Something which started as a ‘show off’ project, Ana-5000’s NES HTPC mod sure hit the PC modding community by storm.

The Finnish enthusiast picked up a broken NES at a thrift store, gutted it and filled it with an ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe motherboard with an Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor, 4GB or RAM and an NVIDIA Ion GPU. He also threw in a 120GB hard drive. The HTPC has support for HDMI and VGA, six USB ports, optical and RCA audio connections, 802.11b/g/n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, and Bluetooth. A 50mm fan chills the system, and the white paint job is sprayed on with spray-paint.

He also bought a pair of RetroPort adapters from Retrozone and connected it to his HTPC. NES games are made possible thanks to an emulator using the original pad as a mouse along with the appropriate driver software and a fold-away bluetooth keyboard. No comment on his choice of color, that’s white. He says that he painted the mod white as almost everything else in his house is also white. Fair enough, white does look good on it too.

Now, the only question that I’d like to ask is, why Atom and not AMD’s new APU platform?

SOURCE via Ana-5000 HTPC mod blog