@mark19891989 I think you could fit one 3.6" HDD in this enclosure, 2 would be pushing it and not a lot of room for airflow. It's too bad you could not switch to 2.5" HDDs since they are so rugged, quiet, use less wattage, and don't throw a lot of heat. I understand you want to just transfer those ...

@mark19891989 I think you could fit one 3.6" HDD in this enclosure, 2 would be pushing it and not a lot of room for airflow. It's too bad you could not switch to 2.5" HDDs since they are so rugged, quiet, use less wattage, and don't throw a lot of heat. I understand you want to just transfer those ...

looking good :) , do you think you could fit 2 desktop hard drives in there? i already have a pico psu in my server/htpc, so i could probably make a mount for the hard drives at the top where the old psu used to be. im planing to move my fileserver/htpc to an atom+ion build soon. just need to save u...

does any one know any sites that sell that case, and ship to/are in the uk , i have googled around and cant find any

thanks mark

nice job, i have been looking for a mini itx case that could hold 2 full size hard drives and a pico psu , for my atom+ion server/htpc just need to find it on sale in the uk


thanks for posting, Mark

Looks nice

If it was my case i would want it about half the hight , wth 2 120mm fans on the front, my wood work skills suck, so it would be better to see if i could find a big project box.

i like the system, i plan to build somthing like this one day. i wana add a 2.5" hard drive to my server so the other ones can be span down all the time. right now i have 1 drive that is on 90% of the time but i would also consider adding abit more ram so you can go without swap . none of my machine...

how much noise does the EW 380 make at <100w load? Can't speak to 100W, but I have the EA-380 sitting on top of my microATX case, on the table top 3-feet from my ear. I'm looking at the fan spin and I can hear nothing . That's probably 40W, I'm sure if I got to 380W it'd sing, but I'll never get th...

i wana avoid the cheap ebay ac adapters because the pico psu has no 12v regulation and the ones from china can be abit dodgy Thanks for the replys :) found EW 380 on ebuyer for £30 :) edit: found it on www.microdirect.co.uk for £17!! but its out of stock right now my case has space for a atx psu. ...

im thinking of replacing the psu in my desktop. currently: CPU: intel E5200 @ stock speeds HSF: Fanless mini ninja RAM: 2*2gb ddr2 800 SSD: OCZ vertex 30gb GPU: Nvidia 7300gs PSU: some cheap 500w psu (which has quite a loud 120mm fan in it) build is idle at 60w, before i had the same motherboard +cp...

wow, that looks NICE!!

good job,

i got one of them from maplin for £12 also, dont know about the accuracy, but it seems to output what was expected when i have checked

hey, im giving running of off the intergraded gpu ago, gives me idle of 35w i cannot run my media player software because it requires glx (gona remove the nvidia drivers) Does the Silicon Image Orion ADD2 have glx when used with linux? if it does it will be perfect edit: i got moovida running on the...

mfeller: Only need 2 SATA drives or are looking at a PCI controller, I would check out the D945GSEJT. It is on the 945GSE chipset, which is what they put in netbooks, instead of the 945GC chipset which most Atom motherboards use (and which is a power hog in comparison). My D945GSEJT idles under 10W...

Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 Any reason you are not using the integrated graphics? That should be some easy savings right there. i have 2 screens running from this machine 1 is a 32" tv and the other is a 15" photo frame. also i need to have direct rendering enabled to run moovida (htpc software) i have swap...

my server currently idles at 50w . i wold like it bellow 30 idealy, but thats not realistic. my current specs: Asus P5KPL-AM iG31 E5200 @ stock * i did have it underclocked, but because my motherboard doesnt let me change the vcore i cant reduce consumption by more then about 5w 4gb ddr2 800 2 * Sam...

wow, that really cool, cant believe how much it is to get the power company to run a cable 4 miles! i would love the idea of living of the grid, i havnt seen/read about any people in the uk doing it it must be a good feeling having the your power free after the setup costs i dont have a clue how muc...

@ MtnHermit: would you be willing to post any information about you off grid setup? What do you want to know? Pretty standard setup, solar panels, big lead acid batteries, 4KW Trace inverter, 6KW generator that has 192 hours in 11-years, everything downstream of the inverter runs 120VAC. I wanted t...

@ MtnHermit: would you be willing to post any information about you off grid setup?

thanks mark.

wow that looks very nice !

im still on matx right now, but my next build will be a mini-itx, probably an ssd, and hopefully completly passive

will torrenting to the ssd have any negative effects? as it will cause alot of writes, especialy when your going to be downloading to it then moving files off of it?

api123 wrote:any suggustions on where to get cheap picoPSU

I got mine frome here http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12383

you will need a power block which they also sell.

i just loked at an old agp card i had nvidia 6200, the heat sink from that fited on my current card, so everything is cool

does it have to be completly fanless, a slow spining 120mm fan, at say 500rpm will be silent. and make a huge difference in temperatures.

if you want to hide the cd drive a stealth panel can be made easily, just a piece of wood t he right size stuck to the front of the cd drive, with enough wiggle so that if you press down on it the button will get pressed making the drive open (bringing the wood panel forward with it). you mite have ...

for an i7 alone your going to need more then a 120mm rad. No 1x 120mm is enuff. I am atm building my setup inside a Coolermaster Elit 340. I am testing if i am only gona run 1x120mm rad or 1x240mm rad och both. 1x120mm rad with 2x120mm Nexus@7v in puss-pull config and i am running the CPU @4.2Ghz i...

How do you make the graphs?

thanks markp1989

Thats looks really cool!!

spookmineer wrote:Maybe most TV's don't have them anymore, but my TV has an off switch
It goes for all appliances: if not in use, I switch them off.

lol it doesnt have an off switch, if i press the power button on the front it goes into standby.

My VISTRON 32" (not sure of the model number) makes a anoying high pitched noise that is keeping me away at night I dont know if the noise has always been there, but i started noticing it a few days ago, and now its anoying me. the noise is only there when the tv is in standby, if its on , with soun...