Having built most of the “case” itself now I just needed to add a small casing to hold the storage disks and I could start putting the PC parts together. It was surprisingly easy to do that as the mounts from the case were exactly the ones used before, so assembly was just putting the parts and connecting the cables themselves.

And after some small mishaps with the cables I connected it to the TV and lo and behold the machine was alive and sending coherent pixels to the screen!

Great! All I need now is to wrap it all up put it on the wall. Easy-peasy. I was planning to put all of the other electronics in that case as well so it was going to contain an Airport Router, a Raspberry Pi, an Apple TV and along with the 800W PC and the TV. It turned out the power draw was so much that it tripped the breaker. I had to pull in a power cable from another outlet just so this whole monstrosity had enough juice to operate, but in the end it all worked out and I’m now quite happy with the set up. Its reasonably quiet, convenient, quiet, aesthetically and best of all, I still can replace parts / upgrade since its essentially a rearranged PC case. In fact I’ve already done a small upgrade by adding an SSD.