Blog entries for October 2007

All of the parts now set-up and working, the final part was to put it all together. This revealed one snag. The back panel could not be fitted as intended due to the motherboard being placed at an angle. Again, to resolve this a couple of metal spacers were placed in. To finish it all […]

As I said earlier, the case was gutted and several of the plastic parts of the case were removed. I wanted to also reduce the noise coming from this system, electrical noise that is, due partly because we have a HAM operator living next door but also to reduce interference with any of my other

To start with, I wanted a case before purchasing anything else. This is a key point for anyone building a Mini-ITX project. Get the case first, and then plan the rest of the components around the case. Anyway, I wanted something small, unobtrusive and would not look out of place. I finally decided to go

At the moment my PC pumps out a serious amount of noise, which is fast becoming annoying. Ok, I have a lot of kit in there, most of it I could do with out. What I would like to do is reduce this noise to a minimum. The problem is that unless I go to