- #WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT DRIVERS#
- #WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT UPDATE#
- #WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT UPGRADE#
The 9800GT is a beast for a low profile card - Silent and FAST! - but requires a lot of power, and creates a lot of heat. I personally believe the image quality on the 9500GS is slightly better than the image quality on the 8500GT on my HDTV. The 9500GS is a okay gaming card(preforms about like an 8600GT), and a good home theatre card. The 9300GS is underpowered for gaming, but good for home theatre use.
So if you get this card make sure your slimline has adequate ventilation. The 8600GT from Galaxy has questionable build quality - there were a couple guys who've posted that they had the plastic heatsink/fan melt on the card due to the heat generated in the slimline chasis. The 8500GT is okay, fairly quiet, and is a good compromise card.
The 8400GS is underpowered for gaming but is great in fanless configuration for home theatre use. I have personally owned the following cards and used each of them in a Slimline. Jeremyshaw has some real good GPU information on page 169. Just utilize the ATI 4550 if you just want a HTPC with the stock PSU. I personally found a 40 watt video card (the 8400GS) proved too much power draw for my stock 160 watt PSU over the course of time.
#WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT UPGRADE#
Plan on limiting your GPU upgrade to a card that draws less than 40 watts if you want to stay within the stock PSU capabilities. A 9600GT or 9800GT card absolutely requries a PSU replacement. Moving to a low power AMD CPU, (as discussed above) or replacing the power supply seems to remediate the issue. I strongly recommend the 4550 as a good HTPC card based on fellow thread memeber's expieriences - it utilzes very little power (30 watts max) and is fast! * Note: over the course of time - a few people have found their systems becoming unstable with video cards over 40 watts with the stock PSUs even if they worked at first - especially the 160 watt PSU AMD based slimlines. I would advise a power supply upgrade for the following video card choices (>40 watt power GPU power requirement) 8400GS, 8500GT, 8600GT, 9500GS, 9600GT, 9800GT, or the GTS250. The Slimlines support any low profile half height card that works within the 160 and 180 watt PSU limitations.
#WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT UPDATE#
A few of the slimlines have Intel quad 9300 processors in them - with a 2009 BIOS UPDATE 5.23 for the IRVINE motherboards you should be able to use a Q9300 in any IRVINE motherboard - but to my knowledge this is untested since the BIOS update - if this is verified please let me know and I will update this. The Intel based slimlines work with any of the e2, e4, and e6 based processors that end in 00's.Some of these processor upgrades will require BIOS updates. The AMD slimlines using the M2N61-AR (Acacia-GL6E) motherboards will even support EE phenom quadcores following a BIOS udpate. The 4850e (2.5Ghz) and 5050e (2.6Ghz) 45 watt processors are supported at least by the Asus A8MN-BR / Hematite-GL8E mobo after upgrading to the the May 08 bios update as verified by poster C-Numb. Most AMD based slimlines supports any AMD X2 65 watt processor (meaning you can upgrade to a X2 5600+) and more preferably for HTPC use, a BE-2300, BE-2350, or BE-2400. Through reading and collaboration online the slimline community has found multiple important upgrade notes.
#WHATS THE BIGGEST HARD DRIVE THE ASUS M2N61 AR SUPPORT DRIVERS#
Most of these units have drivers for Windows XP and soon to be windows 7- if preferred. The Windows Media Center application on Vista is quite good for HTPC use. They come with Vista Home Premium which would cost $100 by itself. These PCs are nice little classy piano black glossy small form factor machines that fit right in with home theatre equipment. Stats on a s3600t I purchased at ubid for $350 shipped.
Stats on a s3200t I purchased were the "best" $1500 configuation and I only paid $330 shipped for it on ubid. The link below is a link to all the various HP slimline product pages.Īn example s3020n (my first slimline purchase) I purchased for about $350 from buy.com had I've purchased nearly a dozen refurbished slimlines encompassing several different models from buy.com and There are quite a few different slimline models and they all have different specs - many have different motherboards, be careful on the slimline you select to ensure it has the upgradability you desire. If you are lucky you can get a slimline decked out in a $1500 dollar fully loaded configuration for $300. The hotspot to to pick up these machines is
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