Finally got it all built! It’s a sexy beast, unless you look inside, because my cable tidying skills suck.

It’s pretty damn good actually - it’s damn quiet, even with the stock AMD HSF, which feels really cheap, you can only hear it if there’s no sound. And considering I built it to watch movies on, that’s not a problem. I was going to get another HSF, but it looks like I won’t need that anymore.

Anyway, it plays 1080p stuff pretty well - I had a quick look at an IMAX documentary I have, and a few trailers, and it’s crystal clear and very smooth. I just have to sort out the HDMI cable and stuff (probably will need a switch thing for that, or I could make the DVD player use component, which I’ll probably do in the meantime). Anyway, so it plays 1080p stuff fine, but it failed quite badly on the 100Mbit bitrate 1080p QuickTime file I have, obviously. Even this PC can’t handle that very well unless nothing else is running. But anyway - it’s all setup and it owns.

The only problem so far is that the case is about 4mm too wide to fit in the IKEA TV bench thing that we have, so I’m going to have to sort that out somehow. Just typical, isn’t it?