i3 slim case build

blos · 2012-07-31 13:11

(2012-07-31 04:51)Mallet21 Wrote: What are your temps?

Just came home so installed coretemp and left it in the background when watching some LoTR BR remuxes and other high-bitrate content. Cores went all the way to 70C Cool

Edit: Ambients were around 30C

solamnic · 2012-07-31 15:03

Isnt 70 a bit toooooooo much?

Dougie Fresh · 2012-07-31 16:17

It's the tradeoff you make for having a small and quiet system. As long as nothing melts you're good. I have to imagine a laptop is a more hostile environment than that little case.

Beer40oz · 2012-07-31 16:35

Cool case.... thanx.

solamnic · 2012-07-31 16:42

Dont know if the new ivy i3 are cooler..
I must admit that i really like the looks of the case..
Btw r u using windows 7 or openelec?
Which remote u use btw?

Dougie Fresh · 2012-07-31 16:55

According to news from May, Ivy Bridge runs hotter than Sandy Bridge.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news...run-hotter

No idea if this has been corrected.

blos · 2012-08-01 03:45

Yeah the temps are what they are, winter will bring them down though. Also I noticed that the speedstep is keeping the CPU at 1.6GHz quite consistently so seems like there's no point underclocking it at all. I might be interested in getting a better case fan for it to pull the hotness out but I doubt... it's working fantastically now.

It's win7... I'd rather use ubuntu as the backend but I need my bitstreaming audio Smile

Also the intel drivers seem to do a decent job with the local contrast enhancement and skin tones, I'm pretty sure the linux drivers won't support those. And the win7 boots ungodly fast (like 8 seconds from full power down), my amps hdmi doesn't have time to sync until the xbmc is already running so nobody ever sees windows loading screen Smile

For remote I had an old Logitech diNovo mini keyboard which I got as a present years ago. The included bluetooth dongle is actually capable of powering on the box from shutdown which is awesome.

I tried the android remote's WoL functionality but it didn't seem to work, the bios didn't have anything about WoL either so it might not be supported on this MB Sad

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solamnic · 2012-08-01 08:10

(2012-08-01 03:45)blos Wrote: It's win7... I'd rather use ubuntu as the backend but I need my bitstreaming audio Also the intel drivers seem to do a decent job with the local contrast enhancement and skin tones, I'm pretty sure the linux drivers won't support those.

I never thought of those parameters.. Thanks for telling Smile

Gravediggaz · 2012-08-04 19:25

this looks great!

blos · 2012-08-05 08:53

Oh btw I got the WoL to work so now the box boots up nicely from the Android app Smile

This MB has really impressed me

blos Junior Member Posts: 8 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-07-31 13:11 Post: #11 (2012-07-31 04:51)Mallet21 Wrote: What are your temps? Just came home so installed coretemp and left it in the background when watching some LoTR BR remuxes and other high-bitrate content. Cores went all the way to 70C Edit: Ambients were around 30C (This post was last modified: 2012-07-31 13:11 by blos.)
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solamnic Fan Posts: 353 Joined: Jul 2009 Reputation: 0	2012-07-31 15:03 Post: #12 Isnt 70 a bit toooooooo much?
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Dougie Fresh Member+ Posts: 2,345 Joined: Feb 2009 Reputation: 49 Location: New Hampshire	2012-07-31 16:17 Post: #13 It's the tradeoff you make for having a small and quiet system. As long as nothing melts you're good. I have to imagine a laptop is a more hostile environment than that little case. --- Blog: http://outsidethestb.blogspot.com Website: http://www.ecosmartpc.com Looking for these? Realan E-i5, Realan E-i7, IWill HT80, IWill HT100, IWill S197-H80
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Beer40oz Member+ Posts: 2,214 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 53 Location: The Moon	2012-07-31 16:35 Post: #14 Cool case.... thanx. "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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solamnic Fan Posts: 353 Joined: Jul 2009 Reputation: 0	2012-07-31 16:42 Post: #15 Dont know if the new ivy i3 are cooler.. I must admit that i really like the looks of the case.. Btw r u using windows 7 or openelec? Which remote u use btw? (This post was last modified: 2012-07-31 16:43 by solamnic.)
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solamnic Fan Posts: 353 Joined: Jul 2009 Reputation: 0	2012-08-01 08:10 Post: #18 (2012-08-01 03:45)blos Wrote: It's win7... I'd rather use ubuntu as the backend but I need my bitstreaming audio Also the intel drivers seem to do a decent job with the local contrast enhancement and skin tones, I'm pretty sure the linux drivers won't support those. I never thought of those parameters.. Thanks for telling
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Gravediggaz Junior Member Posts: 45 Joined: Jul 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-08-04 19:25 Post: #19 this looks great!
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blos Junior Member Posts: 8 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-08-05 08:53 Post: #20 Oh btw I got the WoL to work so now the box boots up nicely from the Android app This MB has really impressed me
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