Ikea ILEN HTPC

Step by Step of my 2 hour adventure of putting a HTPC into an Ikea ILEN side table. I have been wanting to do this for quite a long time. My wife hated having the old ugly tower case in our living room, and I really wanted to do something special for my HTPC. So when my mother law was heading up to Chicago to stop by Ikea I saw my chance. This is a Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz, 2gb ddr2, 500gb HD, ATI HD2600 w/DVI-HDMI adaptor, audio is DTS through digital coaxial. Right now I'm just running XP, while trying to pin down my favorite Media Center front end. I decided to go with no input devices. NO KEYBOARD, NO MOUSE. I use VNC via either my Nokia 770 tablet, or our laptop. The Nokia makes a great remote control using VNC. If anyone has any questions at all just let me know, this is my first instructable :). Oh! One thing that's not in the pictures is that I ended up having to add some 1/8 inch holes in the pattern of a fan intake above the processor so more air can be pulled in. Now let's get to the Pictures.

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[gcodori]

Does this have some sort of protection from little fingers or dust, or is it just mounted to the shelf? Did you have any custom mods for routing cords for the audio/video setup?

[ragnar667]

I'll put some new pictures up later(I'm at work). I did end up using our CNC router at work to make a piece of acrylic for the front of the table with to spots for 80mm fans. The processor i'm using right now was running a little hot and we have 2 cats and 2 dogs :). it's running quite a bit cooler with the fans in place, but I'm still going to switch it over a an Intel e6600C2D this weekend (they run about 20c cooler).