Three New Systems! – 1276 days old

[ImaginAsian]

Recently built three new systems in a span of a month...yep that aint a misprint

One was my main desktop machine. The second was an HTPC for the living room. The last was a windows home server. Alright lets just show the build list, that's all we care about anyways.


Main System

• Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.0GHz
  Cooler Master V8 CPU 120mm HSF
  Asus Rampage II Gene uATX Motherboard (Intel X58 - LGA 1366 Socket)
  6GB Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 RAM (6-7-6-18)
  Asus Radeon HD 5870 GPU (Discrete)
  Dell 3007-WFP 30" LCD Monitor (2560x1600)
  Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSD (Boot, Apps)
  Western Digital Raptor 150GB (Games)
  Western Digital 500GB (Encoding, Misc)
  Lite-On 4X Blu-Ray Reader
  Lite-On DVD Burner
  Creative X-Fi Fatality Extreme Gamer Sound Card
  Corsair HX620W PSU (System)
  Tagan EasyCon 530W PSU (Dedicated GPU)
  Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate

HTPC

• AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition @ 3.1GHz
  Scythe Big Shuriken SCBSK-1000 120mm HSF
  Asus M4A785TD-V EVO ATX Motherboard (AMD 785G - AM3 Socket)
  4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600 RAM (9-9-9-24)
  ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU (Onboard)
  60" Visio Plasma TV (1280x768)
  Hitachi Deskstar 250GB (Boot)
  Hitachi Deskstar 500GB (Misc)
  Lite-On 5X Blu-Ray Reader
  OCZ Modstream Pro 500W PSU
  EDIMAX EW-7228 Wireless 802.11n Adaptor
  Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate

Home Server

• AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor @ 3.0GHz, Stock HSF
  ECS Black Series A785GM-M uATX Motherboard (AMD 785G - AM3 Socket)
  2GB Crucial DDR3-1333 RAM
  ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU (Onboard)
  Samsung Spinpoint 400GB (Boot)
  2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (JBOD)
  5 Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB (JBOD)
  OCZ Modstream Pro 500W PSU
  Windows Home Server 32-bit with Power Pack 3

Media streams throughout the house via the Home Server. Total Storage size is 5.37TB.

Web surfing on 60" Screen never gets old.

Gaming on 2560x1600 is sick.

Fun times building all three systems and now poor for a long time

[Alakazam]

What can I say IA, your main desktop is totally rad, and I see you've got an Intel generation 1 SSD, any problems setting it up with Win7? And we'd like some pics if you got them,

[ImaginAsian]

Thanks Zammy, I noticed in your signature you built and i7 Rig too with sweet parts. The SSD is actually the G2 but I cant go back and edit the original post no mo . Can one of the mods do that por favor?

Win 7 runs like a champ on it right now. Just have to avoid the new firmware that featured the TRIM support but causing data loss.

All I can say is you aint felt SSD until you do SSD!!

[Alakazam]

G2 it is then Patrick, taken care of. I'm waiting for Black Friday to see if I could possibly snag one, there's nothing online yet but I'm hoping the Egg or MWave will have one, they've had some 80 gig ones in the last month for around $220 with a code but I'm always too late getting there, hehe.

[M.i.S. Nemesis]

Asian, why don't you just go play fuck yourself with all that!!
Just kidding, I Am so friggin jealous!!!

Recently built three new systems in a span of a month...yep that aint a misprint

One was my main desktop machine. The second was an HTPC for the living room. The last was a windows home server. Alright lets just show the build list, that's all we care about anyways.


Main System

• Intel Core i7-920 @ 4.0GHz
  Cooler Master V8 CPU 120mm HSF
  Asus Rampage II Gene uATX Motherboard (Intel X58 - LGA 1366 Socket)
  6GB Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 RAM (6-7-6-18)
  Asus Radeon HD 5870 GPU (Discrete)
  Dell 3007-WFP 30" LCD Monitor (2560x1600)
  Intel X25-M G2 80GB SSD (Boot, Apps)
  Western Digital Raptor 150GB (Games)
  Western Digital 500GB (Encoding, Misc)
  Lite-On 4X Blu-Ray Reader
  Lite-On DVD Burner
  Creative X-Fi Fatality Extreme Gamer Sound Card
  Corsair HX620W PSU (System)
  Tagan EasyCon 530W PSU (Dedicated GPU)
  Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate

HTPC

• AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition @ 3.1GHz
  Scythe Big Shuriken SCBSK-1000 120mm HSF
  Asus M4A785TD-V EVO ATX Motherboard (AMD 785G - AM3 Socket)
  4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600 RAM (9-9-9-24)
  ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU (Onboard)
  60" Visio Plasma TV (1280x768)
  Hitachi Deskstar 250GB (Boot)
  Hitachi Deskstar 500GB (Misc)
  Lite-On 5X Blu-Ray Reader
  OCZ Modstream Pro 500W PSU
  EDIMAX EW-7228 Wireless 802.11n Adaptor
  Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate

Home Server

• AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor @ 3.0GHz, Stock HSF
  ECS Black Series A785GM-M uATX Motherboard (AMD 785G - AM3 Socket)
  2GB Crucial DDR3-1333 RAM
  ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU (Onboard)
  Samsung Spinpoint 400GB (Boot)
  2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (JBOD)
  5 Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB (JBOD)
  OCZ Modstream Pro 500W PSU
  Windows Home Server 32-bit with Power Pack 3

Media streams throughout the house via the Home Server. Total Storage size is 5.37TB.

Web surfing on 60" Screen never gets old.

Gaming on 2560x1600 is sick.

Fun times building all three systems and now poor for a long time

[BitBender]

Hey, what are you using the home server as a hub for?

[ImaginAsian]

media library archive and streaming mostly. eventually want to host my homepage but i never get around to actually caring that much to do it

[Troy]

Win 7 runs like a champ on it right now. Just have to avoid the new firmware that featured the TRIM support but causing data loss.

I thought Trim in Win 7 was the cure for the data loss problem.

All nice systems IA.

[TJM4FUN]

I quess that trumps my abit kt7 raid system, my 900 mhz p3 server with one dead 10 gig drive, and a couple of 20 gig drives....

[ImaginAsian]

dang tom, you still rollin with that rig? that's gotta be ancient by now. as long as it works though.

troy, TRIM tells the SSD to explicity wipe out the deleted addresses so the drive doesn't have to do this when it needs to write to the space.

[ImaginAsian]

And we'd like some pics if you got them,

here you go zammy, pics of the desktop build. i have a side fan sucking heat from the Radeon 5870 and exhausting it out the back. the X58 northbridge chip runs hot so i have an Antec spot fan cooling it down by 6C. the CPU is cooled by the Cooler Master V8, which rocks.

in the closeup, you can see the Intel SSD mounted in the lowest 5.25 bay through 3.5 rails. the rail allows 2 2.5 disks to be installed and will be convenient when i get another 80GB SSD to do RAID 0 in the future.

notice how much smaller the uATX boards are. never buying a full size atx board again.

wiring could be cleaned up a little better but toooo lazy

[ImaginAsian]

here are pics of the home server. how many drives can you fit in one case ha! check out all them sata cables damn.

and front shot of desktop and home server rigs. i reused by lian-li pc-65 case for the home server. need to take those ghetto stickers off some day.

[labatts]

hey IA that's that spot cool fan you got there right? been thinking about getting that,how quite is it?

[ImaginAsian]

its pretty quiet, it has three speed settings. i have it on high and i can barely hear it.

[Troy]

Dayem that coolermaster heatsink is huge.
Its a wonder it doesn't break the mb.

[ImaginAsian]

it's lighter then it looks. the base is copper while the fins are aluminum and held securely by a retention bracket on the back. very well designed HSF.

[Alakazam]

That looks great IA, love the Lian cases, you've been pretty loyal to them over the years.