What to do with E35M1-I DELUXE

pyropetepete · 7 Dec 2011 at 18:30

Forgot about this item. Was a friends who has said i can have it. It died, RMA'd and he bought a laptop as a repalcment. 6 months latter his replaced RMA arrived. ASUS RMA is pants.

http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1I_DELUXE/#specifications

Think i may have some 8GB dims laying about that will drop in. HDD I know of a deal on a 320GB SATA 2.5 for £40 with a free caddy

that could be used.

It's not the best etc but what on earth could it be used for if i built it up?

Shame it doesnt offer RAID onboard at all with the 5 SATA III

gropingmantis · 7 Dec 2011 at 18:55

I'll buy it off you if you don't want it. I would use it for an HTPC, perfect, low power, good GPU, totally passive, so you can run a silent and efficient HTPC.

pyropetepete · 13 Dec 2011 at 09:51

So im tempted to do something with it but what duno!

I got a 320GB SATA drive, 4GB DDR3 1333 and a PICO PSU.

This XBMC needs an OS installed to run, so whats going to be the best OS to use?

It's all super new to me this!

sypher365 · 13 Dec 2011 at 12:39

Its perfect for a HTPC build can which can run XMBC through Linux don't need to worry about a windows build unless your gonna put a blueray with it that needs something like cyberlink powerdvd to play them.

Quite a few guides on avforums as well as the xmbc forums on the different installations.

Believe you could even do a usb boot into linux/xmbc build.

Smit · 13 Dec 2011 at 15:44

pyropetepete said:
So im tempted to do something with it but what duno!

I got a 320GB SATA drive, 4GB DDR3 1333 and a PICO PSU.

This XBMC needs an OS installed to run, so whats going to be the best OS to use?

It's all super new to me this!

XBMC doesn't need a dedicated OS installed. You can grab XBMC Live from the official site.

Openelec would also be a suitable choice IMO

bugeyewrx · 13 Dec 2011 at 16:33

It's got htpc written all over it

and as Smit says you don't need an os just us the live version . In fact it's probably better to use the live version as it boots quicker . Or you could do a dual boot install with xbmc and ubuntu or windows .

pyropetepete · 16 Dec 2011 at 09:20

Not so sure i know at all what im doing here!!! It's got 5 SATA ports all SATA III. That could make a nice FREENAS setup, OS on USB, 5 2TB drives

10TB freenas server!

bugeyewrx · 19 Dec 2011 at 14:27

My media server runs FREENAS and tbh I wish I'd put a bit more effort in and gone for Ubuntu server or FreeBSD . I'll change to one of them when I rebuild it .

pyropetepete · 19 Dec 2011 at 14:57

I had a quick play with it last night and was confused the hell buy it. I need to have a rethink on this one!

vanandjuanunited · 19 Dec 2011 at 15:00

Mine in use as htpc
Virtually silent except for hdd. Does Everthing I need it to do.

pyropetepete · 19 Dec 2011 at 16:57

I've no need for it. I could do with a decent NAS, my main pc will do as a HTPC. Oh umm

bugeyewrx · 20 Dec 2011 at 10:26

As far as I can tell any server os is based on getting as many confusing anachronisms involved as possible and the longer the better . It's worth persevering though as it does become clear in the end ( sort of )

pyropetepete · 20 Dec 2011 at 13:27

bugeyewrx said:
As far as I can tell any server os is based on getting as many confusing anachronisms involved as possible and the longer the better . It's worth persevering though as it does become clear in the end ( sort of )

Really, so whats the quick fix then to get through it and become wiser at the end of it?

bugeyewrx · 20 Dec 2011 at 14:12

Hate to say it but reading the instructions and following them really carefully helps , then when it doesn't work do all of it again .

This pretty much sums up the experience ......

pyropetepete · 20 Dec 2011 at 15:11

bugeyewrx said:
Hate to say it but reading the instructions and following them really carefully helps , then when it doesn't work do all of it again .

This pretty much sums up the experience ......

I may spear my self and bay it