Pimp my rig thread

[Ed]

Every techy forum has to have one of these. I'll start it off:

Shuttle SN45G
250W SilenX PSU
Athlon 2400+ @ 135MHz FSB
2x512Mb PC3200 dual channel GEiL memory
Galaxy Geforce 6600GT AGP 128Mb (factory OC'd to 525/1050MHz)
Seagate 160Gb 7200.7 8Mb cache EIDE HDD
Lite-On CD-RW
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 413 17" CRT
Keytronics KT2001 Pro keyboard
Logitech MX500 corded optical mouse
Logitech SoundMan S-20 2.1 speaker set

Windows 2000 Pro/Mandriva 2006

At the moment the Shuttle uses an 80mm Coolermaster blue LED fan. This is because the Sunnon fan which it came with (and that Shuttle are still using) was rubbish. The CPU idles at 51C at this marginal OC. I'm going to dremel out the exhaust mesh to get better airation and will also try different fan configs to try and get better CPU and system cooling.

I'm also intending to get rid of the Lite-On CD-RW and get an LG dual layer DVD burner. Further in future another graphics card upgrade may come. I don't see the point as yet as the only significant upgrade is a 7800GS AGP and that's £200+ here. It also suffers from all of the high end card problems like being big, loud, hot and drawing a lot of current. No doubt if theres a Geforce 9200 AGP it'll be way quicker. I can wait.

I'll probably have replaced the whole system by then anyway but it would be nice to get it set up as a media rig so a cheap passively cooled card would be good then.

[leileilol]

Athlon64 3200
Radeon 9500 Pro 128mb
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
160GB Seagate Barracuda
512MB DDR400 RAM (corsair)
Windows XP Professional x64 edition

k.

[Tenn]

Ive cut something out for better scrolling this thread

Windows XP SP2 Home Edition
AMD Sempron 3100+ (1800MHz)
448MB RAM (The other 54MB didnt count????!!! Dont know why)
On Board (no plan what a graka)
160 GB HD
5MB second HD, yes 5 MB!
Extern 500GB

Some more details...

[Tenn]

Sry for doubble post, but the last post is too long for the database I think, its just the half of my computer listed


Anyway - anyone need more informations??

[Urmel]

250W SilenX PSU

I can't believe Your system works with that! Thats a joke isn't it???? 250W

[Tenn]

Why not?

[cyan]

Why not?

LIES ALL LIES!!

[Tenn]

Back 2 topic guys lol

[Ed]

250W SilenX PSU

I can't believe Your system works with that! Thats a joke isn't it???? 250W

No joke. It's a Shuttle. Originally it had the 200W supply. It works perfectly fine. If you actually measure the power usage of a computer you get a lot less than the PSU's output. I would expect mine to be about 160W actually used. It is not all about power, tolerance is important. Mine gives me within +/- 0.04 V on all lines. You can't get that on most 500W supplies. The tolerance tends to get worse at the highend which is why most cheap power supplies can't actually put out their rated power reliably. Next time you're looking for a power supply don't go for the one with the big numbers, look for one with clean output instead,

Lots of people have had Athlon 64's with highend graphics cards and multiple HDD's in a Shuttle on the same 250W.

Never had any stability problems ever. Even when I've connected up multiple drives and extra fans for testing. Always rock solid voltages.

[a thing]

2.40GHz (Nexuiz PC) 2.26GHz (server) Intel Pentium 4
.5GB RAM + 1GB swap
~80GB harddrive
ATI Radeon 9100 (with free DRI drivers! - Nexuiz PC) nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 (server)
Fedora Core 4, soon to be 5