mini PC

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I've taken on the task of turning my mates PC into a multimedia mini PC for his front room for the lowest price possible. He want to use his original PATA hard drive, monitor, 2 IDE DVD RW /Rom drives, memory, AG X8 graphics card and floppy drive.
Which is the best direction to go? if i buyt a barebone system with case, mobo and processor, what guarantee do i have that everything else will fit inside?

any links or advice would be much appreciated

 

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As far as making sure everything fits, you'll need to buy a motherboard that is the form factor made for the PC's case. Unless you are tossing in the kitchen sink, the various components you want to add should fit ok. I found a couple of links should you need them.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/mobo/form.htm

http://www.formfactors.org/

 

nice one cheers. anyone know a mini pc case that takes 2 optical drives?

 

Found this quickly on Savastore, Robb...

Mini-case

 

i was thinking more of a small form factor cube style case....

 

I'm doing the same thing later in the year, Aopen do some great cases LINK.

I think I'm going with the AOpen XC Cube AV EA65-II, it comes with some great features for multimedia.