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- LowBoost - 2012-01-19 R1Lee, Nice setup. Do you have any heating issues with the Emotiva's being racked in such a confined space or do you have a fan tray as well? I am still debating how to avoid heat issues in my rack. I also have similar Emo gear, but I also have a Dell server and about to install a Supermicro 846A - 24 drive bay chassis. You have the advantage of the room as well. Mine is in a 8' x 5' closet. - r1lee - 2012-01-20 LowBoost Wrote:R1Lee, This is the unit i went with. I was concern about how loud most servers get. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/743/SC743T-665.cfm But i ended up pulling all the system fans out and replacing them and if the screw holes weren't in different area's i would also replace the powersupply to a fanless. But my Server runs damn quiet, roughly 16-17db. Anyhow, i do have a 2U APC Fan (4*80MM fan's) above the Amps and the Fan that goes on top of the rack (4 80mm fans). I have not turned them on since it's winter and I have also read that their DB levels are extremely loud (100db), so either i'm going to replace them (need a friend to come in and rewire) or attempt to run it without the fans for now. If it causes too much heat in the summer, then i would definately do the fan swap. The equipment room is about 48inches wide and 87" tall and a depth of about 60 inches. But my contractor has stated that in the summer if it gets too hot, that he will cut a vent hole into the ceiling of that room and vent any hot air into that bulkhead. The room currently gets warm and when I'm next to my equipment i can feel it. It comes from the Server as that's the only thing on. Hope that helps. - LowBoost - 2012-01-20 I think I can replace the fans or just play with the BIOS settings to lower the noise. Unfortunately, Supermicro is know for very loud fans, and most of the noise comes from the power supplies… so not much we can about it. I have a slight advantage that my closet is right next the HT Room, so noise shouldn't be an issue unless those power supplies are really annoying. The Dell server is pretty quiet though. I will get two of those APC fan trays… and I also need a new/larger UPS. - r1lee - 2012-01-20 also I confirmed with emotiva that when using their rack ears, you can remove the feet. Since I had space, I kept the feet on and allowed a little bit of airflow between them. If I ran into space issues, then they would come off. - npggefvert - 2012-01-20 LowBoost Wrote:I think I can replace the fans or just play with the BIOS settings to lower the noise. Unfortunately, Supermicro is know for very loud fans, and most of the noise comes from the power supplies… so not much we can about it. If you can afford the space, I went with 4U chassis for my 4 servers even though I didn't need that much room inside each one - it allows for 120mm fans, which spin at a lower speed... - Eldesi - 2012-01-20 I looked at all the awesome setups on here, and i became jealous. I cashed in my life insurance, withdrew 13 years of savings, pimped my wife for four months and stole money from my work and friends. I took the grand total of £39844 and set off for the A.V. store. As i was about to enter i met a guy on the way out, and after a little conversation he persuaded me that he could do much, much more for that money. This is my setup; Uploaded with ImageShack.us I am totally buzzed about it Now if only i could get Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA audio working. The moral of the story; " ..'Ware the Home Theatre Bug!" - charlie0440 - 2012-01-21 Being my first house I don't have much space for a fancy setup. Everything is hidden as best at it can be. The wiring and patch panel is not in a seperate nice cabinet, but squeezed under the gas meter, next to the electric meter, attached to my DIY rack mount! 24 Port CAT5e Patch Panel, Cable Modem, Dlink N Router, TP LINK 8 Port Gigabit switch Heres my setup: Living Room TV - Samsung 50" Plasma PS50A457 AMP - Sony STR-DG820 & 5.0 crap sony speakers HTPC - Acer Revo 3610 Remotes - Logitech harmony remote & a nook color - running CM7 & android XBMC remote app Electric reclining sofas Living Room photos (the patch panel housing (above photo) is on the right hand side with the photos on top): Spare bedroom / office - houses my server (left box) and my desktop (right box), made of spare parts hooked up to dual monitor, 1 is a 24" Dell Ultrasharp U2412M Bedroom / office photo: Server: Headless ubuntu Server - TV / File / Web Server: Case - Antec 300 StarTech 4 Drive 3.5in Trayless Hot Swap SATA Mobile Rack Backplane HSB430SATBK CPU - 2.5ghz dual core RAM - 4gb 8 port SAS / SATA - Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8I 11 Hard drives TV card (USB) - Tevii s660 - Running VDR To do list. Replace tevii for a LinuxMedia dual turner. Replace the revo for a bitstreaming audio HTPC, and replace the old desktop with the spare revo. - nsviper - 2012-01-22 Whilst not as extensive (or massive!) as some of the setups on here, thought i'd share my nice n neat setups. Main Room: Sony KDLV40" TV Sky+ HD Panasonic Surround Sound System Thor HDMI/optical splitter Apple TV 2 (just to the left of the bottom speaker if u can't see it ) Conservatory: Sony 26" TV Apple TV 2 Both ATV's are wired into Solwise 200MB Power Line Adapters, and all my media is stored on a QNAP TS410 NAS elsewhere in the house, also wired into the Solwise adapters. - giniedp - 2012-01-22 Nice setups out there. So here is mine: TV: Samsung LE-40F86BD BD-Player: Philips BDP7500B2 Mediaserver: ASUS AT5IONT-I / 2x2GB Kingston DDR3 / 2x2TB Western Digital Elements / 1x2TB Hitachi AV-Receiver: Onkyo TX-SR608 Front speaker: Canton GLE 490 Center speaker: Canton GLE 455 Surround speaker: Wharfedale WH2 Dipol (to be replaced by GLE 410) Front wide speaker: Alesis One MK II (not in permanent use) - castortray - 2012-01-23 nsviper Wrote:Conservatory: What skin is that ? - TeKo - 2012-01-23 focus, refocus or retro focus I would say. - krish_2k4 - 2012-01-23 r1lee Wrote:Well this is almost all the XBMC machine's currently in my house. The only one that's not on here yet is my daughter's, ATV2. sweet mother of holy god - nsviper - 2012-01-24 TeKo Wrote:focus, refocus or retro focus I would say. Yup reFocus - super fast n smooth on my ATV's - both screenshots are from that skin...link in sig.... - Batesizurdaddie - 2012-01-25 This is the setup I have dreamed of. Pure pimpin! One of the best ive seen. I love the movie posters up around the room, Im still trying to convince my GF to let me hang some framed ones up myself. Congrats sir! r1lee Wrote:Thanks guys, the bar leading to the theater room is much fun also - r1lee - 2012-01-25 Batesizurdaddie Wrote:This is the setup I have dreamed of. Pure pimpin! One of the best ive seen. I love the movie posters up around the room, Im still trying to convince my GF to let me hang some framed ones up myself. Congrats sir! Actually those posters are acoustic panels that I did myself. |