- Jul 7, 2009
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So i went out a couple of years ago and spent around $300 on a HTPC Case (Chieftec HiFi HM-02B) http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Chieftec/Hi_Fi_Series_HM_02B/ I love absolutely everything about the case and here is my dilemma, i had a motherboard going on the fritz and it was just not worth the hassle so i decided to check out a Fusion based FM1 Configuration. I picked up the following:
AMD A8-3850 Llano 2.9GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942
GIGABYTE GA-A75M-D2H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128517
Muskin DDR3 8GB (2x4GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226178
So i think that i'm bummed about my decision or i need to miraculously discover a mfg defect with this motherboard because $20 more i could've had a full ATX board. This is the first MicroATX Motherboard and how wonderful, it has USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports on the back, but inside there is only a single USB Header. I have the full 9-pin (2rows of 5 with one blank in a corner) for a front USB port/Card Reader and then a 5-pin port for the wonderful VFD Screen which with along the look of a real home theater Receiver, is the main reasons i initially chose this case. So what i'm wondering is this: Do i try to carefully pull the pins out of both of these devices, and combine them into a single 9-pin header? or do they make a small Internal USB Header "Y" or Splitter? I would much rather go this route than to potentially mess up the cables, shortening them if not destroying them. Any ideas/recommendations greatly appreciated!
Thank You in advance,
And for anyone reading this, trying to decide on a Llano based system, i absolutely LOVE it. I "upgraded" a Phenom Tri Core 8650 with Geforce 8500 on Asus M2n32-SLI-Premium with this and dont know what official benchmarks would show but i absolutely cannot feel a difference in power. Its definitely not slower and possibly faster in many aspects. I even tossed my Vertex2 120GB SSD in to use as a boot drive to speed things up a bit
AMD A8-3850 Llano 2.9GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103942
GIGABYTE GA-A75M-D2H http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128517
Muskin DDR3 8GB (2x4GB) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226178
So i think that i'm bummed about my decision or i need to miraculously discover a mfg defect with this motherboard because $20 more i could've had a full ATX board. This is the first MicroATX Motherboard and how wonderful, it has USB2.0 and USB3.0 ports on the back, but inside there is only a single USB Header. I have the full 9-pin (2rows of 5 with one blank in a corner) for a front USB port/Card Reader and then a 5-pin port for the wonderful VFD Screen which with along the look of a real home theater Receiver, is the main reasons i initially chose this case. So what i'm wondering is this: Do i try to carefully pull the pins out of both of these devices, and combine them into a single 9-pin header? or do they make a small Internal USB Header "Y" or Splitter? I would much rather go this route than to potentially mess up the cables, shortening them if not destroying them. Any ideas/recommendations greatly appreciated!
Thank You in advance,
And for anyone reading this, trying to decide on a Llano based system, i absolutely LOVE it. I "upgraded" a Phenom Tri Core 8650 with Geforce 8500 on Asus M2n32-SLI-Premium with this and dont know what official benchmarks would show but i absolutely cannot feel a difference in power. Its definitely not slower and possibly faster in many aspects. I even tossed my Vertex2 120GB SSD in to use as a boot drive to speed things up a bit
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