Hi
Thanks for your great input!
Arindelle: Great looking cases! I really liked the looks for the streacom cases.
Why fyll ATX? Good question, and I might be open to review my view on this.
First of all I want full ATX to be able to add cards, that is graphics card or sound card as needed in the future. I will for example like to be able to add a Lynx card if I think that is a good solution. I would like to be able to be able to change between different graphics cards when that is needed - for example to get 4K support in the future. And of course, TV cards if that is needed...
So, it's mostly about beeing flexible. From what I have seen so far I assume that the case, and power supply, will outlive the rest of the components I'm going to get now.
My HTPC is not going to have any hard drive, except one or two SSD's. It will be connected to a NAS server holding quite many TB of data. Scanning disks will be done from the HTPC, so I will need a blue-ray disk drive.
When it comes to fanless, I'm not obsessed by it - but I would really like to avoid it. I currently have a chassi with several big (120mm) fans running at low speed. It does not make a lot of noice, but it does noticable add to the background sound of the room. I would prefer to avoid that.
One case I'm looking at is this:
http://www.modushop.biz/site/index.php?route=product/product&path=70_126&product_id=269I have some amplifiser boxes from modushop, and those are really high quality. But you will have to do quite some bit of work to adjust it yourself as it is a quite "raw" box.
I will probably not go for this as there is to little information about it.
The FC12 looks interesting, but is for fan and does not have an optical driver slot. I think the last one is a deal breaker for that box.
Fractal design Node 605:
http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-605, but this does also seems to not have a optical driver slot. It says "1 slim-line ODD (only supported with mATX or smaller motherboards)
So, I think my case will be:
The Streacom FC10:
http://www.streacom.com/products/fc10-alpha-fanless-chassis/I'm a bit conserned about it beeing a bit low - but I hope it's good enough!
So, if we start from this and build it up:
Case: Streacom FC10
Powersupply: ? *
Blue-ray reader: ?
Main board: ?
Processor ?
Graphics card: ?
Sound card: ?
HD: SSD (already have)
Accessories: ?
* Found that the Streacom ZeroFlex 240 Netzeil will limit the motherboard to Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX when used in FC10 Alpha...
I guess that the best time to select the power supply is after selecting the other parts - especially main board and processor.