home server

[jathor]

Hey, I just wanted to show off a home server i built for 171$.

 

Specs: amd athlone II x4

asrock 970 extreme 3 r2.0

8 gb mushkin stiletto ram 1333mhz

intel i340-t2 network adapter

amd 5450

os drives: 2X 160gb wd drives (one for backup)

areca 1210 raid card (in raid 5)

4x 1tb wd green drives

xfx 550w psu

noctua nh-c14

antec 300 (or 302, not sure)

 

the only things i paid for were the noctua heatsink at 60$ brand new from kijiji, the mobo new for 66$ from canada computers and the psu from ncix at 45$.

everything else i sourced from a repair shop i used to work for.

 

i think it was a pretty good deal! it was kind of a project to keep me busy for a while and also for convenience. now all the movies and music are stored on this server and whoever is at my place can help themselves to wtv i have and can also stream it (which is what my brother and i do). It is also connected to the tv so we can watch youtube or movies from the big screen using a k400 logitech keyboard/mouse combo. (fyi, the keyboard isnt all that great, at all actually, but it serves its purpose very well).

 

 

i replaced the areca's god awfully loud fan with a noctua nf-a4x10 flex fan and use only one of the fans included with the heatsink to keep things quiet. i have 2 coolermaster fans for intake (which i undervolted to 7v to keep things quiet and the same goes for the silverstone exhaust fan and it's basically silent.

 

i am planning of getting myself one of those silverstone htpc cases. i think they look great and would fit everything i have in there. That is also the reason why i went with that heatsink (for clearance).

 

http://imgur.com/a/8GxKh#0

 

btw, how do i embed pictures here?

[mvitkun]

[hiyayhi]

Looks awesome.

[jathor]

Hahaha, lol, thanks mvitkun!! And hiyayhi

[simson0606]

NOCTUA'S, i love everything with noctua's :wub:

[Stadiz]

Sweet! a RAID card! Extreme ^^

[jathor]

yeah it`s a pci-x raid card so honnestly not the fastest thing but enough to play 4 hd streams at the same time! and that 40mm noctua is (pardon the next couple words) the cutest thing ever!

[jathor]

and way way quiter than the original fan on the raid card which sounded abismal. but hey, most of those things were free so no complaints