AgentPaper
From the depths, I come.
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I've been tasked with building new computers for everyone here at the office, since the current ones are starting to...show their age, to say the least. Anyways, as a rock-bottom bargain starting point, I came up with the following build:
Case/PSU: APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply
Motherboard/CPU: ASRock E35LM1 AMD E-240 APU AMD A50M Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
RAM*: Pareema 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model MD313C81609L1
HDD: Western Digital WD Blue WD3200AAKX 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
HDD*: Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
CD Drive: SONY Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1681S-0B - OEM
Total: 202.45 - 234.94
Are all of these components compatible? From what I can tell, there should be just enough power/slots/plugs/etc for everything here, but I'm not experienced enough to say for certain.
Probably my main concern would be cooling, and the power supply. As far as I can tell, the case has no fan, so it'd be just the fan that's on the CPU. I'm not even sure if there's room to add a fan to the case, so I may need to change to a larger case? These need to be able to run all day long. The case also comes with a 250W power supply, which seems like it should be enough, but I can't figure out how to calculate how much power I actually need for these components.
* Optionally, if necessary, some of the computers might be upgraded with a second RAM of the same kind, and/or the larger HDD, so these would need to be compatible too.
Case/PSU: APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply
Motherboard/CPU: ASRock E35LM1 AMD E-240 APU AMD A50M Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
RAM*: Pareema 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model MD313C81609L1
HDD: Western Digital WD Blue WD3200AAKX 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
HDD*: Seagate Barracuda Green ST1500DL003 1.5TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
CD Drive: SONY Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1681S-0B - OEM
Total: 202.45 - 234.94
Are all of these components compatible? From what I can tell, there should be just enough power/slots/plugs/etc for everything here, but I'm not experienced enough to say for certain.
Probably my main concern would be cooling, and the power supply. As far as I can tell, the case has no fan, so it'd be just the fan that's on the CPU. I'm not even sure if there's room to add a fan to the case, so I may need to change to a larger case? These need to be able to run all day long. The case also comes with a 250W power supply, which seems like it should be enough, but I can't figure out how to calculate how much power I actually need for these components.
* Optionally, if necessary, some of the computers might be upgraded with a second RAM of the same kind, and/or the larger HDD, so these would need to be compatible too.