I intended on building a small inexpensive low power HTPC using spare parts and a few Black Friday purchases. I went with the Asus M4A88T-I Deluxe motherboard over the 1156 motherboards since I already had a couple of compatable processors I could use.
The first mistake I made was buying the Lian Li P6-Q06 case which alloweed me to use just about any CPU cooler on the market. Anyways to make a long story short I originally planned on using an AMD X4 620 and undervolting it since energy efficiency was the main point of the build.. I used the 620 for a few days and it worked great, but I got bored and replaced the 620 with a 1055T just to experiment for a little while. Then I started overclocking it and totally going off track ending up with a little red headed step child computer. My wife says it's ugly, messy and looks stupid, she doesn't want it in the den and made me put it in the basement. I like it though and that's all that matters, these are the specs
Asus m4A88T-I Deluxe
AMD X6 1055T, 3.6GHz-4.176GHz Turbo, 1.362v, 1.1v at idle with CnQ
Noctua NC12-UP with Scythe Ultra Kaze and slot fan controller
8GB Gskill DDR3 1376MHz 9-9-9-24 1.5v,
MSI LP 5670
Antec Earthwatts 380 Green edition
OCZ Agility 2 60GB SSD
Samsung 500GB 5400 RPM HDD
Sony BR reader
I know these pics suck... they were taken with an iphone
The first mistake I made was buying the Lian Li P6-Q06 case which alloweed me to use just about any CPU cooler on the market. Anyways to make a long story short I originally planned on using an AMD X4 620 and undervolting it since energy efficiency was the main point of the build.. I used the 620 for a few days and it worked great, but I got bored and replaced the 620 with a 1055T just to experiment for a little while. Then I started overclocking it and totally going off track ending up with a little red headed step child computer. My wife says it's ugly, messy and looks stupid, she doesn't want it in the den and made me put it in the basement. I like it though and that's all that matters, these are the specs
Asus m4A88T-I Deluxe
AMD X6 1055T, 3.6GHz-4.176GHz Turbo, 1.362v, 1.1v at idle with CnQ
Noctua NC12-UP with Scythe Ultra Kaze and slot fan controller
8GB Gskill DDR3 1376MHz 9-9-9-24 1.5v,
MSI LP 5670
Antec Earthwatts 380 Green edition
OCZ Agility 2 60GB SSD
Samsung 500GB 5400 RPM HDD
Sony BR reader
I know these pics suck... they were taken with an iphone
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