My home computer continued...

By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (91 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 11:20 am

Ok, so I worked a lot to get my dream entertainment computer up and running. I am not a gamer, but I also don't like to watch live television and need a home server for backups, keepings my files and doing a bunch of other things. Now that I built it, I going to brag about it a little on my blog. Of course, I can do so because not only does it use some of Intel best technologies, it also includes Intel AMT 3.0.

I started out with an Intel DQ35JO motherboard, a Intel Core 2 QUAD processor, 4 hard disks, 3 gigs of RAM, 2 DVD recorders, an NVidia 6600 fan less video card, Hauppauge dual NTSC tuner and an HDHomerun dual ATSC tuner. All together, it's a great machine.

Probably the two biggest performance highlights of the system is the processor and the 4 hard disks in RAID5 configuration. I never had a RAID before and I am quite impressed. RAID comes built into the motherboard, just plug the hard disks and about 5 minutes of setup will get you going. Microsoft Vista RC1 includes the Intel RAID drivers in the setup disk so, starting with RC1 it's really easy.

One of the problems I ran into was the computer going into S3 state and hanging on a black screen when waking up. Many people face the same problem all over the Internet, in my case, the very latest Intel BIOS update did the trick. I will have to thank the guys releasing the Intel BIOS next time I see them, some of them at here in Oregon.

The weakest part of my computer is certainly the video card. I get top scores in Microsoft Vista's scoring for everything except the video card. Also, getting an HDCP compliant video card and BlueRay would also be cool at some point.

What makes this computer special for me of course is AMT 3.0... actually AMT 3.2 to be precise. This new update to Intel AMT offers improved WSMAN support but I have not tested it yet with the DTK and so, expect to start working on it now.

Of course, you can see me talk about my computer on this YouTube video.

Ylian

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Categories: Manageability

Comments (4)

April 22, 2008 9:36 PM PDT


IntelSucks		 Hot cpu sucks = Intel sucks

Helps to global warming :)
April 28, 2008 9:33 AM PDT

Bill Pearson (Intel)
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 These looks like an awesome system Ylian. I just built a new Core 2 machine also. Mine is not nearly as fancy as this one though.
April 28, 2008 2:34 PM PDT

Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel)
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 LOL. Josh, I am going to forward your comment to the girlfriend holding the camera. On the topic of heat, I should find pictures of my old computer before I had the Core 2, it was a Pentium 4 Smithfield with a huge water cooling tank behind the TV. General tip: Avoid showing off your huge computer cooling tank on dates (smile).
April 28, 2008 3:40 PM PDT

Michael Shadle (Intel)
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 I built a new one a couple months ago.

Shuttle XPC SG33G5M Deluxe with gigabit LAN, bluetooth, onboard graphics, sound, (onboard everything) with a Q6700 quad-core, 4GB RAM, an SATA DVD-RW/CDRW and a 1TB Seagate SATA drive. It's compact, quiet, and powerful. I love it.

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