BrooksyX Mini-Itx Rig

BrooksyX · May 9, 2009

I'm trying to think of a better way to mount the HDD. Anyone got any ideas?

alucasa · May 9, 2009

How about using a 2.5 inch laptop drive and put it in the 3.5 inch slot ?

BrooksyX · May 9, 2009

alucasa said:
How about using a 2.5 inch laptop drive and put it in the 3.5 inch slot ?

I could but I don't have any notebook HDDs laying around right now. Just the 250gb 3.5" HDD. It fits just fine in the 3.5" bay. Its just kinda big though.

Geofrancis · May 10, 2009

what about putting the drive on its side next to the 120mm fan or on the other side?

BrooksyX · May 10, 2009

I was thinking something like that. I got a few other ideas. Ill have to share them later though as I am about to head out for the night to hang out with a friend.

Geofrancis · May 10, 2009

You could always get a esata external caddy.

BrooksyX · May 11, 2009

Geofrancis said:
You could always get a esata external caddy.

I could but wheres the fun in that

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I also want everything housed internally in the case. I think the HDD will be just fine in the external 3.5" bay. I just might have to get a right angle sata cable.

Mussels · May 11, 2009

BrooksyX said:
I could but wheres the fun in that .

I also want everything housed internally in the case. I think the HDD will be just fine in the external 3.5" bay. I just might have to get a right angle sata cable.

my suggestion would be a single SSD (for silence) running the OS, and everything else external/networked

BrooksyX · May 11, 2009

Mussels said:
my suggestion would be a single SSD (for silence) running the OS, and everything else external/networked

That would be nice. Got any extra SSDs that you could send my way for free

ha

Wish I could afford and SSD. Even a 30gb one would suffice.

Mussels · May 11, 2009

BrooksyX said:
That would be nice. Got any extra SSDs that you could send my way for free ha

Wish I could afford and SSD. Even a 30gb one would suffice.

naw, i got nada.

I'm waiting to build my ITX, til SSD's are cheaper and better boards are out. i wanna make a little ITX monster that can attach to the VESA mounts on the back of my screen, but still be LAN worthy

BrooksyX · May 11, 2009

Mussels said:
naw, i got nada.

I'm waiting to build my ITX, til SSD's are cheaper and better boards are out. i wanna make a little ITX monster that can attach to the VESA mounts on the back of my screen, but still be LAN worthy

That would be sweet. I was interested in getting a case that was vesa mount compatible but it was a little too much $$$ and a little too small.

BrooksyX · May 12, 2009

Should be getting my cpu tomorrow. I can't wait! Hopefully UPS will bring it earlier in the day because I have to work at night. I picked up someone's shift so I could get some extra hours.

Scrizz · May 12, 2009

BrooksyX · May 12, 2009

Alright got the e5200 today. Played with it a little bit but I don't have tons of time because I need to do some homework before work. Here are some pics:

DanishDevil · May 12, 2009

Looks sweet. Screw Vista, though. Put W7 RC1 on it!

I like the clean wall-mounting.

BrooksyX · May 12, 2009

DanishDevil said:
Looks sweet. Screw Vista, though. Put W7 RC1 on it!

I like the clean wall-mounting.

Thanks! I will put 7 on it. I still need to download the newest RC of it though. No time today. Ill get to it tomorrow night/thursday.

I like the wall mounting too. If I wasn't moving out in 3 months I would drill a hole in the wall to hide the cables.

Geofrancis · May 13, 2009

im thinking of a similar setup for my server i found some cheap itx boards with 2 pci-e slots a 16x one and a 1x with the same gforce 7100 chipset. and those 45nm core 2's use next to no power and offer atleast 2x the speed of my atom dualcore. it will also let me put a small nvidea graphics card like a 8400gs and use cuda apps and put a decent pci-e sata raid controller.

Geofrancis · May 16, 2009

how was the temp on the cpu with your cooling setup?

System Name	Main / Home Media Serever
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.75ghz / AMD AM3 5200+ x2
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance / Biostar 790GX
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight / XIGMATEK Apache
Memory	12gb of G.Skill Value Series DDR3 / 4x 1gb DDR2
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon 6870 1gb / Asus Radeon 5450 512mb
Storage	2x Samsung 830 64gb SSD Raid 0 & 750gb WD Blue HDD / OCZ Vertex II 80GB & 10TB of HDD Space
Display(s)	2x Acer 24" LED / Samsung 50" LED
Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 / Ubuntu 14.04

System Name	Main / Home Media Serever
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.75ghz / AMD AM3 5200+ x2
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance / Biostar 790GX
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight / XIGMATEK Apache
Memory	12gb of G.Skill Value Series DDR3 / 4x 1gb DDR2
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon 6870 1gb / Asus Radeon 5450 512mb
Storage	2x Samsung 830 64gb SSD Raid 0 & 750gb WD Blue HDD / OCZ Vertex II 80GB & 10TB of HDD Space
Display(s)	2x Acer 24" LED / Samsung 50" LED
Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 / Ubuntu 14.04

System Name	Machine XV
Processor	Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard	Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling	120mm heatsink
Memory	64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s)	RX 480 4Gb
Storage	1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s)	19" + 23" + 17"
Case	ATX
Audio Device(s)	XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply	800W
Software	Windows 10

System Name	Main / Home Media Serever
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.75ghz / AMD AM3 5200+ x2
Motherboard	ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance / Biostar 790GX
Cooling	Xigmatek Dark Knight / XIGMATEK Apache
Memory	12gb of G.Skill Value Series DDR3 / 4x 1gb DDR2
Video Card(s)	XFX Radeon 6870 1gb / Asus Radeon 5450 512mb
Storage	2x Samsung 830 64gb SSD Raid 0 & 750gb WD Blue HDD / OCZ Vertex II 80GB & 10TB of HDD Space
Display(s)	2x Acer 24" LED / Samsung 50" LED
Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
Software	Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 / Ubuntu 14.04

System Name	Machine XV
Processor	Dual Xeon E5 2670 V3 Turbo unlocked
Motherboard	Kllisre X99 Dual
Cooling	120mm heatsink
Memory	64gb DDR4 ECC
Video Card(s)	RX 480 4Gb
Storage	1Tb NVME SSD
Display(s)	19" + 23" + 17"
Case	ATX
Audio Device(s)	XFi xtreme USB
Power Supply	800W
Software	Windows 10

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Processor	Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core)
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Cooling	Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate
Memory	2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V)
Video Card(s)	Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W))
Storage	2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2
Display(s)	Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) \| Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) \| Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144)
Case	Fractal Design R6
Audio Device(s)	Logitech G560 \| Corsair Void pro RGB \|Blue Yeti mic
Power Supply	Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY)
Mouse	Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps)
VR HMD	Oculus Rift S + Quest 2
Software	Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware!
Benchmark Scores	Nyooom.

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Processor	Intel 13700k
Motherboard	Gigabyte z790 UD AC
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	64GB GSKILL DDR5
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC
Storage	960GB Optane 905P U.2 SSD + 4TB PCIe4 U.2 SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DW 175Hz QD-OLED + Nixeus 27" IPS 1440p 144Hz
Case	Fractal Design Torrent
Audio Device(s)	MOTU M4 - JBL 305P MKII w/2x JL Audio 10 Sealed --- X-Fi Titanium HD - Presonus Eris E5 - JBL 4412
Power Supply	Silverstone 1000W
Mouse	Roccat Kain 122 AIMO
Keyboard	KBD67 Lite / Mammoth75
VR HMD	Reverb G2 V2
Software	Win 11 Pro

System Name	Big Devil
Processor	Intel Core i5-2500K
Motherboard	ECS P67H2-A2
Cooling	XSPC Rasa \| Black Ice GT Stealth 240 \| XSPC X2O 750 \| 2x ACF12PWM \| PrimoChill White 7/16"
Memory	2x4GB Corsair Vengeance LP Arctic White 1600MHz CL9
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX 780 ACX SC
Storage	Intel 520 Series 180GB + WD 1TB Blue
Display(s)	HP ZR30W 30" 2650x1600 IPS
Case	Corsair 600T SE
Audio Device(s)	Xonar Essence STX \| Sennheisser PC350 "Hero" Modded \| Corsair SP2500
Power Supply	ABS SL 1050W (Enermax Revolution Rebadge)
Software	Windows 8.1 x64 Pro w/ Media Center
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