Installation and temperature problems...

[petasis]

And my conclusions (which of course can be wrong, but these are what I experienced):

1. Don't use a 125W cpu and a high end chipset to build an HTPC. I already knew that, but I had board, cpu, memory and psu already available, as I bought them to fix a broken pc that I needed urgently, and whose fault was in the case switch . So, I had these lying around, and desided to put them in an HTPC case. But if you plan to build an HTPC from scratch, just use cooler components.
2. Don't use zipang to cool an 125W cpu. Prefer a tower design. Zipang is extremely silent, but its suitable for cpus with lower TDP than 125W.
3. Undervolting a processor, may help a lot in cooling an HTPC. Just chose a board that can undervolt the cpu, but still keep Qool & Quiet enabled.
4. Most of the htpc cases have a difficult to understand airflow, as the have large areas with many small holes. In some cases, putting a low noise fan inside the case can help...

[petasis]

After 3 days of continuous operation, the idle temperature is around 44 degrees Celsius. CoreTemp has recorded maximum temperature of 56 degrees, probably during bluray palyback...

[sumo]

Hi petasis,

sounds good on my side. 44°C in such a case is ok what i think.
So, have fun with your Media station.

Kind regards
Chris