A6-PACK ☆ ISK 300-90 picoPSU HTPC A6-3500 Very Silent!

@Beer - Whui, so glad to hear that it all worked out great, congrats
Really like that it's so quiet and cool, sweeeeet build
How was the noise-level, with case fan plugged in?

Now I'm even more excited to recieve my setup

(2012-04-14 15:50)wsume99 Wrote:  

(2012-04-13 23:16)jack0w Wrote:  Thanks for the reassurance, your temperatures seem to be within a few degrees of mine.

Quote:Also I hooked up the Kill-a-watt and I was drawing 34 watts...I believe that was idle with XBMC and win7 running or maybe it was playing music or something.

Really? How have you managed that? My system draws nearly double the amount of power yours is using!

My build:

A6-3500
ASRock A75M-ITX
4GB DDR
64GB OCZ SSD
1x Noctua NF-R8 80mm Fan

What are you using for a PSU? If you are using an ATX-sized PSU then that is your problem.

I'm just using the standard PSU that came with my Antec ISK300-150, so no not an ATX PSU.

Are you using same case and PSU as me?

(2012-04-14 20:10)morfeus Wrote:  @Beer - Whui, so glad to hear that it all worked out great, congrats
Really like that it's so quiet and cool, sweeeeet build
How was the noise-level, with case fan plugged in?

Now I'm even more excited to recieve my setup

I never hooked up the case fan.... I took out the whole cage..... I just tested the sound of that fan for you. It's quiet at the first level.... the third sounds like a plane.....

(2012-04-14 20:34)Beer40oz Wrote:  I took out the whole cage.....

FTW!!

(2012-04-14 20:34)Beer40oz Wrote:  I never hooked up the case fan.... I took out the whole cage..... I just tested the sound of that fan for you. It's quiet at the first level.... the third sounds like a plane.....

If the temperature rise and you need to use the case fan, you can set CPU to "Cool ‘n’ Quiet" in AsRock Bios Advance tab and set the CPU operating temperature to 50 degrees in Bios Hardware/Health Monitor tab....and you can set both CPU and case fans to level 5.......

With the configurations above, it is very silent with the included stock CPU cooler, stock PSU and case fan.....

ALL SSD Optimization done! and still 15 SEC boot.... thanx Leo

(2012-04-14 20:34)Beer40oz Wrote:  I never hooked up the case fan.... I took out the whole cage..... I just tested the sound of that fan for you. It's quiet at the first level.... the third sounds like a plane.....

Thanks for the testing, Beer. With your setup and tests, I think I made the right choise, waiting on ordering the Noctura case cooler.

By the way, I downloaded an app for Android a couple of months ago, "Sound Meter". Don't know how excact it is, but if you got an Android, and the time, would you do some db testing? Maybe 0,5 m - 1,5 m and 2 m away?

(2012-04-14 21:14)Beer40oz Wrote:  ALL SSD Optimization done! and still 15 SEC boot.... thanx Leo

This makes me happy as I just made my wife pick up the same SSD! Whew!

Beer, one question about the possibility of putting a slim blu-ray drive in there with the BIG Shuriken 2. How much room is there for a drive? I happen to have one from a friends busted laptop I was thinking of putting in there. If it will interfere with the Shuriken 2 I'm not sure if I want blu-ray bad enough to go with a different heatsink/fan.

If you have time and are working in your case anyways could you see how much room for the drive with the Shuriken there is?? The drive measures pretty much an even 5" deep... although that's not taking into consideration the extra room for the power/SATA cables. Not a big deal if you don't have you system opened up on it anymore, I'll end up finding out for myself next week when my case gets here.

I believe there is room for your dvd drive..... take your time on cutting the bracket correctly. This Shuriken is the best for this.... it just fits with the bracket..... just cut the sides a little. Look at my pic of the bracket.



You will love this setup... let us know hot the dvd drive works out...!!!

I am no playing with my new qwerty small keyboad.
In bios you can enable stuff so the PC turns of from cold.
Supposedly my MCE remote suppose to work but it does not.

Now this new qwerty keyboard does work! any button even the mouse pad works and turns on the computer.

To make it work you have to enable it in bios.... and thats it!

Now when I am lazy I don't have to get up.....