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So, I've been moving around a lot the past 6 months. Life sort of fell apart completely and then came back together, and I've finally gotten settled into my own place. I've also kind of been able to go through some of the boxes of parts that I shipped to take inventory... I have a lot of crap that I need to get rid of. But, I also found a lot of stuff that I had forgotten that I even had. So, I'm looking to do a platform upgrade by selling off stuff that I don't need to fund stuff that I want.
First on the list, due in part to being selected for a super awesome beta program, is that my main gaming rig will go from being housed in Lan-Gear's Da Box 100 to their new mini-ITX chassis prototype, whatever it ends up being called. Also, If I can sell off my Q6600 CPU and RAM and all of ym socket 775 boards, I'll finally be able to join the ranks of the Socket 1156 Core i7 crowd. If it doesn't sell then likely I'll end up on a Zotac 9300 based board and keeping the CPU. Here's the current ideas I have, based on the hardware that I have, and what I've already traded:
That's what I'm thinking, for now. On the mini-ITX build, it will certainly be a PNY GTX480, the Silverstone 1kW fully modular w/shortcable set, the CoolIT ALC ECO, and the dual OCZ Vertex 60GB's in RAID-0. The new WHS will definitely be using the same CPU, RAM, and board that it has now. It's going to get a PSU swap, and add a bunch more drives to it. I am also toying with the idea of using this Dell SAS6/iR controller that I have to do all of the drives that are spinning disk. The board has 6 SATA ports onboard, but with the optical drive in the mix, I'm going to have 9 drives (1 ssd, 1 optical, and 7 mechanical) in there. Not too sure what to do on the drive config / number of SATA ports at the moment.
What do you guys think? Will I be the firstliquid cooled WHS in Da Box? Will I be the first to stuff 1kW, liquid cooling, dual SSDs and a 480 into the new mini-ITX chassis? I suppose we'll ahve to see on both of those. I don;t know of anyone else running their WHS inside of Da Box, but with the added drive cage above the PCI slots, this makes Da Box a viable WHS chassis, in my mind.
First on the list, due in part to being selected for a super awesome beta program, is that my main gaming rig will go from being housed in Lan-Gear's Da Box 100 to their new mini-ITX chassis prototype, whatever it ends up being called. Also, If I can sell off my Q6600 CPU and RAM and all of ym socket 775 boards, I'll finally be able to join the ranks of the Socket 1156 Core i7 crowd. If it doesn't sell then likely I'll end up on a Zotac 9300 based board and keeping the CPU. Here's the current ideas I have, based on the hardware that I have, and what I've already traded:
That's what I'm thinking, for now. On the mini-ITX build, it will certainly be a PNY GTX480, the Silverstone 1kW fully modular w/shortcable set, the CoolIT ALC ECO, and the dual OCZ Vertex 60GB's in RAID-0. The new WHS will definitely be using the same CPU, RAM, and board that it has now. It's going to get a PSU swap, and add a bunch more drives to it. I am also toying with the idea of using this Dell SAS6/iR controller that I have to do all of the drives that are spinning disk. The board has 6 SATA ports onboard, but with the optical drive in the mix, I'm going to have 9 drives (1 ssd, 1 optical, and 7 mechanical) in there. Not too sure what to do on the drive config / number of SATA ports at the moment.
What do you guys think? Will I be the firstliquid cooled WHS in Da Box? Will I be the first to stuff 1kW, liquid cooling, dual SSDs and a 480 into the new mini-ITX chassis? I suppose we'll ahve to see on both of those. I don;t know of anyone else running their WHS inside of Da Box, but with the added drive cage above the PCI slots, this makes Da Box a viable WHS chassis, in my mind.
