ibm 5150

[Airbozo]

i was thinking i might play around with some cable management, so i opened it up and started rerouting and stuffing cables under the drive bays. it does look a little cleaner, but since there are no windows or anything, i decided it was futile. i'll leave the real cable management for my next project.

In a closed case, the main reason for cable management is to provide better airflow. After that you are right, it is almost futile.

[xr4man]

that's very true. the way i have it now, i think, provides plenty of airflow. there's not much i can do with the mobo power and the disk power cables. they are almost exactly the right length to connect.

[xr4man]

well, i thought this was a finished build, but then microsoft had to come out with home server 2011 and it was cheap. so since i needed a media server anyway, since the remote for my bedroom htpc was interfering with the new remote for the main room htpc, i decided to use the main htpc as the server since it's running a power sipping atom processor.

soooo. here it is all opened up again.

and what could this possibly be????? yes, the 2 TB drive from my bedroom htpc has donated itself to teh server for file storage.

and this is just a screen shot of whs 2011 installing.

[Xpirate]

I did this with an old IBM XT case before back when Pentium 90 was state of the art. I wish I still had it now so I could post a picture.

[xr4man]

i've got it all set up and streaming movies and music quite nicely.

[xr4man]

well, since i can't leave well enough alone, i gutted this and transplanted all teh internals into an old hp case. the server is back up and running and now i present the next and hopefully last incarnation for a really long time.

the important hardware consists of:
biostar socket lga775 mobo (micro-atx)
dual core celeron @ 2.6ghz
4g ocz ram (stolen from the blue oyster pc)
xfx radeon hd 4670 (forgot to get a picture)
250g sata 2 laptop drive

it's running windows 8 developer's preview and xbmc just fine. all the windows 7 drivers loaded up just fine.

here are the new stuffs i got to put in it.

i didn't get pics of actually putting it all in, but you all know what that looks like anyway. so here are the completed pics.

and with that, this should be complete now. time to just sit back and enjoy some netflix.

[AmEv]

Do a bit-by-bit comparison of old specs and new specs!

[xr4man]

haha, that's a cool idea. i'll get on that right away.

[xr4man]

ok, here it is

by just sheer processor speed this new one is 500 times faster than the original. take the extra core into consideration and it's 1000 times faster. lol

[AmEv]

Take into consideration 16-bit vs. 64 bit....

HDD space....



Expandablilty....

GPU speed........



We've gone a long way.