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Originally Posted by jaydee
Does this show up for you?
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Yes can see all images without problem from home, guess it is time to get my own proxy set up again
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Originally Posted by Marci
Cathar's done lots of testing of various fans for the PA160... he could probably advise the quietest one to use for the job, altho I'm guessing he'd say TriCod / YateLoon...
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Yeah, I will re-read the whole PA160 development thread.
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Originally Posted by ricecrispi
All i got to say is LC18. The screen looks sick. Think about that option since you are investing quite a bit of money. I know you have the $$ if you considered 2 passive rads costing $150-$180.
Please, do not hack a beautiful $200+ plus case or leave the top proturding out. Either way I would
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Well, I never seen the point of having a small VGA display in a computer. I will however get
this blue MDVA integrated in the front.
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Originally Posted by ricecrispi
You better start off by buying the case and put everything in there to get an idea how everything fits and what you plan to do. When I built my HTPC, placed the mobo, cd drive, psu, hard drives and filled up the pci slots, the case got filled up quickly. Connect all the sata cables, psu connectors, power connector, and Artic silencer and it gets worse. That was was max 4HD's at the time, not 8.
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Well I was trying to order case,
mobo, CPU, PSU and RAM today but since the mobo I want isn't in the normal stock they didn't manage to get back to me with a price before closing. When I know what space I have to mess around with I will decide on number of drives and the cooling.
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Originally Posted by ricecrispi
For 8 HDs, external rad is the only way. But not in the subwoofer. Lots of air is going in and out of subwoofer and if you cut a hole in the enclosure it can ruin the subwoofer intended internal design. Sound quality will drop off. Speaker enclosure is fine but outside ambient air. Speakers get hot and the enclosure air temps will rise.
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Well didn't plan to have the subwoofer working after I'm done. Think of the end result as a square rad-box that look like a subwoofer to melt in nicely with the Home Theatre environment.
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Originally Posted by ricecrispi
I think 6 HD's is more realistic and spend the money from the 2 HD's and buy bigger drives. WCing 4-5 drives in the middle column and leave a single drive for OS, programs, under the 5" 1/2 baydrive behind the usb and firewire panel. Remove the right side cage and that leaves you enough space for the pump and tubing and a rad. A 120mm rad on the right hand side will fit easily, maybe a 120.2 even.......
Heatercore does fit but the spacing is very tight because it's so thick. Add a shroud and 120mm fan and that gets packed tighter than a DP sandwich.
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The RAID controller and five 200GB drives will come from
here so no added cost.
When I have the main parts here sometime next week I will start planning the watercooling loop.