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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 on it. It’s really pain in the ass when you work with mid tower, you don’t have much room to make sure a good air flow. I like to buy a new full tower chas­sis or a HTPC chas­sis but than again it’s not really nec­es­sary. Hehehe I can get really con­fuse between what’s “need” and what’s “want” in this sce­nario. I’m a HTPC enthu­si­ast there­fore get­ting the best for HTPC is a “need” LOL

As shown in the pho­tos, my chas­sis has a lim­ited room to work with for bet­ter air flow.

My cur­rent chas­sis is my favorite case how­ever after con­sid­er­ing attach­ing one more hard disk I than real­ize that my hard disk would be in sand­wich and in order to put in one more hard disk I need to take out/pull out my graphic card, 4 GB of RAM, IDE cable and power cable. Man! I’m lazy for that… (damn chik ak!) Here’s my choice, don’t know what you think about them?
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Any­way, have you heard that com­puter enthu­si­ast actu­ally rec­om­mended min­i­mum 4GB of RAM for Vista? I’m afraid they are right although MS min­i­mum rec­om­men­da­tion is 2GB of RAM! The results are enor­mous! I nor­mally work with Fire­fox, MSN, Win­dows Media cen­ter, Words, Picasa2, and pro­grams idling on my task bar (AVG, Scotty, win­dows side­bar etc…) the RAM usage on 2GB is at 50% looks okay right? No, wrong! After I slot in my new RAM and mak­ing it to 4GB… the same pro­grams run­ning and now the RAM usage is 50%! My PC actu­ally uses 2GB of RAM instead of 1GB and I’m happy my Win­dow Media Cen­ter jerk­ing no more!

Now, here’s some­thing inter­est­ing! Have you seen a fiber-optics cable before? Most mod­ern town today is laid with fiber-optics cable under­neath the build­ings. How­ever you prob­a­bly won’t real­ize it and you may mis­take it as a cop­per wire that hang­ing around the “Tiang” (tele­phone post). It’s still true that most part of the town is cop­per wire in use.

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.

Two good rea­son to use fiber optics… One, less sig­nal degra­da­tion (impor­tant! if you want good crisp, clean sounds and loss less on signal/data) and two, it will not cause fire! (No elec­tric­ity is pass­ing through fiber optics!)

Like in my many post, I love to men­tion this “you just can’t catch up!” unless of course you’re crazy enough to invest on new tech­nol­ogy that triple the price. (I waited 3 years to finally get a rea­son­able price of moth­er­board to pam­per my dig­i­tal thirst)

In the mean time, I’m still look­ing for the right com­puter chas­sis.

1. Antec P182SE Advanced Super Mid Tower — Mir­ror Look [↩]
2. Cooler Mas­ter Cos­mos 1000 Ulti­mate Atx Cas­ing [↩]
3. Cooler Mas­ter Stacker 830 Evo­lu­tion — Nvidia Edi­tion [↩]
4. Lian Li Pc-c32a [↩]

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