Silent HTPC 2011 | E-350 APU

[cdawall]

I have a feeling if you ever loaded that gpu it would overheat with a lack of any airflow in the case get a case fan and undervolt the outta it

[Tomasis]

We are now baking with up to 300F, it's getting really annoying to have to tear it apart every month and bake it in an oven just to watch Blu rays.

bake food together with it for a movie

[Daveburt714]

Hey Simon,

If your interested, I'd highly recommend this drive for storage.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152173

I've had one for ~1 yr now, it's very quiet, runs cool, cheap and has a decent amount of room...

Mine's been totally reliable. Those SSD's are a nice touch, but where you gonna put your media (unless you wanna stream it all).

Just thought I'd throw it out there...

[Tomasis]

found a thing that looks cool..

http://translate.google.com/translat...pulab-fit-pc3/



it'd be good enough for me

[richierich]

found a thing that looks cool..

it'd be good enough for me

Dude that's awesome.

[n!Cola]

Dude that's awesome.

+1
Nice little power package ! only usb3 and it would be perfection. Add this controller and you got perfect htpc.

[cdawall]

Dude that's awesome.

i like how the case is the heatsink

[Manicdan]

found a thing that looks cool..

http://translate.google.com/translat...pulab-fit-pc3/



it'd be good enough for me

i think that should be shown in the news section, its crazy small and yet still a full PC (minus optical drive which means you can use a USB blu ray instead of being stuck with dvd?)

[Johnny87au]

found a thing that looks cool..

http://translate.google.com/translat...pulab-fit-pc3/



it'd be good enough for me

First time ive seen something like that

[Hondacity]

http://www.fudzilla.com/motherboard/...sted-in-europe
Already listed in EU, not sure when it's going to be available. Soon, I suppose.

200$ WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF


i like it

[zalbard]

200$ WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF


i like it

153 EUR in Europe, so probably ~$175 in the US...
And it's a pre-order price, so it might drop, who knows.

[skeyo]

I think is to much. $120 is more reasonable. Board looks cool tho.

[Johnny87au]

If they dropped board a bit this board would kill it as a HTPC, bluetooth,WIFI, 2x pcie, 18Wtdp and looks like it has some great chipset cooling!

[Tomasis]

i think that should be shown in the news section, its crazy small and yet still a full PC (minus optical drive which means you can use a USB blu ray instead of being stuck with dvd?)

the problem is that it is for enterprise, not consumers, hence quite expensive..


I hope other companies produce something like this. maybe zotac?

case as heatsink, yeah! great idea.. love the compact size

put things as external 3,5e hdd, bluray, etc. on the case and connect with e-sata, usb like as lego module

[Manicdan]

the problem is that it is for enterprise, not consumers, hence quite expensive..


I hope other companies produce something like this. maybe zotac?

case as heatsink, yeah! great idea.. love the compact size

put things as external 3,5e hdd, bluray, etc. on the case and connect with e-sata, usb like as lego module

i didnt see a price for it at all, and the article just says price not published

[Tomasis]

i didnt see a price for it at all, and the article just says price not published

I should be more clear that I didnt state price as fact

but its good idea to look at PC2 price (older)

since it is customized unit for enterprise, they could charge double or triple price

lets hope it is cheap enough.. who knows

[BeepBeep2]

I'm waiting on these boards to arrive myself...

Want to put a demo and HTPC build together within this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811121114 $60
Running Ubuntu (free)
E-350 motherboard (hopefully less than $150)
250GB WD AV Drive $35
Slim DVD Burner $25
4GB DDR3-1066 $35

Projected price being $325 Ubuntu, $460 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed

[Johnny87au]

I'm waiting on these boards to arrive myself...

Want to put a demo and HTPC build together within this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811121114 $60
Running Ubuntu (free)
E-350 motherboard (hopefully less than $150)
250GB WD AV Drive $35
Slim DVD Burner $25
4GB DDR3-1066 $35

Projected price being $325 Ubuntu, $460 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed

Nice beepbeep, would be even cheaper with 2gb ram :O ...im still waiting for llano for a htpc though..

[BeepBeep2]

Nice beepbeep, would be even cheaper with 2gb ram :O ...im still waiting for llano for a htpc though..

...and thats 4GB Dual Channel. For what my school does with their thin clients, I believe running 512MB/1GB of ram would even be sufficient.

If I were to build these for my school district I'd definately stick with a single stick of 2GB ram ($20)...and I'd need to get in contact with manufacturers XD

Say I were to personally build 120-240 of these (should be simple enough considering the PSU setup), making only $35 on each build I'd net a near instand 4 to 8k profit...and thats huge for someone like me, anyway.

I'd just have to put ram on board, put board in case, add HDD and disk drive, connect via SATA, connect PSU, close case...slap geniune Windows sticker on side and install/test the box, install windows, run through memtest, maybe 10 passes LinX and a minute of furmark and that machine is done. ...heck I could teach a 10 year old to do that.

[Johnny87au]

definately, 1gb/2gb is what i'd go..25w max?

[BeepBeep2]

definately, 1gb/2gb is what i'd go..25w max?

They would be really nice efficient, compact full machines, wouldn't they?

It's something I wouldn't mind running Photoshop on in Photography actually, and they should most definately be as fast or faster CPU wise as our 2.8 Ghz P4 HT builds, without the headaches of thin clients...

If only my school district were not so retarded.... They bought I believe about 1000 HP T5710 Thin Clients back in '08...

TWO FREE USB PORTS...AND THEY DONT FUNCTION AT ALL

You get your little HP mouse, your HP keyboard, and your crappy 17 inch HP screen connects via VGA, with lots of lines and analog artifacts because either the thin client's signal is weak or your cable is trash.

[Johnny87au]

lol i think the teachers "head of IT" really needs to tune into these forums, Its another ball game to them lol... Yeah i'd imagine them being a pretty hand computer, light on the sources and is good enough for browsing the web, Definately better then a Intel P4

[64NOMIS]

Pix in the AM.

Laser cutting required.

[Daveburt714]

I'd really like to see some pics of this little beauty Simon.

Any clue when these Zacate boards will be available for us mear mortals...

[Johnny87au]

I'd really like to see some pics of this little beauty Simon.

Any clue when these Zacate boards will be available for us mear mortals...

February buddy