This thing is pulling triple-duty as an HTPC, file server, and torrent box.
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I have a hard drive in the lower 3.5" external bay. It's impossible to see, but in the lower 5.25" bay, I have a 3.5" hard drive instead. It's not mounted in any adapter, it's just screwed in on one side only. I has five hard drives and an optical drive, which is pretty impressive for the size, but I'm unhappy with the placement of the last hard drive.
I have no idea what to do with the fifth hard drive that's not screwed in. Currently it's just hanging out in front of the PSU. It's kind of resting on the motherboard a lttle, kind of on the side of the case. I don't like it where it is, but for now it's the only place to put it.
I am thinking about ditching the optical drive, but I like having it for now. It's a nice convenience to have an optical drive in an HTPC.
The system bus speed is bumped up from 200 to 230. I'm not sure exactly what that bumps the CPU clock speed. 2415MHz maybe? I guess that means the RAM is running at 925MHz. I'm not exactly sure how to read this information in Ubuntu...it's not as simple as running CPU-Z.
The RAM is a mix and match from two older systems. It has worked fine so far, and after 18 hours of extended memory testing.
Complete specs:
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G based motherboard.
Athlon X2 4000+, stock cooler
2x1GB Corsair 800MHz CL4
2x1GB Corsair 800MHz CL5
1x Maxtor 200GB IDE drive (operating system drive)
4x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB (two old revision, two new revision)
Hauppauge HVR-1600
Stock Ultra V-Series 400W
Running Ubuntu Server 8.04 64-Bit.
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I have a hard drive in the lower 3.5" external bay. It's impossible to see, but in the lower 5.25" bay, I have a 3.5" hard drive instead. It's not mounted in any adapter, it's just screwed in on one side only. I has five hard drives and an optical drive, which is pretty impressive for the size, but I'm unhappy with the placement of the last hard drive.
I have no idea what to do with the fifth hard drive that's not screwed in. Currently it's just hanging out in front of the PSU. It's kind of resting on the motherboard a lttle, kind of on the side of the case. I don't like it where it is, but for now it's the only place to put it.
I am thinking about ditching the optical drive, but I like having it for now. It's a nice convenience to have an optical drive in an HTPC.
The system bus speed is bumped up from 200 to 230. I'm not sure exactly what that bumps the CPU clock speed. 2415MHz maybe? I guess that means the RAM is running at 925MHz. I'm not exactly sure how to read this information in Ubuntu...it's not as simple as running CPU-Z.
The RAM is a mix and match from two older systems. It has worked fine so far, and after 18 hours of extended memory testing.
Complete specs:
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H 780G based motherboard.
Athlon X2 4000+, stock cooler
2x1GB Corsair 800MHz CL4
2x1GB Corsair 800MHz CL5
1x Maxtor 200GB IDE drive (operating system drive)
4x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB (two old revision, two new revision)
Hauppauge HVR-1600
Stock Ultra V-Series 400W
Running Ubuntu Server 8.04 64-Bit.