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So having got a bit fed up with my little Dell netbook sitting on the window sill with the 360R software on it and a second old laptop in the window alcove with the wxsat software on it Ive decided to bite the bullet and set up a solitary midi tower which will hopefully combine the two rigs. This has to be done as cheaply as possible so Ive been raiding my bits boxes, old hard drives and derelict old computers towers to see what salvageable.
An Asus mini motherboard with an i3 processor looks promising, and Ive found 8GB of ram to put in it. It powers up find and to begin with Ive found a 500GB hdd to pair with it. The old cases are over 10 years old, battered and Ive decided to buy a cheap case to mount this in. I had been hoping to reuse an old Dell 5150 tower but I discovered that it doesnt have the motherboard rectangular "cutout" for the ports - its only got holes stamped through the chassis - so no fitting a different motherboard in it :-(
Im also wanting to mount as much of the sdr gubbins as possible internally and Ive got a semi half baked idea for that which I will detail later..
The new case is a CTI Goblin - 30 quid from Amazon
There is a new power supply on order as the old ones are all very tired The case doesnt have the side green led fan on it as bought (thank goodness!) but I'll be putting a fan in the side or the back to improve airflow (from the junk box if I can find a suitably quiet one in there) Pics to follow of the build much as Vipersan did a couple of years ago. Still awaiting bits to arrive so the project will stretch out over the next couple of weeks or so.
An Asus mini motherboard with an i3 processor looks promising, and Ive found 8GB of ram to put in it. It powers up find and to begin with Ive found a 500GB hdd to pair with it. The old cases are over 10 years old, battered and Ive decided to buy a cheap case to mount this in. I had been hoping to reuse an old Dell 5150 tower but I discovered that it doesnt have the motherboard rectangular "cutout" for the ports - its only got holes stamped through the chassis - so no fitting a different motherboard in it :-(
Im also wanting to mount as much of the sdr gubbins as possible internally and Ive got a semi half baked idea for that which I will detail later..
The new case is a CTI Goblin - 30 quid from Amazon
There is a new power supply on order as the old ones are all very tired The case doesnt have the side green led fan on it as bought (thank goodness!) but I'll be putting a fan in the side or the back to improve airflow (from the junk box if I can find a suitably quiet one in there) Pics to follow of the build much as Vipersan did a couple of years ago. Still awaiting bits to arrive so the project will stretch out over the next couple of weeks or so.
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