320GB WD Hard drive, my choice of chassis and Fiber Optics for the HTPC
It’s been 2 weeks since my last thought of installing my 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS on to my HTPC.
I bought the hard drive on October 19 and it still in a wrapper semi naked with sticker tagged. It’s really pain in the ass when you work with mid tower, you don’t have enough room for good air flow when you put in all the components.
I like to buy a new full tower chassis or a HTPC chassis but than again it’s not really necessary for now.
As shown in the photos, my chassis has a limited room to work with for better air flow.
The above is my favorite chassis. In order to install my new WD hard drive I was forced to take out the graphic card, 4 GB of RAM, IDE cable and power cable.
Computer Chassis
What do you think of these selection of Chassis?
Antec P182SE Advanced Super Mid Tower – Mirror Look
Cooler Master Stacker 830 Evolution – Nvidia Edition
Lian Li Pc-c32a
Fiber Optics for my HTPC
Have you seen a fiber-optics cable before?
I have had optic cable from my Creative Sound decoder DDTS-100 for almost 3 years before I get to use it.
Motherboard equipped with optical support is expensive and only available on high end Motherboard! (and very limited)
Fortunately these days motherboard spotting optical supports are in a reasonable price example my Gigabyte board.
Good reason to use fiber optics — less signal degradation means good crisp, clean sounds and loss less on signal/data.
Upgraded RAM to 4GB for Vista
In general it is recommended a minimum of 4GB of RAM for Vista. I have upgraded and the results are enormous!
I have 2 GB of RAM before this — running program like Firefox, MSN, Windows Media center, Words, Picasa2, AVG, Scotty, windows sidebar etc… while idling the RAM usage was more than 50%.
With 4GB of RAM, My HTPC now uses 2GB of RAM and leaving another 50% running free. I’m happy with the performance, Window Media Center jerking no more.
7 responses to “HTPC with Fiber Optics & WD 320GB HDD”
Ivan,
Hello nice to meet you 🙂 thanks for dropping by and am glad you will be back heheheheh 😉
cheers!
Hi, my name is disman-kl, i like your site and i ll be back 😉
Ang Moh,
ohh you don’t know is it hahahaha. Some more you got DS6 oh! P35 board ah? so rich!
Me not much of a gamer! I play game once a year LOL. My GT6600 & GT8500 graphic card comes with games and i don’t play them at all. in total i think i got 4 original full features games that i don’t play (I know, it’s a waste on me!) I try try on Warhammer dawn of War… kinda cool lo… So i recommend that to you 🙂 (I think you played dy la)
for you last question… I can’t believe you are staying alone! Sure bo? I can’t have open case concept for my PC. You are running on C2D right? why so hot? can not be ohhh… one tips for you… go get voltage stabilizer to spread the warm! over time your PC was injected with over voltage from your main socket and it will shorten your PC life.
aspect saliva drop right onto the Mobo for open case concept! hahahahhaaha you know la kids!
Cheers pal!
Oh so that is what optical output is use for! I have that blinking red light output on my mummyboard! Gigabyte DS6. I have 4gb ram on board! My pc is for playing game wan! Any startegy game to recommend???
Comp casing? I am thinking of doing a DIY open casing as it get very hot inside! My living room no air-con wan!
Have a nice day!
Eric Lee,
me change got inform ne :)I sms your darling that day look for people to work as admin. send to your phone also fail wat! you change phone also ah? you can get from your darling hehehehe! I go lunch with Dennis last week. He’s in need of gf hahahhahaha she can’t stop looking at errr LOL Call me la for lunch also can… 🙂
Keeyit,
hehehehe headache meh? only headache not enough money to buy more hahahahaha
I’m still looking for nice and cool computer case… so hard to look for nice and cheap one. *sign*
Headache to see those computer accessories.. hehehe..
Yoyo… u change ur handphone again??? Pls give me ur HP pls… By the way.. ur HTCP so cooollll…. 🙂