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Posted: February 29th 2012
Updated: August 27th 2012 - 4:09 PM
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System Specs: » Silverstone Granada GD05 Case » Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Socket 1156 Micro ATX » Intel Core i3-550 » Crucial Ballistix sport 4GB 2x2GB DDR3 1333 » Gigabyte Nvidia Gforce 240GT 1Gb Video Card » Crucial M4 64G Solid State SATA III Drive » Samsung Spinpoint F4 Green 2 TB Drive » Xigmatek Mono Fan Controller » SIIG Wireless touchpad keyboard » Rosewill Green Series 430W Power Supply
Performed Mods: Not much modding but Cable management, Fan controller and XBMC open source media center. Very quiet all you can here is the CPU fan. Bitstreaming audio, Dolby Digital, DTS with the Yamaha RX-V571 Receiver UPGRADE: 6670, Crucial Ballistix 2x2 1600
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5 Comments

#1
Jetster
2000 Posts
I made a video
Click here
Posted on Mar 5th 2012, 14:24 Edit | Reply
#2
Gtafan
Hey, Like your build I'm installing 2 80 mm fans above the motherboard in the back tonight and will take pics of final product.. what temperatures are you getting?
Posted on Mar 15th 2012, 14:07 Edit | Reply
#3
brandonwh64
Addicted to Bacon and StarCrunches!!!
Nice HTPC jester!
Posted on Mar 15th 2012, 14:17 Edit | Reply
#4
Jetster
2000 Posts
by: Gtafan
Hey, Like your build I'm installing 2 80 mm fans above the motherboard in the back tonight and will take pics of final product.. what temperatures are you getting?
At first I plugged the three fans straight into a molex and it was like a wind storm in there. Ran prime95 for hours and it never got over 52c. Put in a fan controller and turned the three fans down where i couldn't hear them. Im guessing about 600rpm and still 53c. So heat is not an issue

I also changed the skin in XBMC now so it looks totally diff and bought a new remote and wireless keyboard. I need to do a new video

Logitech Harmony 650 (915-000159) Universal Remote ----> turns everything to the right input to watch video or tv. Amazing

IOGEAR GKM571R Black USB RF Wireless Mini Keyboard...
Posted on Mar 15th 2012, 17:00 Edit | Reply
#5
hylander86
just done a very similar build using that case and mobo, i used the pentium g6950 and managed a 4.2ghz from 2.8ghz oc (stable) but had to leave out the cd drive to fit the heat sink :( with an addition of a gtx560ti its a good lil gamer! like what you done sweet build!
Posted on Mar 15th 2012, 18:18 Edit | Reply
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