New PC - My Pointless write up

[Naylor2006]

This topic is for anyone interested really, doesnt really serve a purpose but comments welcome if you have any.

 

Sadly came the end to a watercooled case I built and maintained for a good 10 years a month or so ago, in a moment of misfortune my Dell monitor also died.

 

Here it was during functional days.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/currentsetup/sideleft.JPG

 

Built my own fan controller and kinda air tunnel to stop the rad from warming the case up and also ensuring it always got fresh air.

 

This is the only pic of the base bit I have, before I sealed the rad in place and cleaned it after a previous smaller setup so its not a great pic.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/currentsetup/radboxside640.jpg

 

You get the idea.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/currentsetup/radboxfront.JPG

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/currentsetup/pcfront_multi640.jpg

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/currentsetup/30-01-07_2020.jpg

 

Heres a pic from my first year of uni which was yonks ago so yeh the case shell remained the same but different hardware and watercooling has been in there over the years.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/year1%20uni%20setup/pcfront_box.JPG

 

So it came the time when I had to buy a new PC and ill be honest as far as time goes for maintaining the watercooling system, it was running out, my cars my main project now and I dont game anymore so I needed something to fill the 'fileserver/mediacentre' gap that was now in the house. I would recycle the PSU and HDD's and that was it.

 

Given that the thing acts as a TV in the bed room as well as a server for the PS3 media setup I run to the downstairs main TV and gaming wasnt in my mind I knew I could skimp a bit on graphics card for the moment. My main concern was noise, having had a near silent PC for years I needed to make sure I didnt end up with a whirling beast now that it would be running on fans, that would really get annoying as its on most of the time.

 

So heres what I went for.

 

Case: Anidees AI-6B Midi-Tower Case - Black - Noise Dampened

PSU: Recycled 6000W Silent Antec thingy

CPU: Intel QuadCore i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge)

Ram: ADATA 8GB of Dual Channel DDR3

Mobo: Asus P8H61-I

GFX: AMD/ATI ASUS Radeon HD5000 1024 Series Silent (Donated by a good friend)

HDD: Recycled Samsung 160gb SATA 2 (For Windows) and Hitachi 1TB SATA 2 (For data/media)

Drive: OMFG this mobo has no IDE, what an oversight, went PC World and spanked £70 on a Liteon Blu Ray drive......not happy was all they had.

Monitor: DGM IPS-2701WPH 27" LED Widescreen (Went a bit nuts there)

 

Didnt take long to whip together.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/postwatercooling/IMG_1294.JPG

 

Tiny mobo, dont need any expansion slots bar one for GFX so thought i'd go mini.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/postwatercooling/IMG_1295.JPG

 

Little corner desktop setup, looks more cramped than it is.

 

http://www.dontcallmeshirley.eclipse.co.uk/phils/phils_pics/pcpics/postwatercooling/IMG_1297.JPG

 

My pictures dont do the monitor or case justice, the case quality is amazing, Anidees are a new company too and this is their first case and simulary the DGM monitor is a relatively new product. Its actually an LG screen, the same ones they put in the top end Apple displays all whipped up inside a different shell and at Resolution: 2560 x 1440 is looks lovely, obviously Blu Rays look immense on it, unless I get a seriously top wak graphics card id be lucky to run modern games smoothly on it but it isnt for that so its not an issue.

 

As far as what it is for its damn good, streaming media to the ps3 works instantly and someone else can be using the pc whilst thats all going on, watch skygo on it and iplayer and all that stuff and makes it like having a lush TV in the bedroom.

 

Anyways so there you have it, bit zzzz but I felt like posting about it.

 

Oh yeh, the case is as quiet as my old setup and my temps are simular too, no issue there at all.

 

Thanks all

Edited September 16, 2012 by Naylor2006

[PeeWee]

Looks nice, liking the fact it's as quiet without all the fuss over the water cooling too.

Like that case.

Don't the i3 already have gfx, would that of not sufficed for a none gamer?

[sidrick]

Go SSD for at least the OS. It's the best mod I've ever done to a PC. Couldn't go back now.

[JC]

I thought most optical drives were SATA now?

 

As Sid says SSD all the way, I couldn't got back, I think a decent one is ~£60 now

 

I'd also consider a NAS drive for media, I bought a Dlink thing and the best investment i made for media

 

I need to get round to up grading my PC, new motherboard and gfx, ram and CPU on the cards

[shawdreamer]

DGM monitor

 

Case: Anidees AI-6B Midi-Tower Case - Black - Noise Dampened

PSU: Recycled 6000W Silent Antec thingy

CPU: Intel QuadCore i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge)

Ram: ADATA 8GB of Dual Channel DDR3

Mobo: Asus P8H61-I

GFX: AMD/ATI ASUS Radeon HD5000 1024 Series Silent (Donated by a good friend)

HDD: Recycled Samsung 160gb SATA 2 (For Windows) and Hitachi 1TB SATA 2 (For data/media)

Drive: OMFG this mobo has no IDE, what an oversight, went PC World and spanked £70 on a Liteon Blu Ray drive......not happy was all they had.

Monitor: DGM IPS-2701WPH 27" LED Widescreen (Went a bit nuts there)

 

huh??

 

Don't the i3 already have gfx, would that of not sufficed for a none gamer?

 

the what dont what to the what???

 

Go SSD for at least the OS

 

my head feels funny?!?!?!

 

I'd also consider a NAS drive for media, I bought a Dlink thing and the best investment i made for media

 

something definetly isnt right here, the more I read the worse my head feels

 

I thought most optical drives were SATA now?

 

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[PeeWee]

Yes Shaw probably a rad much for your minimal tech mind lol.

I love the Synology Diskstation for NAS, the features are awsome such as creating your own cloud, mail server, hosting etc all for £150 that takes two SATA drives (not included)

[shawdreamer]

Yes Shaw probably a rad much for your minimal tech mind lol.

I love the Synology Diskstation for NAS, the features are awsome such as creating your own cloud, mail server, hosting etc all for £150 that takes two SATA drives (not included)

 

If it go's Vroom Vroom I can usually fix it, If somethings dented I can usually straighten it, If somethings scratched I can usually smooth it......

 

If something go's buzzzzzzz, beep beep, whirrrrrrrrrrrr, beep, vizzzzzzzzzzzzz............. I can use a phone to call the local pc shop, jobs a good'un

[Naylor2006]

Looks nice, liking the fact it's as quiet without all the fuss over the water cooling too.

Like that case.

Don't the i3 already have gfx, would that of not sufficed for a none gamer?

 

The i5 does have its own graphics yes but shares ram then and the card was donated so why not, will be tempted by a juggernaut card at some point no doubt but yeh gaming not in the focus, got a console for that and I only play FIFA and GTA.

 

Glad you like the case, it's well nice man, check out more images online, it cable management is decent too. Watercooling looks the part too and was fun and giving it up makes me feel a bit old however at least I'm not having to buy a 5dr or sell my car due personal circumstances lol

 

Go SSD for at least the OS. It's the best mod I've ever done to a PC. Couldn't go back now.

 

I'm going to mate

 

Just it was an additional spend I didn't have at the time but I'm looking forward to how it will perform on one, and yeh only for OS, even 500gb SSD's are silly money, the normal SATA2 data transfer rate from the data drive is quick enough, the LAN would top out before the HDD would but that would take some doing.

 

I thought most optical drives were SATA now?

 

As Sid says SSD all the way, I couldn't got back, I think a decent one is ~£60 now

 

I'd also consider a NAS drive for media, I bought a Dlink thing and the best investment i made for media

 

I need to get round to up grading my PC, new motherboard and gfx, ram and CPU on the cards

 

Can't install ps3 media server on a NAS box and besides we need the pc side of things also so i don't really feel the need for one.

 

Exactly, was an oversight, just didn't think, PC WORLD got some of my money out of that mistake.

Edited September 16, 2012 by Naylor2006

[PeeWee]

Surely a PS3 can stream media from a network drive or cloud without software being installed on the server side?

Does a PS3 not have those options?

[Naylor2006]

Surely a PS3 can stream media from a network drive or cloud without software being installed on the server side?

Does a PS3 not have those options?

 

PS3 only understands a limited amount of file containers, mpeg2 being its favourite for hd so it natively won't play MKV's for example.

 

It's far more than that though, you install it, point it at your share and when you point the ps3 at it, it does all the rest of the work for you, no matter the file type it will use inbuild codecs to transcode or re-encode. MKV to MPEG2 is only a container change and this is the main use.

 

Still though, I need a PC, I need a NAS, the PC does both

[scottybo]

jc an optical drive is sumthing with an optical lazer...like a cd drive lol

 

an ssd is well... an ssd lol

[PeeWee]

jc an optical drive is sumthing with an optical lazer...like a cd drive lol

 

an ssd is well... an ssd lol

 

And your point exactly?

 

Im sure he is aware, not sure why your telling him this though?

[Naylor2006]

jc an optical drive is sumthing with an optical lazer...like a cd drive lol

 

an ssd is well... an ssd lol

 

Waaaat?