disk Drive ITX"

August 25, 2004
The "SEGA-ITX"

August 13, 2004
The "Quiet Cubid"

August 06, 2004
The "BMWPC"

July 14, 2004
The "Moo Cow Moo"

July 02, 2004
The "Mini Mesh Box"

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Inside the Hush Silent Mini-ITX PC
Posted on April 22, 2003

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A close up of the front of the case. The power button glows blue when the machine is on, and has a small red hard disk activity LED above it. The standard front of the slimline CDROM (or DVD/CDRW) drive has been replaced with one the same colour as the case.

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To change the memory or a PCI card, a small blue plastic tool with two prongs is provided. These fit into the heads of the six threaded nuts that hold the top of the case in place.

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The top of the case is a thick aluminium sheet. The finish on our case was quite shiny - you can see the reflection of various random household objects in some of the pictures.

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Once inside, the motherboard and internals are revealed. No fans here!

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Bottom left is the hard drive, in an aluminium enclosure. The three white cables in a curve top left attach to the USB/Firewire PCI panel (this comes as standard with the EPIA M motherboards). The motherboard is top right, the DC-DC converter is middle/bottom right, and the slimline optical drive sits on top of that.

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The hard drive is enclosed in an aluminium case and mounted on thermal transfer pads, which serve to both channel heat towards the fins and out of the case, and also handily deaden vibrations from the drive.

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PCI expansion is possible with the fitted PCI riser card. The USB/Firewire PCI panel can be seen beneath the PCI blanking plate.

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