The first piece of the great computer build has arrived…the case. Gentlemen, start your drooling:
Now most people probably don’t drain a major part of their budget on a case, but of course I’m not most people (have you seen my basement ceiling). Maybe it was that I needed a little extra bling to help me get past not buying a new sleek laptop. Nah, actually it makes a lot of sense. You see I’m not the type to build a new machine ever year or two – maybe upgrade a component or two sure, but this case will live a long life. With that in mind I wanted something that could be used as a HTPC in the basement in the future. Something rack mountable would be nice since there’ll be a 19″ rack going in down there. Then I got to thinking, “Do I really want to power up the projector just to transfer a file or change some music that’s playing?”. Surely not. Of course I could use remote desktop from a laptop, but that might be a hastle, too.
Enter the Silverstone LC-18. With it’s builtin 7 inch 16 x 9 touchscreen LCD, it’s perfect for the basement rack! With all that said, I haven’t decided how soon it might actually make it’s way down there. There are some gaming issues to work if it were in the rack. But I’m guessing I’ll have a handle on that when the basement actually gets done. In the meantime I’ll keep it upstairs like a standard desktop (with a second tiny monitor).
Purchased from case-mod.com (via ebay).
Tags: Comp hardware / mods
