January 21, 201610 yr I think I crammed about as much stuff into this box as I possibly could at this point. Case: Fractal Design Node 605 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 CPU: i7-4790 w/ Corsair H50 Water Cooler RAM: 16GB Hyper Fury X DDR3 1866 Graphics Card: Evga Nvidia GTX 750 Ti (Shorter Version) Power Supply: Corsair CS450M Cache: 2x Samsung 840 Evo SSDs + 2x Samsung XP941 M.2 SSDs on Lycom DT-129 PCIE Adapters Parity: 4TB WD Green HD Data: 2x 2TB WD Green HD + 1TB WD Green HD Blu Ray Combo Drive IR Receiver Fan Controller A Ton of Fans - I even hung one from the HDD support bar to keep the 3.5" Drives a little cooler (Dropped them about 4-5 Degrees) Dockers: Plex Media Server, Deluge-VPN (With PIA VPN), Mylar, Sonarr, & Couchpotato Huge Thanks to Bin-Hex and Jonp for all the help along the way It was a challenge fitting everything in this case and keeping it neat. I had to mod the case a little bit to accommodate the radiator for the water-cooler and the eye for the IR receiver (located above the power button). I also had to get one of these PCI Bracket adapters to fit the two 2.5" SSD in the empty space between the power supply and the motherboard. "'>KINGWIN KW-PCI2H25 2 Bay PCI-E HDD Frame For 2.5" IDE/SATA HDD/SSD And finally I picked up one of these for the blu ray drive since I was out of sata ports on the motherboard. Luckily the IR reciever only uses half of a USB 2.0 header so I was able to use the other half for this guy. Internal USB 2.0 to Slim CD/DVD Optical SATA Adapter w/ SP4 Power So in total I crammed 4x HDDs, 4x SSDs, and a Blu Ray Drive into a nice HTPC case. I'm pretty happy with the results and plan on replacing the HDDs with WD Reds over time. Wondering if it would be worth getting a Red Pro for the Parity Drive. Anyhow Let me know what you think!
January 21, 201610 yr Looks nice, you know there is no turning back now....... It's a slippery slope...
January 22, 201610 yr Author Do you have a VM running as well? Yup! I converted my living room PC for Media/Steam inhome streaming into an unRAID NAS that now downloads everything and still does it's old functions! So glad I switched to unRAID
February 2, 201610 yr Wow! This is exactly the kind of build I wanted to make! Thank you for providing the parts list! I looked through the supported CPUs of the motherboard and saw that it does support Xeon E3-1230 v3. Should also support gpu pass through. I'll give this build a go as well!
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