Compact enclosure for home theater PC?

[temporance]

Any recommendations?

My main critera is:

Compactness (don't need DVD/CD or floppy drives but want to have two PCI cards (DVT-T tuner and Xcard).

TIA

[vinkes]

Hi,

If you want real compactness, go for via epia mini-itx (http://www.viavpsd.com/index.jsp). It's smaller than flex-atx. But you'll have two problems:
1) the via eden processor isn't very strong, so you'll problems decoding you xvid & divx movies. Dvd's will run flawless.
2) it's so small, it has only one pci-slot.
I guess this rules via epia mini-itx out.

This only leaves one option: barebones.
There are tons of these things around, so you won't have any trouble finding them. Just search with google on 'barebone'. Shuttle and Soltek makes nice and affordable barebones.
Barebones usually have 2 pci slots and 1 agp slots.
If you want a really cool barebone, check msi's "mega pc".
MSI homepage (www.msi.com.tw)
Good luck!