Cram a media center PC into an old school sterero

The thing about computer parts is you can put them in pretty much anything these days. Well, if you know what you're doing. Otherwise you're liable to fry a few circuit boards here and there.

But one industrious hardware hacker decided that he liked the look of his old school stereo system enough to keep it around, even though he had a plans to use slightly more high tech components in his media center setup. So he crammed an Athlon XP 2500+ processor, 2 250 GB hard drives, 1GB of RAM, a DVD burner, and a dual tuner TV card in there. Oh yeah, and to top it off he fit a BenQ 15-inch monitor and some USB ports in the top.

The whole thing powers a video projector and a set of bookshelf speakers. The analog clock display on the front of the unit shows the current time, songs playing, and weather conditions.

[via Gizmodo]