Sladesurfer's Antec Solo

sladesurfer · Post by **sladesurfer** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:23 pm

Here's my quite rig. Zalman 9700 cooler and 7800 GTX 512 Video card

sladesurfer · Post by **sladesurfer** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:33 pm

I was going to get a 8800 GTX but it doesnt fit inside the case

Aeria · Post by **Aeria** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:53 pm

Why do you have such an overpowered psu?

sladesurfer · Post by **sladesurfer** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:58 pm

Im going dual cards of the next high end batch of cards and quad core plus i got the Psu $200 shipped from work

amjedm · Post by **amjedm** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:50 pm

Nice n tidy cabling.

How quiet is quiet?

derekchinese · Post by **derekchinese** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:53 pm

nice build! Thanks for sharing.

Derek

Konnetikut · Post by **Konnetikut** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:34 pm

Is that an OEM LG DVD drive?

sladesurfer · Post by **sladesurfer** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:35 pm

Im thinking of modding it and put a 120mm fan infront like this

Konnetikut · Post by **Konnetikut** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:52 pm

I'm thinking you shouldn't to preserve quietness.
You can go ahead and mod it for a 120mm fan, but just don't cut a hole in the front of the SOLO

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:04 am

doesn't the face of that case have vents on the sides for intake? if you pull off the face [of course without breaking it] you could mount a fan on the bare frame, drill the hole there, and then leave the face intact. i could be wrong though, but it would look better than having a gaping hole on the front of the tower.

sladesurfer · Post by **sladesurfer** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:02 pm

Konnetikut wrote:I'm thinking you shouldn't to preserve quietness.
You can go ahead and mod it for a 120mm fan, but just don't cut a hole in the front of the SOLO

I was thinking the same way also. It will ruin the sleek look of it

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:49 pm

What's that pcie 1x card?

autoboy · Post by **autoboy** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:22 pm

It is not pci-e x1. It is a special audio breakout board that happens to be a pci-e socket but it is not in the regular layout that a pci-e slot would be.

bonestonne · Post by **bonestonne** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:31 pm

its an AMR slot...i can't say i see any motherboards with them. Audio/Modem Riser...its used for extra or higher quality outputs than the onboard audio.

i have an ECS motherboard that has a slot for one...it doesnt work with PCI-e however.

Jasper · Post by **Jasper** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:22 am

Hmm, yes, if you look closely you can see it's just a little to the left of where the 16x slot starts (which a 1x slot wouldn't be).

AFAIK AMR has always been mostly an OEM-only thing, particularly to very cheaply add modems and stuff. In the old days, AMR was a very short AGP-style connector (about 4 cm), but I guess they've moved on to the much cheaper pcie1x style connector then.

Very, very occasionally I've seen retail motherboards that have an AMR slot and a card that uses it included in the package (it's hard to impossible to find the cards separately retail).

The Asus M2A-VM HDMI has a similar thing for video, a PCB with HDMI and component/svid/composite out (as well as the spdif circuitry but that's independent via a cable, I think) that plugs into the 16x slot, but will work only on that particular motherboard. I'm niot entirely sure how they do the dual function of essentially dumb-signal-carrier and real-16x-slot, AFAIK the HDMI card doesn't have any smarts on it.