The Build Your Own Articles
- Pimp My Console
- Windows In Your Pocket
- Recording and Producing Your Podcast
- Windows XP x64, Promise and Reality
- Getting Started With Digital Audio
- Turning Your Printer Into A Paper Shredder (On Purpose)
- KVM Switches that do DVI from Aten
- The Next Generation of Cool: AOpen's 37 Watt Pentium M Desktop PC
- Building Your Dream Notebook
- Building Your Home Theater Around the PC
Assembling The HTPC, Continued
1:05 PM - October 3, 2005 by
Siggy Moersch
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: building, ultimate, home, theater, pc
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Assembling The HTPC, Continued

Not much elbow room between the ATX connector and the front ports


Cabling the front connector for USB and FireWire
To get an expansion card into the Hiper Media Chassis, riser adapters are included with the case. These allow PCI or AGP expansion cards to be installed at a 90-degree angle. Obviously, no card would fit into the flat case vertically. The riser adapter thus allows at least one expansion slot to be used.

Because the TV tuner card for PCI is mounted rotated 90°, you need this adapter with a ribbon cable (included in the package)

Now the TV tuner card can be mounted flat
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