Hardware
This page will give a list of the hardware I’ve bought and installed. As I won’t be buying everything all at once, this list will grow as and when I purchase hardware. Each item will be discussed in greater detail in its own post.
Case
- Monueal MonCaso 301 Black
Monueal 301 HTPC case front view
This comes as with a Monueal-branded iMON remote control.
- AcoustiPack Soundproofing
AcoustiPack material
I’ve also bought the AcoustiPack LITE pack which should be enough to line most of the inside of the Moneual case.
Cooling
- Scythe Shuriken
Very quiet, low profile CPU cooler. Features heatpipes and PWM control.
- Nexus 80mm fan
This is for the intake at the front. Really nice and quiet. Model number is SP802512L.
Insides
- Motherboard - Asus M3N78-EM
Onboard GeForce 8300, HDMI and 5.1 output.
- CPU - AMD 5050e
Energy efficient dual-core Athlon64.
- Memory - 4GB ECC
2×2GB dual channel from Crucial, ECC for stability
Power Supply
Antec NeoHE 430
Very quiet, good for my airflow, and should be pretty efficient.
Optical drive
For now, a shitty old DVD-ROM I had kicking about. I plan to get a Blu-ray writer for Hi-def loveliness.
Storage
Boot: 80GB notebook drive out of a MacBook.
Main storage: 3x 500GB Western Digital Scorpio notebook drives in a linuxraid RAID5, giving 1TB storage and some redundancy.