"Ambient"

Hi Bruce, Saw your rig &

Submitted by SuperRig on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 05:58.

Hi Bruce,
Saw your rig & think its cool
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pritty cloors

Submitted by jayman00444 on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 22:20.

pritty cloors

Neato! Good work :)

Submitted by RJFlash on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 06:33.

Neato! Good work :)

I can appreciate Gandalf’s

Submitted by 1500W on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 16:40.

I can appreciate Gandalf’s contribution to airflow problems. You have two beautiful pets.

The Mtron is fast and quiet

Submitted by Bruce on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 00:59.

The Mtron is fast and quiet which is what I wanted. I could only afford a 16Gb for Treasure Chest and so had to use Vlite to install Vista (it initially needs just over 16Gb spare space and then collapses down to 8 to 10Gb. For Ambient I went for 32Gb MTron and so did not alter Vista – but it comes with so many extras I don’t need so may change this – however I still have space for Office and a couple of big games. Bioshock currently. I love the speed and even sitting right next to me I dont hear whirring disk drives, and all the fans are super quiet scythe S-Flex. I think the price will drop quickly this year so soon we should bigger and cheaper solid state drives!

Bruce

Status

Ready for Battle

Deets

Modded SILVERSTONE Black Crown Series CW02B-MXR ATX Media Center / HTPC Case.

I have a dog – a husky called Gandalf and I had an Antec 900 on the floor under my desk. Husky hair and the twin 120 mm intake fans weren’t working.

Gandalf the Husky

The ‘donor’ PC had a lot dusty cables and noisy drives, so I wanted to re-build in a new case with more stealth, and a lot less noise…

Originally I wanted standard HTPC horizontal case to go over or under my Yamaha receiver, but then I thought that might be a bit boring and not worth writing up.

My plan was to make a very quiet (ambient noise) theatre / gaming / desk PC with water cooling (to ambient temperature) – hence the name: “ambient”

I used a Solid State Disc again (as I did in Treasure Chest) but this time went for 32GB so that Vista would install with no forcing. Backed this up with a fast 4GB USB drive and 1TB Caviar hard disk.

The finished set-up:

Ambient

Final Ambient

Ambient with Husky

Dog and PC separated…

Ambient with Husky

Asus P5KE wifi mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GHz chip
4 GB Corsair Ram
PNY XLR8 Invidia 8800 GTX gpu, with modded water cooling addition to fan.
32GB Mtron Solid State Disk as C: drive
1TB Caviar HDD as D: drive
PNY XLR8 4 GB 200x USB drive
LG HD and Blu-ray DVD optical drive
Thermaltake Liquid Cooling
UV and Blue cold cathode lighting
Yamaha RX-V361 connected by Fibre Optic SDIF
Rocketfish wireless rear speaker system
Logitech THX Surround 5.1 Sound speaker
3 additional Scythe S-Flex 120 mm ultra quiet fans