[mythtvnz] Silverstone LC17

[Greg Brackley]

> Has anyone else done a build with one of these? I just transferred my
> mythbox to one, and found it EXTREMELY cramped to work in. It still looks
> more capacious than other 'media' cases, though, and it looks VERY good
> alongside the stereo, DVD player etc.
>
> Recommended, but you dont want to work on it more than once.

I recently built a new frontend with one of these boxes (LC17S), with an old 
nForce4/AMD motherboard. The build quality of the sheet metal is ok, but not 
excellent. The front panel looks good enough (passed WAF test). I didn't 
want a box with a big volume knob, as I plan to use an receiver. I found it 
roomy as I didn't put a hard disk in it. I'm using iSCSI for the root 
filesystem, and an internal USB flash drive to boot from (I was doing PXE 
boot but that didn't seem to buy me a lot [I didn't figure out how to do 
chain loading of the kernel from the iSCSI volume]). I am still having 
problems getting the digital sound working...

As a cheap (not all aluminum) box, I'd recommend one of these.