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Designed for the living room and intimate personal environments, the LC17 is an HTPC enclosure with quiet appearance and excellent potential for low operational noise. The aluminum front panel is crafted to achieve a generous feeling of substance by minimizing gaps and holes. Everything is either covered or hidden to make sure the look is as clean as possible. Matching the quiet styling of the front panel is an interior that features the latest in HTPC enclosure design. From advanced six hard drive capacity and inverted PSU mounting to dedicated CPU cooling zone, the LC17 proves that there is no need to compromise when building an HTPC.
- Clean, understated styling for perfect integration.
- Next generation cooling performance.
- Outstanding potential for silent operation.
- Superior storage capacity.
- Rackmount ready.
SilverStone Aluminum Front Panel/0.8 mm SECC Body ATX Media Center/HTPC Case LC17B - Retail (Black) Reviews
| 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful  Best buy in budget HTPC case category, and pretty to boot!, This review is from: SilverStone Aluminum Front Panel/0.8 mm SECC Body ATX Media Center/HTPC Case LC17B - Retail (Black) (Personal Computers) Background you can skipLate last year my trusty HP Z565 HTPC passed away. It was burning up and lack of cooling finally made it croak. Since it wan no longer being manufactured I decided to salvage what parts I could and build a new one myself. I also found that the HP case was not well suited for a transplant so I needed a new housing. After much research, I settled for this one: affordable, good ratings across the web and enough room to build a serious HTPC. Pros: - The case was built with cooling in mind! Many of the cases, like my HP, overheat as HTPC room is tight. This one? COOOOOOL, linke a spring breeze. - QUIET. It's very quiet. The housing and fans are well picked and none of the turbines-kinking-in sound while I watch a movie. Do not underestimate that! Nothing worse than loud fans kicking in the middle of a movie. The 80MM fans runs quiet and I have not needed to add any other fans. I use this with my AMD 940 deneb and works great, idling at... Read more 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful  Perfect? No. Recommended? Yes., By Slugbait "Slugbait" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: SilverStone Aluminum Front Panel/0.8 mm SECC Body ATX Media Center/HTPC Case LC17B - Retail (Black) (Personal Computers) When buying a case at this price point, you usually don't get most of the things you desire, but this LC17 comes pretty close. And for an HTPC, the LC17 should certainly meet the requirements of most people. This case is a replacement for a Cooler Master ATC-600, which was better for certain things, but it only supported micro-ATX. The need for standard ATX is what drove my replacement, and I spent a considerable amount of time reading various reviews and asking for recommendations at Anand's, eventually deciding on the LC17.Viewing it from the front, it is both elegant and understated. There is no "bling", so appearance-wise, it looks more like a dedicated external amplifier than a computer case, so it looks great in my HT cabinet. The two LEDs are somewhat bright (just as they are with every other case), and I'll probably crack it open again to disconnect the HD LED to reduce distraction. Taping on the optical drive door cover is a cheap way out, but it's... Read more 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful Great HTPC Case, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: SilverStone Aluminum Front Panel/0.8 mm SECC Body ATX Media Center/HTPC Case LC17B - Retail (Black) (Personal Computers) This case looks great and is very sturdy. It's nice that the power supply mounts at the PCI Express slot end of the motherboard instead of the traditional ATX case placement near the "top" of the board. This is good for cooling if your power supply has a fan mounted on the bottom of it, because it will pull heat from the video card and send it out of the case. This case also provides mounting for 80mm fans in from of the hard drive bays which bring air in from the bottom of the front panel. (Be warned though if you have a very large video card the middle drive bay will most likely become useless knocking the drive capacity down to 3 HDDs). Great case overall!EDIT: The blue power and HDD lights on the front of the case are bright.. I used a very small piece of clear tape and a couple "dots" of black sharpie marker on the tape to darken them so they don't draw attention during dark movie viewing. |
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