My HTPC project

Previously I had a Thecus N2520 NAS. I was satisfied with this because It had strong (Intel Atom) CPU, two 3.5" HDD bays and the most important: HDMI connector and XBMC support.

After half year it dead, and the shop could not replace it. I've got my money back, but I did not have NAS nor HTPC.

The NAS systems with HDMI port are very expenseve (except the N2520), so I decided to build own HTPC.

I would like to use one of my 3.5" HDD but wanted a really small PC case.
The A4 5000 AMD CPU looked very good option to this purpose, so I bought that with 4GB cheap DDR3 1600MHz RAM.
The biggest question was the PC case. The above mentioned CPU has 15W TDP, and I have a NAS ready Samsung HD154UI HDD which costs ~10W.
I needed a Mini ITX PC case with 3.5" HDD support and small PSU included.

Finally I decided to buy the LC-Power LV-1370BII 

I also bought a silent fan to keep the CPU and the HDD cool:

Assembling the HTPC hardware

Assembling the HTPC was a bit tricky, because first I could not find how to put a 3.5" HDD into LC-Power LB-1370BII PC case.

It was a bit tricky, because after I removed the bracket for the optical drive or 2.5" HDD/SSD I found the holes for the 3.5" HDD, but could not put it into the place. I found out, if I bend the small metal plates at the front of the case, I can put the HDD in and fix it with the 4 included screws.

I also planed to put an USB 3 Pen drive into the case for backuping importand files. Luckily I could loose two screws which fixed one USB3 port into the case's front panel and fix it to the metal bracket:

I planed to extend the PSU's 40mm fan with a 60mm fan to keep the case cool, but there wasn't enough space (less than 25mm) to fix the fan to the botom of the case, so I put it into the top:

Here is the result:

And my remote controller connected into the USB connector: