the intake fans have sort of a fan sleeve that clips to the case. they are sorta tricky to take out unless you know the trick, you have to bend the big piece of plastic a bit.

i broke one on my P180 a long time ago learn from my mistakes.

unsupported drives on your areca card ... don't take my word for it but those drives might fall out of the raid5 array

Looks very nice. If you're looking for PSU recommendations, I'd suggest Antec Earthwatts supplies, or Seasonic Supplies. Antec 380w routinely runs $40 in the US and shouldn't have any problems powering said system. If you're sticking with air cooling for the video card I find that most dual slot sto...

I've built an SB system with a 60W PSU. Picos are very good but I used the case's fanless PSU to save money. I also did not go with a DH61AG for the same reason. 80+ 300W PSUs are a lot less efficient than a pico because you don't get 80+ at low load! Only platinum-rated mainstream PSUs compete wit...

You need to get it booted into an OS with power saving features enabled, and look at your killawatt. You might be pleasantly suprised.

If the computer will boot up without the card, but not with the card, it's absolutely 100% the power supply. No-name 350w supplies may not provide the necessary 12v amperage to run the card. Try to find that 12v amperage and let us know what it is, may be listed on the PSU. I wouldn't recommend supp...

I would speculate that the pico-PSU nets you 10%+ more efficiency, but I think that you should take a look at some of the smaller, fairly inexpensive 80+ bronze supplies you can get, for example an Antec EA-380D or a Seasonic 300w Both can be had for less than $40, where as a pico-psu generally cost...

the difference between 5400 and 5900 RPM drives is probably minimal. 7200RPM [and faster] will net you better access times. Hitachi makes by far the cheapest 7200RPM drives. I'm using 5 7200RPM 7K2000 [the 32mb cache version] drives, I am pretty happy with the noise. I'd speculate western digital bl...

Hello. I'm looking for some opinions on how I'm upgrading from my current storage system, in particular any pros and cons for operating systems. I'm familiar with all manner of operating systems, including Ubuntu Server, Server 2008/R2 I am also comfortable with virtualization platforms, in particul...

Thanks for the informative review! It's great that lower wattage desktop chips are becoming more common-place. I have great love for my 2.5GHZ AMD 45w chip [X2 4850] as well as my 1.9Ghz BE-2300. I know that there might not be any microcenters wherever the review takes place, but even now you can pi...

You're using the stock AMD phenom cooler.

See if you have the 4 pin connector from the cpu fan in the correct slot. Check if the motherboard has the Q-FAN feature on, as previous poster stated.

most macs can house 12.5mm drives, i have one in my macbook pro @ 1TB.

most 2.5" drives don't produce a lot of vibration, in particular the slower spinning drives, though you lose a bit of performance.

I imagine since this is a laptop chip, a standard desktop size cooler wouldn't have much issue dealing with 44w of TDP.

I would agree, but unless he's moving to 10g, which seems unlikely since he said he's rolling a mac mini, you can easily saturate gigabit [~110-115MB/s after overhead] with iSCSI traffic with two disks striped.

Sanity wise everything looks to be in order. If anything you should consider your strategy here. If you're so concerned about the data, are you taking into account a backup routine. ZFS parity is *not* a backup. RAID is about performance and uptime. I know ZFS isn't RAID and I would agree that some ...

Might delete your other post in the gallery, this is where that thread belongs. Looks solid. Antec Solo is cheaper. Both cases are fairly quiet with the dampening. The tri-cools that come with both cases are considered mediocre among this very picky crowd here, but they are probably good enough if y...

I bought a Scythe Big Shuriken for one of these without really looking at the motherboard closely.

Of course it covered up the PCI-E slot quite well, had to use the Intel stock cooler.

Thanks for the quick reply! Lets hope it gets there in one piece.

Hi. This is probably a very simple question. I am shipping a computer for work to Germany from the united states. I believe I have purchased the correct power cable [CEE7] for this computer. The power supply says it will autoswitch to whatever power is available. It's a Corsair HX750. It's also powe...

Yes, it supports all 95w chips. but not 125w phenom's. Unless you turn off one core. Then it complains but it seems to work.

Monkeh16 wrote:Looks like four cheap SATA cables, some sleeving, and heatshrink..

actually its a SAS expander cable...

Yes, I liked how easy it was to put the hard drives in; screw less design, you see. However once I turned on all 4 1TB blacks, the vibration dampening was inferior to the white-rubber grommets on the P180. It felt like the HDD's were flush against the plastic base of the supplied trays, so vibration...

6 drives, it's packed pretty full:

I've "upgraded" my gaming computer from a lightly modified Antec P180 [some behind the tray cabling] to a Corsair 600t... I'm overall pleased, but I'd share a couple things with yall that you would only get if you did it yourself Parts list : Corsair HX750 ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard Intel i7 8...

I run pretty much all antec solo's at work, every machine is a quad core and usually has a pretty decent video card [240GT or 5670]. Adding in the two front fans [I use low RPM scythe's] seems to keep everything cooler, especially the HDD. With what you have listed, you won't have any problems, thou...

it's a front to back PSU, not a bottom to back

I didn't think about flipping the fan, if I build anymore I will try that. We use these at work for our meeting rooms.

The whole thing runs fairly warm; you can feel the heat radiating off the aluminum case. otherwise the power supply moves enough air to sort of keep the case a reasonable tmep [50c?ish].

Note this is copy/pasta from here I recently built this little Q07 Build. We're cramming a lot of power in a little space here, but I think they turned out awesome, especially for how quiet it is. Since they are in an office space you can pretty much always count on the hvac to cover up what little ...

For your existing hardware, since you're probably going to re-establish stability, I'd recommend a supermicro board. Here is a nice looking one, it's a bit expensive, but I've had good luck out of the box with SM motherboards for workstations. Otherwise, find the cheapest, well reviewed LGA775 mothe...

This seems challenging, I like that. As for advice, I'd say Athlon X3 is better/cheaper than X2. You might read up a bit on unlocking cores, sometimes you can get lucky and unlock extra cores in the X3 processor lines. Just poking around the egg site, I'd say this might be something to think about, ...