Nemosis III
Silent and durable gaming PC

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The motivation behind this computer was to create a fast yet silencious DDR3 platform using the highest quality components available. This PC won't waste half of its value after a couple of months. With it you could run the latest games, do 3D editing, run a high-throughput server or just watch movies quietly without hearing the buzzing sound of fans and the isssing sound of cheap electronic. Unlike off-the-shelf PC's that you find in big retail stores, the Nemosis III features low-timing RAM, high-efficiency power supply and 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 M4A785T-M/CSM. It features fanless operation, HDMI output, PCIe 16X, Hybrid CrossFireX™, 7.1 audio and Gigabit Ethernet. "CSM" stands form Corporate Stable Motherboard which means Asus certifies us that it has industry-leading stability and extended longevity.

Look at its specifications. 		motherboard

power supply

 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 DDR3
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 III platform can be transformed into a powerful gaming machine by adding a decent PCIe video card (see option below).

 
video card
     Asus GT240 Silent GDDR3 1GB
This Startcraft II approved graphic card is powerful yet completely silent. Specifications.

* Optional (add 109.61$)

AMD Phenom II 555 X2 AM3 3.2GHz. This CPU features a L3 cache of 6MB which improves significantly overall performances (including gaming). This L3 cache runs approximately twice as fast as the system DDR3 memory

Running in idle at 45°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.
 
AMD CPU


DDR3		      

G.SKILL Ripjaws F3-12800CL4D 4G KIT DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 1.5V

This memory (RAM) rises above what you get in factory-made PCs. It has a low latency. Because of this low latency your applications and games will run quicky-speedy. Not all DDR3 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.

 


Table 1. Memory benchmark

Latency52 ns
BandwidthXXX Mbytes/s



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

 

flash card reader

hard disk

    
1 TB Western Digital Dual Proc SATA3 6GB/s 64MB Cache
Hard disk: A 1 TB Western Digital SATA-3 model with Dual Proc for higher throughput. Model WD1002FAEX.
Also available in white !
very nice
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Specifications

Case Antec Mini P180 (quiet computing) 110.00$
Motherboard Asus M4A785T-M/CSM AM3 DDR3 94.99$
CPU AMD Phenom II X2 555 AM3 3.2GHz 80W 99.99$
CPU Cooler AMD Stock Heatsink included
RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24 141.99$
Audio OnBoard 7.1 VIA VT1708S included
Power Supply Seasonic S12II 520W 75.00$
Hard Disk 1 TB 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: 636.95$

Common Options Recommended

CPU upgrade to Phenom II X4 955 AM3 Black Edition 3.2GHz 20.00$
CPU Cooler upgrade to a huge heatsink w/ heatpipes (more silent) 40.00$
Hard Disk change to a 2TB W.D. Green (but slower), SATA3 free
Video Card add Asus NVIDIA Silent GeForce GT240 GDDR3 1GB 109.61$
Video Card add MSI NVIDIA Silent GeForce GT210 GDDR3 512mb 55.00$
Case Antec Mini P180 white free

Price: 636.95$ + taxes = 718.96$