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Frank S.

Frank S.

Joined on 03/27/06

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Works great.

Foxconn nt-A3500-0h0WWAEQB AMD A45 (Hudson D1) White Mini / Booksize Barebone System
Foxconn nt-A3500-0h0WWAEQB AMD A45 (Hudson D1) White Mini / Booksize Barebone System

Pros: Very small, boots quickly, very compact.

Cons: Works well for interactive use, computationally heavy jobs are not it's forte. Installing Updates (a multi-hour job from the Win7 RTM release I was starting with) would peg the CPU at 100% multiple times during the process.

Overall Review: This is for the Foxconn nt-A3500-0h0WWAEQB. Got it up and running with Win 7 x64 with few issues (note: if you're going to install off a Flash drive, don't use the front USB ports - they're USB 3.0, and the Win7 DVD doesn't have drivers for them. You'll get partway through installation, and get a "No drivers found" error that you can't get past. Use the rear ports). Also, I installed an 8GB memory stick, Win 7 sees it just fine and runs great with it. You're not limited to 4 GB. I haven't tried running video through it, but based on other comments I expect it to work fine.

Perfect

ASRock Q1900DC-ITX Intel Celeron J1900 Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo
ASRock Q1900DC-ITX Intel Celeron J1900 Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo

Pros: Passive heatsink for a low power system. Installed FreeNas on it (using UFS, not ZFS), and it's running flawlessly. Works fine on a 12VDC input.

Cons: Frankly, none. It does exactly what I expected it would do.

11/14/2014

Follow up

Foxconn nt-A3500-0h0WWAEQB AMD A45 (Hudson D1) White Mini / Booksize Barebone System
Foxconn nt-A3500-0h0WWAEQB AMD A45 (Hudson D1) White Mini / Booksize Barebone System

Pros: Same as before

Cons: Not a processing powerhouse

Overall Review: Update after using it for a month. Got XBMC installed a couple of weeks ago, and this works great as an HTPC. I've run numerous videos encoded in various ways through it, and it's handled them all flawlessly at 1080p on the big screen. I had a problem with the device not responding for 30 seconds or so at a time; I updated the Ethernet driver from the Realtek site and everything was resolved. My wife loves it.

Great box

HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Tower Server System Intel Core i3-540 (2 core, 3.06 GHz) 2GB DDR3 250GB LFF 597557-005
HP ProLiant ML110 G6 Tower Server System Intel Core i3-540 (2 core, 3.06 GHz) 2GB DDR3 250GB LFF 597557-005

Pros: This is a solid box, easy to work in, and quiet (well, after the 5 second blast on power up)

Cons: Two SATA ports are Optical only - can't attach a hard disk.

Overall Review: This is for the ML110 G6. Got this to build a couple little NAS boxes for the office. Really easy to install four hard disks into from the front. There are two bays for Optical drives. Four memory slots; the specs say they're limited to 2GB sticks; I didn't try anything bigger. I plugged in 4 for an 8GB box. There are six SATA power plugs, and six SATA ports on the motherboard. Only four of the ports will support a hard disk; the other two are optical only. I plugged a hard disk into one of the optical ports; it's identified and actually passes Seagate diagnostics, but attempts to write to it fail. Other than that, there's nothing really remarkable about it.

Not Bad

Eagle Tech Black Aluminum CA-EC2 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case
Eagle Tech Black Aluminum CA-EC2 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case

Pros: Looks good Full ATX board support Takes standard power supply

Cons: - Old-skool power supply - lots of 5V, but only 20A of 12V on one rail. No overclocked X2's with 8800GTS cards! - Parallel port connection for VFD display. Too bad my new mobo doesn't have a parallel port! - Its Big!

Overall Review: Mostly Aluminum construction, interesting duct for the power supply exhaust. Not the world's best construction (some small fiddly screws threaded into thin aluminum), but for $40, it'd be real hard to beat.