Hey guys, after getting an upgrade to my skelly build, I was left with my old motherboard, cpu and ram and decided that I wanted to do a htpc that I could have in my room, was silent and could do some light gaming in bed when I feel lazy. Thus Project R3s was born I'll explain the title first, then list the components. 'R3' represents the Fractal R3 arctic white that the project is centred around, the 's' stands for stealth, not stealth in the conventional sense of all matt black, but more sleek, silence. I'm warning you now, I got bored and decided to include this duck in the first set of pics: duck by Kieran Horne, on Flickr on with the spec....... i3 540 prolimatech megahalems (run passively) msi p55a-g55 4gb of corsair xms3 1600mhz ram zotac gtx260 216 core wd caviar black 640gb hdd ocz modxstream pro 500w sony dvd drive - the only time I'll have a dvd drive in a rig and, of course, the fractal design r3 arctic white here are some pics of what I have so far (just waiting on the case and graphics card) components by Kieran Horne, on Flickr psu and hdd by Kieran Horne, on Flickr this pic isn't so good but meh megahalems by Kieran Horne, on Flickr mobo and cpu by Kieran Horne, on Flickr cooler fitted by Kieran Horne, on Flickr ram by Kieran Horne, on Flickr so far, I'm planning to: Hopefully, wrap the case in white carbon fibre vinyl replace the dvd drive with a bluray drive replace the hdd with an ssd, and make a file server/get a nas maybe replace the stock power led (red) with an orange one so far, I'm not planning on watercooling, but that's not 100% also if I do watercool, then that'll mean a sidepanel window I hope you guys like....
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I have, I do have my other project on here, anyways My graphics card arrived around an hour or so ago, it's freaking massive!!! I thought it'd be about the same size as my gtx 460, it's about 2" bigger! 020 by Kieran Horne, on Flickr
