yeah, a dude at work mentioned those things to me too, but the calculations were more than my brain could handle, lol. so i just looked at processor speed alone. i didn't want to make my head explode yet.
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yeah, a dude at work mentioned those things to me too, but the calculations were more than my brain could handle, lol. so i just looked at processor speed alone. i didn't want to make my head explode yet.
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Now, I need to find my parents' IBM, work on it lol.
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my suggestion would be to locate the mobo all the way to one side or the other to make room for a full size power supply. also the mobo can only be 8.4 inches deep.
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Almost seems like you can almost squeeze it onto the other side of where you had it.....
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yes with a little bit of cutting THAT power supply would fit on the other side, but not a standard atx. the case isn't all enough to put an atx ps on it's side and with the mobo in the middle there isn't enough room on either side to lay it down.
now of course if you used a mini-itx board like i did originally, then there is plenty of room to lay down an atx ps in the same location that i have the new ps.
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Will look into it.
Now, need to find it (if they still have it.....)
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this thing is running great as my htpc and running win8. the power supply fan is inaudible with this stuck in the tv stand. so i'm glad i don't have to open it back up to rewire the fan.
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I'm going to be making one of these with an XT-5160. Any tips or problems you encountered along the way?
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there's not really anything difficult to it.
the main thing is to mount the mobo all the way to one side or the other instead of in the middle like i did. that should give you plenty of room to use a full size power supply.
the other thing is you'll need to either use a mini-itx mobo or a micro-atx mobo that is only 6.7" deep. i could only find a couple of biostar mobos that fit that size restriction. you might be able to get away with a mobo slightly bigger than that, but it will depend on where the connectors and ram are located as part of the board would have to sit under the 5-1/4" bays.
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