[mythtv-users] please bless this system

Bertrand bertrandmuscle at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 12 07:23:12 EST 2005


ND-3550A is really loud and doesnt seem to fit very well into the case. 
(It works, but not without some alterations)


tgate wrote:
> We recently bought a new Home Entertainment cabinet and of course my  
> Devine 5 case won't fit into it so it gives me a good excuse to  "need" 
> a whole new system.  I've had my share of buying hardware that  wasn't 
> compatible with each other and I'd like to be fairly sure this  time 
> around.  This is what I'm thinking of getting, i'd love it if  someone 
> could point out any obvious problems they may see with it.
> 
> Some questions in particular are:
>     1) does the mobo need an IDE hard drive as the boot device or  can I 
> use sata?
>     2) does the mobo support the vfd and ir from the LC11m?
>     3) does the cd/dvd drive fit in the LC11m case and is it easy to  
> detatch the drive door face? (wouldn't think I had to worry about  this 
> but I found out the hard way)
>     4) Is there anything else I need?
>     5) do all these components play nice with one another?
>     6) Have people had good luck with using a micro atx motherboard?
> 
> 
> case:     Silverstone LC11m    w/pcie expansion riser.
>               http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-lc11m.htm
> mobo:   Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro  ATX 
> AMD Motherboard
>               http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp? 
> item=N82E16813186086
> processor: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939  Processor 
> Model ADA3700BNBOX    (2.2GHz)
>               http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp? 
> item=N82E16819103539
> memory: Patriot "Extreme Performance" 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400  
> (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model PEP5123200LL
>               http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp? 
> item=N82E16820220018
> hard drive:  Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA  
> 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
>               http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp? 
> item=N82E16822144417
> CD/DVD: NEC Silver IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3550A
>               http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp? 
> Item=N82E16827152060
> Graphics card:  Albatron trinity NVidia GeForce 6600 PCIExpress
> Tuner Cards: two HD5000 OTA HDTV cards
> 
> Thanks for anything you may pick out.
> 
> 
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