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Hi,

I'm building my own HTPC because anything I've tried just sucks (boxee, popcorn c-200).

I've decided to select chassis first, and I will go with this one: http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.ph...84&area=en
I'd like to have a slim nice looking chassis (although price tag is little crazy). I don't need blu-ray disk or internal hd. In fact I'm going to make it diskless station with boot over iscsi.

Next I wanted support of 3D and hd sound, so I'm going with XFX Radeon HD 6450, low profile with passive cooler. It was recommended here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=94199

And now I'm stuck - I need to find MB and low-power processor that fits chassis. Could somebody recommend me combination of both? I really hate to look through endless mb+cpu combinations and usually order something incompatible.

Anyway, I was looking into different combinations of components for this chassis:

190$ Chasis itself
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.ph...84&area=en
SilverStone LC19B-R Aluminum Front Panel/1.0 mm SECC Body Micro ATX Media Center/HTPC Case - Retail (Black)

40$ Video card
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=66757
XFX Radeon HD 6450 625MHZ 1GB 1066MHZ GDDR3 Low Profile DVI VGA HDMI PCI-E Video Card

80$ CPU socket FM1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6819103951
AMD A6-3500 Llano 2.1GHz (2.4GHz Max Turbo) Socket FM1 65W Triple-Core Desktop APU with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 6530D AD3500OJGXBOX

85$ MB
ASUS F1A75-M LE FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813131769

25$ memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6820104155
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model KHX1333C9D3K2/4G

So I selected these components and then checked chassis description once again. They say MoDT motherboard is recommended (LGA775 and AM2 are also on the list).

Which socket should I use for this chassis?

--Roman