Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807 Intel Celeron (Baytrail) DDR3 Barebones PC

GMorrison · 22 Aug 2015 at 01:10

Good evening all.

Been out of the loop for some time and looking to purchase this particular product and have a few questions;

To make this product functional i'm aware that I'll have to also order a HDD, RAM and provide myself an operating system (I'm leaning towards Linux Mint/Ubuntu)

I'm looking at buying this RAM:

Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3

However, can someone recommend me a HDD?

I'm looking for at least 1TB of storage space but I'm getting a bit confused with what size of HDD the computer will fit. (Like I said, been out of the loop).

Thank you!

CEUOTC · 22 Aug 2015 at 06:11

GMorrison said:
Good evening all.

Been out of the loop for some time and looking to purchase this particular product and have a few questions;

To make this product functional i'm aware that I'll have to also order a HDD, RAM and provide myself an operating system (I'm leaning towards Linux Mint/Ubuntu)

I'm looking at buying this RAM:

Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3

However, can someone recommend me a HDD?

I'm looking for at least 1TB of storage space but I'm getting a bit confused with what size of HDD the computer will fit. (Like I said, been out of the loop).

Thank you!

This requires 1.35v RAM, Kingston.

HDD wise 2TB HDD 2.5" x 9mm will fit and this 1TB SSHD.

GMorrison · 22 Aug 2015 at 11:43

Good stuff, thanks a lot! Also silly question but does this particular computer come with a PSU? All I can see is "Input: AC 100-240V".

OhEsEcks · 22 Aug 2015 at 13:24

GMorrison said:
Good stuff, thanks a lot! Also silly question but does this particular computer come with a PSU? All I can see is "Input: AC 100-240V".

I have one of the older Brix and it came with a small power brick (like a laptop... in fact I'm using it to power a laptop since the laptops original brick died and I haven't got round to ordering a new one). If you look at the pics on OCUK, the power input is beside the HDMI port on your model.

GMorrison · 22 Aug 2015 at 13:26

OhEsEcks said:
I have one of the older Brix and it came with a small power brick (like a laptop... in fact I'm using it to power a laptop since the laptops original brick died and I haven't got round to ordering a new one). If you look at the pics on OCUK, the power input is beside the HDMI port on your model.

Lovely stuff. Thank you very much, should be ordering next week hopefully

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OhEsEcks · 22 Aug 2015 at 13:35

No probs. I see you mentioned Linux too. I'm a full time Linux user, and my Brix had no problem running Linux (everything including the wireless was detected). That was last year, so with the new 4.x kernels, support should be even less of a concern. I was also able to run Steam on mine (i5-4200 model) on a 1440p screen. Games using the Source engine played fine, but other titles it struggled with.

GMorrison · 23 Aug 2015 at 22:35

OhEsEcks said:
No probs. I see you mentioned Linux too. I'm a full time Linux user, and my Brix had no problem running Linux (everything including the wireless was detected). That was last year, so with the new 4.x kernels, support should be even less of a concern. I was also able to run Steam on mine (i5-4200 model) on a 1440p screen. Games using the Source engine played fine, but other titles it struggled with.

That's great to hear, which distribution are you running?

Also, this is my first time using a "barebones" bundle, did your brix come with the SATA cables inside but no HDD or am I going to have to buy a HDD and a cable separately? The one that CEOUTC linked me to is OEM and am I correct in thinking that these usually don't come with cables etc?

Apologies for noob questions, it's been years. :confused:

OhEsEcks · 24 Aug 2015 at 09:52

GMorrison said:
That's great to hear, which distribution are you running?

Also, this is my first time using a "barebones" bundle, did your brix come with the SATA cables inside but no HDD or am I going to have to buy a HDD and a cable separately? The one that CEOUTC linked me to is OEM and am I correct in thinking that these usually don't come with cables etc?

Apologies for noob questions, it's been years.

At the time I was running Debian and Ubuntu Gnome on it. So that would have been Kernel 3.something

The 4200u model I had only took an msata drive, since it was very thin and there was a heatsink and fan on the underside of the board.

This guy on Youtube has a review for your model and it shows it has an HDD/SSD SATA cable already attached to the motherboard with a mounting point for the drive on the underside of the top of the case.

No drives come with cables (Retail or OEM). It's usually your motherboard that comes with a couple of cables. Unless it's something like the Brix or some other SFF that uses a unique / proprietary connector.