I was been intending to build a new WHS based on WHS2011 and was collecting parts (2x 2TB WD AV drives & Intel 180 GB SSD), when I saw th $99 kit on Newegg (http://promotions.newegg.com/amd/14-1701/index.html?icid=249125) based on the ASRock AM1B-ITX. I couldn't resist and got the package. The attr...

It would have been nice to see power and performance comparison with Intel CPUs in the same price range, i.e. an Intel Celeron and a Pentium model from the Haswell generation. 5150/asrock am1h-itx dc in, ssd... idles at 16 watts. (the 5350 should idle at the same amount, but i only have the 5150.) ...

reminds me of the time I desoldered the capacitor that was blocking the cpu heatsink and put it on the other side of the MB LOL... yes it fixed the heat sink problem but i then had to mod the case to "fit" ...

"useful" stock passive video cards are rare... you will need to "roll" your own. the arctic accelero extreme will cool any graphics card... that is about as close to "passive" as you can get with powerful GPU's... another method is to use the water cooled cpu coolers with a Dwood bracket to cool the...

this cases looks great, 2 slot half height "graphics card" space ... meaning the zotac half height gtx 650 or gt640/630 will fit (yes the fan will have to be modded on that card... with a resistor or zalman 'fan-mate' to make it quiet) i mention this because i am using MYTHbuntu (mythtv) for recordi...