Hi people,

Can you folkes cast your eyes on the following.. this is a revision from the shuttle based system i was looking at. I have it in my newegg cart and i feeling like im going to do it.. Does this look ok... Im getting about to be buyers guilt.

Antec ARIA Aluminum MicroATX Cube Case with 300W Power Supply, Model "LS-968(ARIA)" -RETAIL
100$

NEC 8X Black Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive, Model ND-2510A BLK
$71.99

Seagate 200GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST3200822A, OEM
$121

Geil Value Series 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200
87$

ASUS "A7N8X-VM/400" nForce2 IGP Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU
82$

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ "Barton", 333MHz FSB, 512K Cache Processor
$95

Hauppauge PCI TV Tuner Card, Model "WinTV PVR 250" -RETAIL:
129$

total inc shipping to IL.. 704$

Thanks again
Will

eveything is normal.. i myself dont like the MicroATX formfactor.. they >>CAN<< but not always have heat issues.. and upgrading them is a pain. also it limits the number of drivers alot (again depending on case). And on top of all those things, the chipset are normaly comprimised (speed wise) to fit in that small of space. But having said all that.. if small is the call... two thumbs up!

actually microATX is not cube. they fit the cases like the coolermaster 620 that I have. They are somewhat limited from an expandability perspective cause they only have one atx and three pci, but generally you don't need more than that, although I will probably run out shortly, as I will have three tuner cards and nowhere for my wireless NIC, but I will probably just go with an external usb wirless NIC.

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The motherboard will fit the case ok though .. right?

yes it should fit as the case takes " up to microATX" , and if you'll notice in the pictures it has 4 slots for cards, which would match up with microATX, However I believe you will find that it is biger than you expected, as most of the cube cases ues miniITX or some other proprietary format for motherboards, which are a good bit smaller than microATX, and generally only have either two pci or one agp and one pci, whereas microATX has one AGP and three pci, and sometimes one of those funky cnr slots.

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