Back in part 1 of this build, I ran in to some overheating concerns with the northbridge. So I decided to try a passive tower cooler for both the north and south bridges.

So here's the new parts that are ready to go... from left to right, they are:

• Thermalright HR-09S (type 3) VRM cooler... which I didn't end up using (more on that later);
• Thermalright HR-05 IFX chipset cooler - this is the straight-up version, which I'll use for the southbridge;
• Thermalright HR-05 SLI IFX chipset cooler - the "bent" version for the northbridge.

As a mentioned back in this post, I am building a completely solid-state, dual-core, 64-bit media PC. I won't go into any of th "planning" details here (refer back to the original post for that). However, this post will show some of the progress so far (using lots of pics), and give some idea of the project's feasibility:)

This is a project that I've been plotting for quite some time now, and I'm finally about the have a go! The idea is simple, I want to build a media center PC, but with some perhaps-slightly-unusual requirements - purely to suit my own preferences.

The PC-C37 Muse is a multi-media HTPC chassis from Lian Li... one that I've had my eye on for a little while now. You see, I've been planning on building a new LinuxMCE Media Director for a little while now (hence my 35 watt dual-core Athlon 64 blog plost back in May!), but have not found many appropriate PC chassis.