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I have a desktop again! (among other things)

stitchstitch
edited May 2011 in Hardware
So for a while I had my "desktop" (C2D E6550) hooked up to my TV with media center. I've built this little box with this board:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=4551

and this case

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=3429

(Bought around the same time I got the 2nd 1TB disk for WDL1)

It was a bit of a tight fit getting everything in there, along with a dvd drive (I'll probably upgrade to bluray once the price comes down), but it works great, streaming netflix, hulu and my local stations with a tv input card.

That all said, I also managed to reclaim my desktop. I bought two 2GB sticks of RAM, one of them for the atom box, one of them for this. ONce my RMA comes back I'll have a total of 4.5GB in here.

Also got a new keyboard (Natural Keyboard 4000) that i'm typing on now, but will probably bring to work Wednesday.

Sooooo, I'm broke for a while! Whoo!

Comments

  • DuffDuff
    Why did you go with an Atom + ION solution?

    Fusion would've been so much better for a HTPC, and cheaper:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 813154020&
  • stitchstitch
    I dunno, honestly I was pretty unaware of what AMD offered in terms of that shit. I've heard good things about the Ion's on IRC too, so that probably factored in.

    I also bought this at tiger's retail stores, so, I really was going with what they had in stock as well.
  • RNRN
    Hey stitch did you get everything set up yet? How is the performance of the Atom? I was thinking about doing the same thing.
  • Ka0sKa0s
    actually i was too -- my P4 desktop is a bit old and wasteful.
  • stitchstitch
    RN wrote:
    Hey stitch did you get everything set up yet? How is the performance of the Atom? I was thinking about doing the same thing.

    Provided you feed it enough RAM they're pretty capable boxes. Name me a benchmarking tool and I'll run it.
  • CoreDuoCoreDuo
    stitch wrote:
    RN wrote:
    Hey stitch did you get everything set up yet? How is the performance of the Atom? I was thinking about doing the same thing.

    Provided you feed it enough RAM they're pretty capable boxes. Name me a benchmarking tool and I'll run it.

    http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark06/download/

    Just for fun. :D
  • stitchstitch
    will do when im done with netflix
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