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I've been playing around my setup past few weeks and is now somewhat different from before. Though the equipments remain the same. The major changes are that I moved my rack under my desk rather than above and I've added Saitek A-250 wireless speaker that replaced my plain white cheapass speakers that I had before.

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Wireless stereo speaker.

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My next plan (Hopefully) is build a mini-ITX 1U rackmount (to act as a NAS as well as a file server) and purchasing a Linksys RV082 (To set up more advanced firewall as well as VPN) which is rackmountable. Then my rack would be complete.

^ What is the picture quality like on the Sony LCD ?

Some reviews said they are not the best but I like the looks of them

I had to return few moniters before I came across that sony LCD.

I like it, especially the backlight feature. It's different from brightness. (The monitor has both features, backlight and brightess.)However, the monitor is not recommended for super-bright room as its display tends to reflect light.

It looks stylish compared to the dell monitor I have next to.

I've been using it for around a year now. No problems so far.

kakari, what make is your rack and rack cases?

Rack is made by Middle Atlantic.

The brand name for the rack is "Middle Atlantic slim-5 series #".

# is how many U it has.

So, mine'd be Middle Atlantic slim-5 series 8. (8U).

It took long time for me to find that rack chassis. I needed something that looks half-decent enough to have it at home. Most rack chassises are ugly as hell.

The chassis is manufactured by Enermax, (You probably recognize Enermax by PSU.) and, for some odd reasons, those cases seem to be sold exclusively only by Sundialmicro. (http://www.sundialmicro.com/IPC-Rackmount-Cases-Maxpoint_1784.html)

It follows IPC rack standard.

Mind ya, those are costy. But really well constructed. One of the best build quality, I've come acorss.

Here is how it looked before I made the case/monitor upgrades (from a CRT syncmaster 750st to a LCD 930B)

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I went from an horrible orange theme to my new Black look

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A closer look at the case (just bought the wired 360 controller for emulator use)

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The Samsung SyncMaster 930B (17" 1280x1024)

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My Laptop 3 years old Sony GRT170 (P4 2.8 16.1" crappy FX5600GO)

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My "gadgets" Toshiba PocketPC e405 and my new ZEN vision:M (best thing i bought in years)

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The top of my desk my 2WIRE DSL modem and old ATI VGAWonder i recued and some stuff

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My TV

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my bed and misc stuff

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BTW sorry for the crappoy camera and the long post

Well my office is almost finished. I painted it, hung crown molding, etc... I bought two new desk sets. Still a work in progress but here it is....

Macbook Pro & PC

Pc, printers etc...

Dual Core Intel iMac

Onther Pc etc shot

Pc close up

Desktop close up

A different view

Macbook Pro close up

Hope you like... I do.

It is a tsunami case :) not thermaltake tsunami but tsunami tsunami, lol.

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Whoa, I have the exact same case, in silver though. Never seen another like it. Bought it custom built from a company called Komputer Krazy. Came with tsunami keyboard, speakers and mouse lol. Here's a pic (sorry for quality)

Mine is all old and based now though :(

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MRK, I always love seeing your pictures, such a great camera. I noticed both your hard drives are SATA, did you have any issues installing XP on a SATA drive as your primary? I'm hesitant to upgrade from my trusty PATA drives, but will be building a new computer soon, and was thinking I should probably go SATA all teh way this time.

Well my office is almost finished. I painted it, hung crown molding, etc... I bought two new desk sets. Still a work in progress but here it is....

Macbook Pro & PC

Pc, printers etc...

Dual Core Intel iMac

Onther Pc etc shot

Pc close up

Desktop close up

A different view

Macbook Pro close up

Hope you like... I do.

How do you like that macbook pro man? is it the small or big one?

I have installed XP on numerous SATA drives, and I've never had a single issue with it.

I have. If you have an old XP Disc, it doesn't have SATA drivers. I also didn't have a floppy drive, so I couldn't install XP on my SATA drive. I had to use my IDE one.

Does anyone know if you can put drivers on a USB drive? I didn't think of it at the time.

This is getting very Off Topic now,

to answer you , you can use nlite from http://www.nliteos.com/ to slipstream drives (textmode) for your sata or raid controller into your windows XP install,

You cant use a USB drive though.

If you need to discuss this more please create a thread, or search for other threads on this topic.

Whoa, I have the exact same case, in silver though. Never seen another like it. Bought it custom built from a company called Komputer Krazy. Came with tsunami keyboard, speakers and mouse lol. Here's a pic (sorry for quality)

Mine is all old and based now though :(

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:laugh: my dad got the same case as mine around about the same time but his bays are silver (unmodded) - neat seeing someone else online with the same case heh

MRK, I always love seeing your pictures, such a great camera. I noticed both your hard drives are SATA, did you have any issues installing XP on a SATA drive as your primary? I'm hesitant to upgrade from my trusty PATA drives, but will be building a new computer soon, and was thinking I should probably go SATA all teh way this time.

It depends on the motherboard you have, some allow you to set the SATA ports as IDE ports so the sata drive connected to each port is handled like a normal PATA drive whilst performing to SATA standard - not all mobos have this but mine did (Abit KW7) so I used that and no SATA drivers were needed at all during ninstall. I like the thinner wires and easier management + NCQ support.

It depends on the motherboard you have, some allow you to set the SATA ports as IDE ports so the sata drive connected to each port is handled like a normal PATA drive whilst performing to SATA standard - not all mobos have this but mine did (Abit KW7) so I used that and no SATA drivers were needed at all during ninstall. I like the thinner wires and easier management + NCQ support.

I believe the SATA ports on nForce4-based boards are all like that.

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