Stealth linux box

[shimmikins]

few months back found a PC on the side of the road cause it was council cleanup in my area, needed some ram, and the mechanical drive in it was almost dead.. but i noticed it had a removable MB tray.. which brought on the idea of a stealth build.. mount a few parts to a bit of plywood and mount that to the back of my desk.. 

 

the other day i needed to wander down to the local PC shop to grab an SSD for it, got a new PSU as the generic one that was in the orig box was louder than a 747, also got a new CPU cooler for it as the fan was almost dead from dust and shit in the bearings.. and had thrown in a spare 500gb 24/7 seagate server drive i had laying around for storage.. 

 

using bits of old mechano i had laying around for the past 20 years.. i mounted the parts needed to the plywood 

 

specs

 

AMD X2 250

2x2gb Corsair DDR2 800mhz

Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H

Kingston 120gb V300 SSD

Seagate ST3500630NS 24x7 500gb Drive

Corsair VS 450w PSU

 

its cheaper to run this rig as a daily driver than my gaming rig, so its nice to not be ass raped by the power company when the bills come around..

 

 

 

and tommorow i shall do the stealth part.. mounting this to the rear of my desk up against the wall (there shall be adequate ventilation as i dont keep the desk hard up against the wall)

 

when i mount it to the back of the desk, might need to break out the soldering iron to extend the power/reset switches as i had them bundled up neatly under stress testing this mobo to ensure it was 100% stable, but other than that, should be fairly easy to do and shall post pics when the job is done..

[Tiniest_Teddy]

i like the ghetto mechano gpu bracket thing

[soaringchicken]

This isn't main rig doe is it?

[shimmikins]

yeah shall be a daily driver, as electricity costs a shit load where i am.. my main rig is running dual GTX 570's.. when i was running this as a test while only turning on the gaming PC now and then, i noticed the power bill dropped a good 20%

[mikeeginger]

Dat Ghetto mount tho nice 

[DerBernd]

Very nice!

 

I have something similar, consumes 17.5 Watts in idle and around 20 under load. The only audible noise is the hard drive.

[shimmikins]

and it be installed to the back of the desk now... 

 

 

 

[ThesaurusLive]

Wow really stealthy