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My poor back is sore from that amp but we're nearly there (just have to source a BD ROM drive). The B550M thankfully supports multi channel audio so I've been successful in running a proper dedicated 5.1 setup although in the future, I hope to be able to run a Dolby Atmos configuration.

The Antec Fusion has been great once I gutted the old design and been running much cooler than expected under load without any need to reduce voltage on any component.

Tomorrow is going to be a long slog of cable management which I'm somewhat looking forward to.

So there's a lot to work on in terms of wiring up and cable management which is a job for tomorrow. Have to admit, being able to stack my PC like this has felt pretty damn awesome.

Antec Fusion HTPC

Ryzen 5700x3D

Powercolor 9070XT

Patriot Viper Elite II 32gb 3600mhz DDR4

Yamaha RX-V1200

Canon S35 fronts

Cambridge Audio S50 centre

Logitech Z5500 satellites rears

Well, the new chapter begins finally getting my hands on a proper amp to drive my audio! There's still a lot to do especially cable management for everything but what a transformation. Seriously think they need to bring back HTPC cases!

It's really come a long way that's for sure especially running modern hardware within that enclosure

Well, the new chapter begins finally getting my hands on a proper amp to drive my audio! There's still a lot to do especially cable management for everything but what a transformation. Seriously think they need to bring back HTPC cases! Still rocking the B550M, 5700x3D and a 9070XT. Just moving the PC down a shelf and amp up top has worked wonders.

Now the pain of cable management...

I've always been a sucker for the retro neon style/lighting so it was time to theme up the KS Pro to fit in. Getting the tones to reflect everything else was a bit of a challenge but I'm really pleased with the result!

So the easiest way is to take your start and endpoint colours that you're after. Make note of the hex values and simply ask an AI program to create a coloured gradient with your start and end value and specific for how many intervals you need, in my case it was 12 intervals.

Hope that helps!

So it was a real tough choice after having the ES wheel with the Formula rim but I knew I didn't want to stick with a round wheel at all. The choices were the KS, KS Pro and GS V2P. Second hand prices for the GS have been great but at that price point, I can spend a tiny bit more for illuminated rotary commanders and a mini screen so pretty much cemented the KS Pro.

Cannot wait to get this thing fired up and configured!

So following on from my weird and wonderful junkyard find, I wanted to put the little display to some use. After doing some digging, it turns out it will be possible to run it via my current PC. Here we are lol.

It's weird and quirky. Ideally it will just run animations while the main display for my PC is in use but then it activates as a telemetry display during SIM racing sessions. It serves a weird and wonderful purpose now!

They need a little clean but with a bit of tinkering, I should be able to have them running alongside my PC hopefully. They're coming up as Voltek cms244 CCTV monitoring displays. Should be a little fun side project