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HTPC photos

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I promised over a month ago some photos of my custom HTPC, so here they are:

The front of the box showing the 20x2 LCD, the slimline Optiarc BC-5600S Blu-Ray/DVDRW and two of the USB ports
The front of the box showing the 20x2 LCD, the slimline Optiarc BC-5600S Blu-Ray/DVDRW and two of the USB ports
The untidy guts of the box showing the Zotac ION ITX motherboard on the right, the 700GB Western Digital HDD and the Slimline BD/DVDRW Drive. There are two 1GB sticks of DDR2 RAM under the optical drive. Notice the unused horizontal slots in the case at the rear of the box
The untidy guts of the box showing the Zotac ION ITX motherboard on the right, the 700GB Western Digital HDD and the Slimline BD/DVDRW Drive. There are two 1GB sticks of DDR2 RAM under the optical drive. Notice the unused horizontal slots in the case at the rear of the box
The back of the case showing the multitude of connections: PS/2 mouse, USB Wi-Fi Siemens stick, optical S/PDIF output, HDMI, VGA, analog audio out and the DC power cable (the brick is out of view)
The back of the case showing the multitude of connections: PS/2 mouse, USB Wi-Fi Siemens stick, optical S/PDIF output, HDMI, VGA, analog audio out and the DC power cable (the brick is out of view)

The box is running Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) and XBMC which takes advantage of the ION’s PureVideo capabilities via VDPAU.

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