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Limp Gawd
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^ actually with 15 total USBs, I'd need (using that math) about 37.5 watts. Although I may have stuff plugged into almost all of them at one time or another, it'll be rare that all would actually draw power at once, and even if they did, that 750 would easily power them, considering some of them would be powered by the monitor's buit-in hub. Card reader is a Roswill model that reads a lot of cards including my SD HC cards. Optical is ASUS's fastest drive for DVD burning and light scribe. Other 2 optical drives are old DVD ROMs.
I finally took some pictures with a cheap camera (S5 IS) and resized them to 800x600.
This is a work in progress, as I haven't gotten everything back together yet, but here's the workstation in general. Being cheap, I built the furniture, except the spray painted table (old incredibly strong steel model from the 60's). The (left) secondary monitor is an old 17" Dell CRT running at 1600x1200 - good for side projects, Media Center TV to watch on the side while working, and games where input lag hurts too much for the bigger screen. The right is Samsung SyncMaster 275T+. There is a remote sensor for the TV card's remote behind the air-filtered, vented bay covers - the metal cover doesn't seem to interfere with the signal even at angles and distances.
The interior was very easy to work with considering the giant size of the CM Stacker tower. RAM was 16GB G.Skill DDR2 800. TV card is Hauppauge 1800. Video card is EVGA's GTX 260, CPU is intel 2.8 GHz quad core. HDD is Seagate's fastest SATA 1TB model, in addition to some old PATA hard drives adding up to 370 more gigs. Note the casters that came with the case. If you don't have them, buy some at the hardware store and install; they're priceless for handiness. For those of you that like to keep things cool, in addition to the 5 fans in the box, I have found a new, effective, and relatively inexpensive way to keep the computer cooler - the same way I keep cool after a hard week of work.
The case has a removable "other side" which allows me to hide some wiring, but only after drilling a pair of holes with a hole saw - one on the back, and one on the inside panel (hidden by the outside second layer panel). I'm in a bit of a problem as the edges of the drilled holes are sharp, even after filing and sanding, so I need some kind of rubber grommet or something to protect the wires. For now, it's that ugly-ass piece of paper that you can see.
The rear pic shows the same in addition to all the rear connections. The 120mm fans are very quiet, almost 100% silent. Although there are tons of wires, the single optical sound wire cut the total number down an enormous amount (as opposed to loads of 1.8" jack wires). The loudest part of this machine is the video card, and even it's pretty quiet when not under an extreme load. The eSATA ports will be handy for my external HDD which is file backup that stays in a fireproof file cabinet at work when not in use.
OS is Vista Home Premium 64, and I'm considering adding XP x64 as a duel boot option. Overall, it's a decent-to-good box for now, but with loads of potential for anything that I want/need down the road. Thanks for the help in choosing and assembling all this stuff.
I finally took some pictures with a cheap camera (S5 IS) and resized them to 800x600.
This is a work in progress, as I haven't gotten everything back together yet, but here's the workstation in general. Being cheap, I built the furniture, except the spray painted table (old incredibly strong steel model from the 60's). The (left) secondary monitor is an old 17" Dell CRT running at 1600x1200 - good for side projects, Media Center TV to watch on the side while working, and games where input lag hurts too much for the bigger screen. The right is Samsung SyncMaster 275T+. There is a remote sensor for the TV card's remote behind the air-filtered, vented bay covers - the metal cover doesn't seem to interfere with the signal even at angles and distances.
The interior was very easy to work with considering the giant size of the CM Stacker tower. RAM was 16GB G.Skill DDR2 800. TV card is Hauppauge 1800. Video card is EVGA's GTX 260, CPU is intel 2.8 GHz quad core. HDD is Seagate's fastest SATA 1TB model, in addition to some old PATA hard drives adding up to 370 more gigs. Note the casters that came with the case. If you don't have them, buy some at the hardware store and install; they're priceless for handiness. For those of you that like to keep things cool, in addition to the 5 fans in the box, I have found a new, effective, and relatively inexpensive way to keep the computer cooler - the same way I keep cool after a hard week of work.
The case has a removable "other side" which allows me to hide some wiring, but only after drilling a pair of holes with a hole saw - one on the back, and one on the inside panel (hidden by the outside second layer panel). I'm in a bit of a problem as the edges of the drilled holes are sharp, even after filing and sanding, so I need some kind of rubber grommet or something to protect the wires. For now, it's that ugly-ass piece of paper that you can see.
The rear pic shows the same in addition to all the rear connections. The 120mm fans are very quiet, almost 100% silent. Although there are tons of wires, the single optical sound wire cut the total number down an enormous amount (as opposed to loads of 1.8" jack wires). The loudest part of this machine is the video card, and even it's pretty quiet when not under an extreme load. The eSATA ports will be handy for my external HDD which is file backup that stays in a fireproof file cabinet at work when not in use.
OS is Vista Home Premium 64, and I'm considering adding XP x64 as a duel boot option. Overall, it's a decent-to-good box for now, but with loads of potential for anything that I want/need down the road. Thanks for the help in choosing and assembling all this stuff.