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Over the weekend, I found time here and there, (mostly at 2am) to assemble all the goodies that was delivered on Thursday and Friday.
Overall thoughts....
Component choices seem to be a good one. The case is "solid" and easy to work with, I did have t extra pieces of metal that was in a bag and Im not sure where they may be needed. \
One thing i was toying with was a sata drive cage for the front which would have taken 2- 5 1/4 slots and given me a "hot swap option" for 3- 3 1/2 drives. Which now that I think about it yes this would have been nice but I think it would have been a wasted expense.
I performed a burn in over night once it was built running, both cores of the processor at 100% maxed out processor temp at about 60 degrees! not bad considering Everything was maxed out....
I think I may consider swapping out the standard case fans but that is not needed to happen tomorrow.
Overall a great choice for parts and NEWEGG as usual shipped quickly. I might re consider my choice of OS but that is because I am having problems with getting SageTV to run with my OS and hardware choices, but I have not spent enough time to decide yet.
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Overall thoughts....
Component choices seem to be a good one. The case is "solid" and easy to work with, I did have t extra pieces of metal that was in a bag and Im not sure where they may be needed. \
One thing i was toying with was a sata drive cage for the front which would have taken 2- 5 1/4 slots and given me a "hot swap option" for 3- 3 1/2 drives. Which now that I think about it yes this would have been nice but I think it would have been a wasted expense.
I performed a burn in over night once it was built running, both cores of the processor at 100% maxed out processor temp at about 60 degrees! not bad considering Everything was maxed out....
I think I may consider swapping out the standard case fans but that is not needed to happen tomorrow.
Overall a great choice for parts and NEWEGG as usual shipped quickly. I might re consider my choice of OS but that is because I am having problems with getting SageTV to run with my OS and hardware choices, but I have not spent enough time to decide yet.
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