Re: Ratdude's Main rig V2
I ordered the AL Standoffs, as the SS ones were out of stock.
They came in today:
They are M3 x 13mm, the same length as the two stacked 6.5mm brass standoffs:
I bought 10 of them even though I only needed 8... this way if I somehow snapped one like I did last time, I wouldn't be up the creek again.
The final hardware layering :
Hardware installed (No standoffs snapped this time):
Coolers installed (fresh thermal compound on both):
So far the coolers are cooling well with the new mounts.
Since the last update, I swapped the SATA DVD-RW drive for a PATA one and the DVD-ROM for a CD-RW. I also re-installed the TV tuner, as my problems are partially caused by a sketchy 1ft Coax extension cable that wasn't doing what it was rated to do. The card only picks up a few (maybe 6 unencrypted) channels, not the 100+ my PCI-e tuner could pick up (which is going in a soon to be built HTPC rig).
All it really needs now is a pair or trio of HDDs (in the works) and some more RAM...
I ordered the AL Standoffs, as the SS ones were out of stock.
They came in today:
They are M3 x 13mm, the same length as the two stacked 6.5mm brass standoffs:
I bought 10 of them even though I only needed 8... this way if I somehow snapped one like I did last time, I wouldn't be up the creek again.
The final hardware layering :
Hardware installed (No standoffs snapped this time):
Coolers installed (fresh thermal compound on both):
So far the coolers are cooling well with the new mounts.
Since the last update, I swapped the SATA DVD-RW drive for a PATA one and the DVD-ROM for a CD-RW. I also re-installed the TV tuner, as my problems are partially caused by a sketchy 1ft Coax extension cable that wasn't doing what it was rated to do. The card only picks up a few (maybe 6 unencrypted) channels, not the 100+ my PCI-e tuner could pick up (which is going in a soon to be built HTPC rig).
All it really needs now is a pair or trio of HDDs (in the works) and some more RAM...
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