Nemosis II
Your silent PC dream comes true

     

This custom built PC uses only high quality and performent parts. The motivation behind it was to create silencious PC using the highest quality components from previous-generation platform in order to create a low-cost yet powerful machine. This PC won't waste half of its value after a couple of month. The 580$ price for this PhenomX4 platform shows it was well achieved. Unlike off-the-shelf PC's that you find in big retail stores, the Nemosis II features low-timing RAM, high-efficiency power supply, rock-solid motherboard : a system that will last many years.
Everyone should buy top quality electronic material because in the long run it causes less electronic garbage and uses less electricity. Also you enjoy it more.

This Antec Mini P180 micro ATX case is made of beautiful polished Gun Metal Dual Layer Panels made from 0.8mm cold-rolled Steel giving a unique mirror-like look and amazing soundproofed enclosure.




The motherboard is an Asus M4A785-M fanless AM2+, microATX, HDMI output, PCIe 16X, Hybrid CrossFireX™ Support, 7.1 audio + Digital SPDIF, Gigabit Ethernet.

Look at its specifications.

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 Super Efficient Seasonic S12II 520W
The power-supply is a Seasonic that produce almost no noise. You will ear it only if you are at 2 inch from it. During high-demand gaming, the fan stays quiet :) I only use top-quality power supply. This one is worth 80$. It will last twice as long as a cheap 50$ ones, run cooler thus quieter, and reduce your electricity bill. Help the planet by reducing the amount of cheap power-supplies you throw in the garbage buy picking up a good one that'll last longer.


Video Card
OnBoard ATI Radeon HD4200 512mb DDR2
VGA + DVI + HDMI output
IO connectors / DVI + VGA + HDMI

This is an OnBoard graphic and thus has poor 3D capabilities. Yet for most of us, it is more than we need because it has stunning 2D transfer rate due to video memory being the same as system memory. This means high transfer capabilities for HD video playback.
What is very hot is that this Nemosis II platform can be transformed into a powerful gaming machine by adding a decent PCIe video card!

 

AMD Phenom X4 9150e 1.8GHz, can run at 2.3GHz without problems. This CPU features a L3 cache of 2MB which improves significantly overall performances (including gaming). This L3 cache runs approximately twice as fast as the system DDR2 memory

Running in idle at 36°C you have room to play (as a comparison, my laptop's Turion X2 CPU runs at 72°C in idle). Remember, it's not the amount of cores that truely makes a difference, it is the power of one core. Most of the time the critical path for a task to complete or a frame to be drawed is located on only one core and to improve true response-time, you'd better choose a CPU that has two fast cores over four slower cores. That being said, the base option for the Nemosis II PC is a quad-core and can be upgraded to a newer generation AM3 CPU.
 

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Corsair XMS TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (4-4-4-12)

The memory (RAM) is among the best of its class. Corsair DDR2-800 4-4-4-12. It has a very low latency time: 50ns. Because of this low latency your applications and games will run quicky-speedy. Not all DDR2-800 are the same and RAM timing directly affects CPU performance: what's good having a killer CPU if it's idling half the time while waiting for memory transfer.

 



Very handy flash card reader.
SD (Secure Digital), Compact Flash, USB 2.0, MMC, XD and other I don't even know about!

 



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640GB Western Digital Dual Proc SATA3 6GB/s 64MB Cache

Hard disk: A 640GB Western Digital SATA-3 model with Dual Proc for higher throughput. Model WD6402AAEX.




Specifications

Case Antec Mini P180 (quiet computing) 110.00$
Motherboard Asus M4A785-M 81.99$
CPU Quad-Core AMD Phenom X4 9150e 65W 110.00$
Heat-Pipe CPU Cooler Silenx IXC-120HA2 Direct Touch Heatpipe Cooler 29.99$
Video Card OnBoard DDR2 512mb ATI HD4200.
 included
RAM Corsair XMS TWIN2X2048 4-4-4-12 (2x1Gig)
(add 72.99$ for another 2gig)		 72.99$
Audio OnBoard 7.1 Realtek + SPDIF included
Power Supply Seasonic S12II 520W 75.00$
Hard Disk 640GB W.D. Dual Proc, SATA3 6GB/s, 64MB Cache 59.99$
DVD Writer Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-218L 35.99$
Card Reader nGear 9.99$
Total: 585.94$

Common Options (more are available on request)

RAM add 2GB matched TWIN2X2048 4-4-4-12 72.99$
CPU upgrade to Phenom II X2 550 AM3 3.1GHz 45.00$
Hard Disk change to a 1TB W.D. Green (but slower), SATA3 free

Price: 580.93$ + taxes = 655.72$