- Joined
- Jan 20, 2004
- Location
- Saltirelandia
Our little home office is in need of some new gear and as many of you know I like to build these things myself.
First up is a 2nd (basic) workstation for my wife and she says it's gotta be "very small and very quiet". If I could find a NUC that would let me socket in my own i5/i7 CPU I'd probably go for it but I haven't found such so something along these lines or thereabouts is looking good:
I'm an Intel guy so the i5-5675c or i7-5775c appeal to me because they've got the Iris Pro 6200 iGPU which has a good bit of graphics muscle, plenty I think for her needs, and let's me forget about a graphics card, serious cooling, fancy fans, etc.
8Gb of RAM and a decent SSD and she's off to the races. Job done .. I think. Thoughts?
The second unit is for me and needs to use a spare Pentium Anniversary G3258 I have kicking around. Prob not the processor for life in this 2nd box but it's what I'll use for now. Here I'm thinking an HTPC case because there are a few boards I want to try (USB3.1 Type-C, etc). The Silverstone Ravens look good and will shove off well to the side of a desk:
As you can see from the rear view of that case they use an adapter board to lay your PCIe add-ons on their side:
Helps keep everything nice and flat, avoids the Cube thing that most mini-ITX builds go for.
Any thoughts, recommendations for much-loved components, etc? No idea which mITX board I'd use in the Raven so any thoughts there would be appreciated.
Caveats? Suggestions? "WTF dude! Don't do X"? Bring 'em on!
First up is a 2nd (basic) workstation for my wife and she says it's gotta be "very small and very quiet". If I could find a NUC that would let me socket in my own i5/i7 CPU I'd probably go for it but I haven't found such so something along these lines or thereabouts is looking good:
I'm an Intel guy so the i5-5675c or i7-5775c appeal to me because they've got the Iris Pro 6200 iGPU which has a good bit of graphics muscle, plenty I think for her needs, and let's me forget about a graphics card, serious cooling, fancy fans, etc.
8Gb of RAM and a decent SSD and she's off to the races. Job done .. I think. Thoughts?
The second unit is for me and needs to use a spare Pentium Anniversary G3258 I have kicking around. Prob not the processor for life in this 2nd box but it's what I'll use for now. Here I'm thinking an HTPC case because there are a few boards I want to try (USB3.1 Type-C, etc). The Silverstone Ravens look good and will shove off well to the side of a desk:
As you can see from the rear view of that case they use an adapter board to lay your PCIe add-ons on their side:
Helps keep everything nice and flat, avoids the Cube thing that most mini-ITX builds go for.
Any thoughts, recommendations for much-loved components, etc? No idea which mITX board I'd use in the Raven so any thoughts there would be appreciated.
Caveats? Suggestions? "WTF dude! Don't do X"? Bring 'em on!