Build Your Own Home Theatre PC Part 1

The first step in the process of building this system would be to select a suitable HTPC enclosure. Case selection is rather subjective and just about everyone will give you an opinion on the type of enclosure to use. Budget consumers can minimize costs by using anything from a standard desktop case, mid-tower or server case. For those individuals who consider themselves HTPC purists, there are HTPC style enclosures that have been designed to resemble the look and feel of stereo or home theatre equipment. I spent the few weeks reading various reviews and frequenting excellent resources such as the AVS Forums and HTPC News. For this particular project, I turned to the good folks at SilverStone Technology who kindly provided their latest HTPC style case; the Lascala SST-LC03. The Lascala SST-LC03 HTPC Case arrived in a standard double-walled corrugated box with a decorative SilverStone logo located on all sides. The packaging inside the box was adequate with the case sealed in protected plastic with two pieces of polystyrene located on the left and right hand sides.