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

eskro · 2012-04-13 23:00

FTW!!

jack0w · 2012-04-13 23:16

Thanks for the reassurance, your temperatures seem to be within a few degrees of mine. Smile

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! Huh

My build:

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

Beer40oz · 2012-04-14 06:37

Ok guys first page updated with pics..... Smile

enjoy.

eskro · 2012-04-14 07:07

wooaaa, amazing HTPC it is!!

see that Big Shuriken there, man, awesome!!

Can'T believe how cold temps are!! FTW!!

Hows the boot speed from power ON button pressed to full loaded desktop?

and what about XBMC, the UI is blazing fast like u want?

Beer40oz · 2012-04-14 07:24

Well I am not to happy with the ssd.... it boots at 50 sec.... same as my laptop hard drive.... I thought it would be faster.....

skippy · 2012-04-14 08:44

(2012-04-14 07:24)Beer40oz Wrote: Well I am not to happy with the ssd.... it boots at 50 sec.... same as my laptop hard drive.... I thought it would be faster.....

it takes roughly 1m 40s from a cold boot. I thought after my initial htpc setup my times were more in the range of 20 to 30s.

5s before the start screen showed up
5s for the bios logo to disappear
1m 30s for windows to boot and completely be logged ready to go.

Maybe something is screwed up with my setup...

eskro · 2012-04-14 10:20

as weird as it soundz, maybe torxq2's r just slow booterz?

review
http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_p...8gb,5.html

The Windows 7 boot time performance of the Patriot Torqx 2 128GB was nothing special and in fact it is one of the slowest SSDs we have tested here in recent time.

Sdpbc · 2012-04-14 15:03

50 seconds is an enormous amount of time for an SSD. On my older i3 based Acer laptop with a MomentusXT Hybrid drive I can get it to 20 seconds by eliminating the login screen and tweaking the drive a bit. Different animal, but 50 seconds is just too long.

Mind if I ask exactly what cables you required for the build? Pretty sure I'm going to do the same one, just waiting to see if anything goes down in price up here in CDA! Even the Mobo which is $89.99 at newegg.com is $104.99 + 11 shipping on newegg.ca ... ridiculous!

wsume99 · 2012-04-14 15:50

(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.

bluray · 2012-04-14 17:45

@beer...
Congratulation...and job well done!

As for slow bootup, have you do this "Instant Boot" and you can check out this video "ASRock Instant Boot"......

eskro Posting Freak Posts: 8,233 Joined: Nov 2010 Reputation: 156	2012-04-13 23:00 Post: #81 FTW!! My G7 HTPC // eSkRo's HTPC Guide // Poofy's HTPC Guide // unRAID Guide // SSD Optimization thx :)
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Beer40oz Donor Posts: 2,214 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 53 Location: The Moon	2012-04-14 06:37 Post: #83 Ok guys first page updated with pics..... enjoy. "A6-PACK" The Original ☆ unRAID Server ☆ MCE Remote Turn ON HTPC FOUND! w/DONGLE Time to sit back, relax and enjoy XBMC.... CHEERS!!!
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eskro Posting Freak Posts: 8,233 Joined: Nov 2010 Reputation: 156	2012-04-14 07:07 Post: #84 wooaaa, amazing HTPC it is!! see that Big Shuriken there, man, awesome!! Can'T believe how cold temps are!! FTW!! Hows the boot speed from power ON button pressed to full loaded desktop? and what about XBMC, the UI is blazing fast like u want? My G7 HTPC // eSkRo's HTPC Guide // Poofy's HTPC Guide // unRAID Guide // SSD Optimization thx :)
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Beer40oz Donor Posts: 2,214 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 53 Location: The Moon	2012-04-14 07:24 Post: #85 Well I am not to happy with the ssd.... it boots at 50 sec.... same as my laptop hard drive.... I thought it would be faster..... "A6-PACK" The Original ☆ unRAID Server ☆ MCE Remote Turn ON HTPC FOUND! w/DONGLE Time to sit back, relax and enjoy XBMC.... CHEERS!!! (This post was last modified: 2012-04-17 06:20 by Beer40oz.)
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bluray Posting Freak Posts: 7,575 Joined: May 2011 Reputation: 139	2012-04-14 17:45 Post: #90 @beer... Congratulation...and job well done! As for slow bootup, have you do this "Instant Boot" and you can check out this video "ASRock Instant Boot"...... >Alienware X51- do it all HTPC >Simplify XBMC configurations >HOW-TO Bitstreaming using XBMC I refused to watch movie without bitstreaming HD audio!
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