Hiper Media Center HMC-2K53A

Very nice small form factor. Quiet (but not silent) Reasonably capable motherboard (not a heavy-duty gaming system).

Fan connector for mini-fan under HDD was too short to reach any fan connector on the MB. Had to buy a fan lead extension - not a biggie, but a shame. Screws for mini-fan under HDD are too long (going out the bottom of the case) and scratch up anthing...

At first I was very impressed with the design and styling of the case. It is slime and matches up perfectly with other Home Theatre components. Features such as the media controls on the front, VFD display and built in Wi-Fi are great.

The computer rarely stayed booted for longer than 30 minutes at a time due to heating issues. I was using a AMD 64 X2 4200+ CPU rated at 65w thermal output and purchased the recommended HIPER CPU Heat Sink rated up to 105w thermal output CPUs. I though...

Follow-up to review of 10/30/07. Finally managed to obtain Hiper-branded heatsink/fan and generic PCI riser. Installed Vista and system worked beautifully, with a few quirks (see below) ; Excellent output to my (aging) rear-projection TV at 1080i....

VFD quirky. Don't know if it's a Vista thing (maybe they work well in XP?) It gets behind -- When I'm playing music, I'll look 30 mins into a playlist and see that the VFD is showing a song that played 5 minutes earlier. No way to catch it up short of...

Follow-up to review of 10/30/07. Finally managed to obtain Hiper-branded heatsink/fan and generic PCI riser. Installed Vista and system worked beautifully, with a few quirks (see below).

VFD quirky. Don't know if it's a Vista thing (maybe they work well in XP?) It gets behind -- When I'm playing music, I'll look 30 mins into a playlist and see that the VFD is showing a song that played 5 minutes earlier. No way to catch it up short of...

Really Slim Design, Nice fit (black) in front of my tv, new egg has a good combo with this as well, front panel rocks, nice placement of I/o panel

Cheap front I/O panel, if it breaks I don't know where you can get it replaced. doesn't come with slim slot load dvd, no riser card, no heat sink

The size and look is awesome ; Vista ready ; The function buttons are great ; Includes memory card reader - sweet

The newegg version doesn't include the VFD or Wifi shown on the manufacturers site ; Newegg doesn't carry a compatible DVD/CD or riser card ; Built in hard drive fan doesn't connect to mother board

Great looking living-room PC will be right at home in an A/V rack. Haven't got it put together yet (see below), so can't rate actual performance ; It's very slim and slick-looking

Doesn't come with a PCI riser, so will not accept expansion cards as-is. I bought it for a Media Center system and need to put a tuner card in, but can't until I can get a riser (which NewEgg is currently out of) ; Even with a riser will only support a...