This is my new computer!! Check it out....
My system was overheating becasue of its 2,000 Gigabyte worth of hard drives.
Check out my design: HTPC PASSIVE HARD DRIVE CUSTOM COOLER
I have always waited for old technology and cheap prices. NOT this time [well
mostly as you will see]. I think it was 1998 I bought 2x
AMD k62 333 motherboard and CPU combos at FRYS for $79 each. I still use one for
a SOFTWARE Raid 5.... ugg! nothing is that slow. I finally stepped up a few years ago FRYS combo deal again but this time it was $59 for AMD XP 2500+ processor @ 1.83 GHz and ECS N2U400-A mother
board. I still remember because this is that computer. Its pretty ok and great for the price! (I had to buy an updated power supply).
This shall all change [again mostly ;) ]
with my home's central nexus machine.
E6600 Core Duo-driven, Gigbyte Motherboard, 750
Watt PS SATA Raid 5 means that this system will be no slouch, it will
be my redundant data store, iis multiple web server, streaming media server,
TIVO-functions, encoding from digital and analoug archives, and trun on my
sprinklers, and coffee machine, why the hell not?
I recently determined specifications, purchased the components,
built and configured the most powerful [by far] machine for the company I work
for: dual Xeon, 2u rack
chassis from spectrum really nice btw;
http://www.online-spectrum.com, (4 x 500) GB raid 10 on a
PCI-E host controller by
3ware, now I had the lust upon me and needed to upgrade my
apparatus (The Tick, anyone?) Damned if I build it for the man but not for myself!
It started with this innocent seeming brown box delivered to my doorstep,
containing: Intel Cor Duo E6600 cpu, 2 GB of Patriot PC2-6400 "Extreme
Performance" 800MHz, Gigabyte S-series GA-P35-DS3P (using the intel P35)
motherboard and the massive Therm
This cool transparent green-jello case was an old one used for an AT system, all
of my components fit there BUT you see the cpu cooler had basically a paper
thickness clearance when sliding it in the case, and the motherboard power
supply connectors were mostly obscured by the case's cd-dvd drive holding
structure. Some last minute grinding and hack sawing was in order...
However I would be severaly limited in the number of drives I could use, not to
mention that there would be no hope of overclocking with the cramped and fan
unfriendly case design. HAD TO GO!!! But first lets the thing up and
running...
Got
the sucker running, installed win2k adv server, then XP service pack 2 testing
Oh yeah got a new brown box to my doorstep... this one had the Cooler Master
CMmedia Series 280, time to tear my newly built machine apart completely and add
a few items while im in there [like 2x Noctua Austian made 120mm very quiet
fans, one intake one exhaust, and the stock CM 120mm fan (I swear that its
quieter and flows more...???) will be regulated to the side vent near the cpu
cooler (which has a 100mm fan for a total of 4 large fans)
TODAY, 6-25-2007
Got my ATI All in wonder VE 64 MB Tuner, Capture, AVI *AND* MPEG hardware
encoding.... $30
Haa ha yes it is PCI but the newest $500 pci-e ati wonder cards DONT offer
hardware MPEG, neither did the latest AGP... oh yeah well I dont even have AGP
so that and the $30 NEW price... well it makes sense to ME!
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