Category Archives: ITX

Building a custom ITX HTPC computer with wooden case mod – Part 3

Welcome back for yet another riveting post on my computer building adventures. If you haven’t read Part 1 or Part 2 of this excellent writing exercise, well you oughta! So now I have the box for the case. What I’m going to do next is making some measurements and working out how everything will fit in, then I will start on cutting and drilling process. To do this though, I am going to need a…

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Building a custom ITX HTPC computer with wooden case mod – Part 2

Welcome back. If you haven’t read Part 1 of this excellent writing exercise, well you oughta! In Part 1 I briefly outlined the choice of hardware for the system. In Part 2 I’ll present the design aspects of the case. The Case I’m not 100% crazy, I do not have the skills, nor the tools to build a wooden case all from scratch. My initial idea was to find an old wooden box, from a…

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Building a custom ITX HTPC computer with wooden case mod

I’ve wanted to do this for quite some time now. I have been custom-building my own desktop computer for a long time now. It pretty much just comes down to picking the right components and placing them in a good ATX case. Building an ITX/HTPC computer is kind of the same, except everything is smaller and therefore a bit more challenging. Trying to do this in a custom case ramps up the difficulty level even…

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