20071006-08 - building Hades - 139-3907 - motherboard (Abit IP35 Pro) - ports view
This motherboard had more stuff built in than any I've ever used. TWO ethernet ports, built-in optical digital audio out (for clean music with no ground loop buzz!), SIX on-board SATA harddrive ports (that's 4.5TB if you use 750G drives!), 4 PCI slots, and 2 PCI express slots (1 of which was tiny). It also has eSATA (external SATA) connectors for at least 2 more drives. I also think the heat sink design is pretty neat.
It also has 6-speaker mini-jack output, but since I'm using optical audio I ultimatley wont be using these. (I'm using just one of these outputs now, as the stereo upstiars is my dad's 1970s unit. Must buy real home theatre receiver soon.)
BACKSTORY: So, as mentioned before (in a 10-part series of blog posts), my trusty computer of 9 years, "Storm", died a nasty death. My secondary/kitchen computer "Hell" stepped up to bat and took Storm's place, but I still needed a new computer for our somewhat newly-built upstairs space. So I built Hades, during which I wrote another 5 blog posts. These are the pictures I took while building it.
building computer.
Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, ports.
Hades. close-up.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 6, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
A run-down of all parts in my new computer, with links to buy them, can be found here: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/journal-hardware-purcha...
20071006-08 - building Hades - 139-3907 - motherboard (Abit IP35 Pro) - ports view
This motherboard had more stuff built in than any I've ever used. TWO ethernet ports, built-in optical digital audio out (for clean music with no ground loop buzz!), SIX on-board SATA harddrive ports (that's 4.5TB if you use 750G drives!), 4 PCI slots, and 2 PCI express slots (1 of which was tiny). It also has eSATA (external SATA) connectors for at least 2 more drives. I also think the heat sink design is pretty neat.
It also has 6-speaker mini-jack output, but since I'm using optical audio I ultimatley wont be using these. (I'm using just one of these outputs now, as the stereo upstiars is my dad's 1970s unit. Must buy real home theatre receiver soon.)
BACKSTORY: So, as mentioned before (in a 10-part series of blog posts), my trusty computer of 9 years, "Storm", died a nasty death. My secondary/kitchen computer "Hell" stepped up to bat and took Storm's place, but I still needed a new computer for our somewhat newly-built upstairs space. So I built Hades, during which I wrote another 5 blog posts. These are the pictures I took while building it.
building computer.
Abit IP35 Pro motherboard, ports.
Hades. close-up.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 6, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
A run-down of all parts in my new computer, with links to buy them, can be found here: clintjcl.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/journal-hardware-purcha...