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Getting ready to test it out in the entertainment center
The black C137 would have been right at home (and boy do I need to dust!)
Now we move on to the most important test in the whole evaluation: “The Wife Living Room Appliance Aesthetic Test” ™. It passed TWLRAAT with flying colors (although to be fair my wife is very understanding of my "hobbies", witness this monstrosity in our living room) The C137 certainly looked the part of an entertainment center component and actually has a slightly smaller footprint than my Tivo unit.
A pic of the end result: Homebrew PVR goodness!
Summary: High quality, sleek, sexy mini-itx case that’ll be right at home in your entertainment center. If you go for the C137, get some rounded IDE cables, a quieter system fan, and slim line drives and you’ll be styling and profiling while taping “Futurama” and “Jeopardy”
Score: 8 out of 10
What I liked:
*Sleek, Sexy, fit right in with a Home Entertainment center look
*Compact, yet not impossibly hard to fit components in
*Well made, no sharp edges!
*Wife approved for living room use
What I didn’t like:
*The system fan is a little noisy for my taste
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