Cwis3man Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 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! Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Looks nice, you know there is no turning back now....... It's a slippery slope... Link to comment
00b5 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Do you have a VM running as well? Link to comment
Cwis3man Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 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 Link to comment
Blastermaster Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 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! Link to comment
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