N100 Mini-ITX Silent PC Build

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Silent Mini-ITX PC build using an ASRock N100DC-ITX motherboard with an Intel N100 processor.
At the time of upload, the ASRock N100DC-ITX motherboard was available from:
Amazon UK: amzn.to/3GFOBAi (affiliate link)
TechImage:
techimage.co.uk/motherboards/...
New Egg: www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162133
The “Explaining PC Front Panel Connectors” video I mentioned is here:
• Explaining PC Front Pa...
The video first where I first built my i3 4300T Mini-ITX system is here:
• Haswell i3 Mini-ITX Bu...
And the video where I added a removable 2.5 inch drive bay is here:
• i3 Mobile Rack
Oh, and in this recent video I discuss important factors when choosing an SSD:
• Explaining SSDs: The P...
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More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:
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You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: / @explainingthefuture
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:57 ASRock N100DC-ITX
05:37 RAM, SSD & PSU
08:33 Out with the Old
10:45 In with the New
12:48 Performance (Linux Mint)
17:41 Power Use
18:53 Wrap
#N100 #Mini-ITX #SilentPC #ExplainingComputers

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@tramcrazy 5 месяцев назад

It is genuinely refreshing to see someone building a new PC that is not intended to be ridiculously high performing but is instead just right for their needs. Throughout this build I noticed so many modest and sensible hardware choices; it made me consider the clear benefits of having a silent, efficient albeit slightly less performant machine. Thank you once again Chris for another excellent video; I am soon going to use your network cabling tutorial for my own installation!

@weinbergfahrer4048 5 месяцев назад

That's exactly the reason why I switched to an Apple Mac mini M1 in its stock configuration. Although it has a fan, under normal load it's practically inaudible. Thanks to Christopher for videos, that often put things in the right perspective!

@danielpicassomunoz2752 5 месяцев назад

I'm looking forward to low specs, high performance, optimized software

@gregclare 5 месяцев назад

Totally agree. The most common overkill in new PC builds that I see is with GPU. People seem to want to buy the best GPU they can afford, instead of what they actually need. I mean, you don’t need a RTX 4000 series for checking email, social media, web browsing, and even most gaming needs! I suspect in most builds, people can save the most by buying only the GPU they really need now, also allowing an easy future upgrade when more graphics performance is really needed.

@DJDocsVideos 5 месяцев назад

both the SSD and the RAM choice are overkill for this box

@Darkk6969 5 месяцев назад

@@DJDocsVideos Well he uses virtualbox so it will benefit from it.

@ypat90 5 месяцев назад

Nicely done! 1/3 electricity consumed for 3-4x performance gain. And no tinnitus triggering noise. Wishing you another 10 years of enjoying this computer case.

@NOPerative 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely. Less power consumption with tangible performance improvements is the real-world, old-school, inarguable upgrade.

@knerduno5942 5 месяцев назад

Too bad we are not seeing Atom based board anymore. They have even lower power usage, and have even better math performance than the N series.

@BenState 5 месяцев назад

Still way too expensive. the power difference will not be noticeable in any meaningful way in terms of cost.

@knerduno5942 5 месяцев назад

I think it is too expensive also. Should be around $60

@clooi5018 5 месяцев назад

This is E-core only version of Alderlake family. So is all gracemont core. :) @@knerduno5942

@Gorf1234 5 месяцев назад

Nice video Chris - you've not changed in (nearly) 40 years! You won't remember, and neither of us knew it at the time, but you were instrumental in starting me off on a career in IT when you were helping me with an electronics project at school.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Wow! I presume this was at WRGS? A long time ago.

@Gorf1234 5 месяцев назад

@@ExplainingComputers Indeed it was! Not the happiest of times for other reasons, but even after all this time I remember you patiently explaining the purpose of a 555 timer to what must have looked like a Lancashire neanderthal. Clearly your desire to educate others hasn't dwindled.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Ah this takes me back, as does the 555. Still a useful and classic IC. :)

@tom60415 5 месяцев назад

Its nice seeing someone create a low end PC instead of some high-end gaming PC. Your videos are great!

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. :)

@nicholaswjamrock 5 месяцев назад

@@ExplainingComputers could you post a link to where i could get the simular case

@kurnma3776 5 месяцев назад

What a beautiful rig. Love how you focus on practical and power-efficient builds that don’t make your power bill skyrocket.

@RoboNuggie 5 месяцев назад

I tend to have music on most times to dampen my tinnitus - but the power saving aspect is something to look for regardless especially in these times..... Thank you for the video Chris, and take care.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for your support. I find there are times when background sound helps, and times when I prefer to remove all triggers. :)

@LucS0042 2 месяца назад

PS2 port, parallel port headers, serial port, VGA port.... Feels like a blast from the past.... But with a modern cpu. Great video!

@dang48 5 месяцев назад

I enjoy seeing these videos. Helps when deciding what to use when upgrading and I appreciate the honesty shown when discussing any drawbacks. The silent cooling is a bonus as well. Thanks and as always, great video.

@kk0dj 5 месяцев назад

Smashing! You did the usual outstanding job on this Chris. Thank you for choosing to upgrade with affordable yet fully capable components. Looking forward to a subsequent report down the line. Cheers!

@leadfarmer5563 4 месяца назад

As always Chris, informative and entertaining. I am extremely happy I found your channel years ago. Thank you for all the great vids including this one.

@johncundiff7075 5 месяцев назад

Awesome mix of old school and new school! Keep up the great work Sir!

@flemtone 5 месяцев назад

I love seeing new systems built that use far less energy :) This is the way!

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

The way indeed.

@lilhaxxor 5 месяцев назад

I am glad you got your new PC. I wanted to do something similar but I got lost in the many options to choose from, and gave up. Seeing how simple the build can be helps a lot. Thanks for sharing. ❤

@ToddSAFM 5 месяцев назад

I love your computer upgrade videos. So down to earth, and a good reminder to keep hardware in service when possible rather than buying everything new for a new project.

@420bobby69 5 месяцев назад

Getting to watch an excellent new build video from Chris while simultaneously getting to watch him struggle with the small form factor on camera is such a perfect combo. Passive cooling too! The only thing quieter than a Noctua fan.

@SuperFredAZ 5 месяцев назад

I really appreciate the way you re-use the case, and drives, and do frugal upgrades that get what you need and don't waste resources. this would make a great Home Theater PC or Plex (or similar) server. Nice job!

@djzio 5 месяцев назад

Professor Barnatt, when I find a channel that grabs me, I stick with it. Over the last couple of years, a lot of channels I used to find interesting got to be boring, stupid or just shite, but your videos are still as interesting as the 1st!

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this positive feedback, appreciated. :)

@zzstoner 5 месяцев назад

That new board looks really nice. Props to ASRock for making it, and props to you, good sir, for giving it a happy new home. 💻🖥👍

@giannistsolebas6962 5 месяцев назад

It's so nice to watch a video like this. It reminds me of older systems when passive cooling was still a common thing. Such a beautiful piece of computing engineering, for daily use of browser, office, etc.

@litebkt 5 месяцев назад

I’m really impressed by these low power solutions. Thanks!

@Antti_Nannimus 5 месяцев назад

Nice set of choices for a perfectly functional "daily driver". As a build for you and your skills, this was falling-down easy. But I'm sure it would be a great tutorial for beginners looking for a similar very affordable platform. It's a nice addition to your canon, and your video production skills are always top-notch.

@hasansalim1868 5 месяцев назад

Hi Chris. Congrats for the upgrade and thanks for the nice video.

@jpmyers6950 5 месяцев назад

After I watched this video I bought all the parts and built one for myself. The bios went right to my USB stick and booted into Linux mint. I installed it and it loaded just fine. I installed a temperature app and put on a video, the temp only went up to 120. This is an amazing board. Thanks Chris.

@clooi5018 5 месяцев назад

Chris, I was person that did the memory reference layout for the CPU company (This family cpu supports DDR4, DDR5, LPDDR5, max 32G ram), very happy to see you like the system . I posted a link to Intel website on the N family that has more powerful CPU N200,N300 , lower performance N95 --. Somehow my comment was deleted yesterday . So I am not posting any URL risk robot spam removal. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing happy customer. Merry Christmas !

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this, very interesting to hear from somebody involved. :)

@clooi5018 5 месяцев назад

@@ExplainingComputers This chip was also optimized for chromebook. If you build a Chrome flex OS and run it off SSD, it will be very fast. A few well known OEM build chromebook with this CPU. Surface Go4 will come with this family of CPU too. 😊

@Kenobi5001 5 месяцев назад

Great quiet build, Mint and XP.. two of my favourites!

@PS_Tube 5 месяцев назад

Greetings. A silent PC is certainly a nice choice when it gives enough power to do everyday tasks and even run a VM. Interesting upgrade video, Chris B.

@richardbaker974 5 месяцев назад

The combination of perfectly suited lower-end "tool" PC build AND Explaining Computers. Absolute must watch for me.

@iandron7119 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Christopher, that's a nice wee system you've got there. I liked the Tremeloes reference even though it's before your time!

@45KevinR 4 месяца назад

First one of your videos that I've seen. Very straightforward and measured. I am reminded in the best way, of the Open University broadcasts of the 80s & 90s. 👍🎓😎

@dezmondwhitney1208 5 месяцев назад

This Build was Clear and confidence building for those us building our own desktop pc or returning to doing so. Energy saver too.

@JP-vh1vx 5 месяцев назад

Very helpful video as usual. Today I built a similar pc to his build. I’m very impressed with the performance and price. These N100 cpus make for a snappy little machine.

@DeirdreYoung1 5 месяцев назад

What a sweet little box! I really wasn't sure that the N100 would do the job, but I admit I am pretty impressed.

@Colin_Ames 5 месяцев назад

Always good to see an EC build video. Clear explanation as to why each component was chosen, and how to carry out the assembly. As a bonus, I think this might be the first time I heard the meaning of LPT.

@sharonwolff1 5 месяцев назад

That and the serial port are now relics of the past for most people. Surprising the board had them both. Unless you ordered that motherboard especially because you had a use for them?

@Colin_Ames 5 месяцев назад

@@sharonwolff1 I too was surprised to see that Chris’ board had both ports, as I’m sure it’s meant for office or home use. Serial is still (or was until recently) used in industrial applications.

@nasanierulastname2997 3 месяца назад

Those older ports might be useful for certain commercial or industrial use cases where interfacing with the machine the computer controls requires LPT or COM. One example I can immediately think of is laser tag arenas.

@PhilipBallGarry 4 месяца назад

Nice build. It's always extremely satisfying to see the performance benefits of current PC tech vs something nearly a decade old. A year on, I suffer from post-covid tinnitus so I can fully appreciate how it feels to never be able to hear true silence ever again 😞. But, some people have succumbed to far more serious after effects of the virus so I should be thankful really.

@tremorist 5 месяцев назад

The sub d connectors give it a kind of retro look. Happy holidays.

@registromalplena2514 5 месяцев назад

Glad you're doing this when I thought about getting this board to make a 1U server.

@martinbakker7615 5 месяцев назад

Great upgrade! Thanks Chris.

@Praxibetel-Ix 5 месяцев назад

It seems as though RU-vid ate my first attempt to make this comment so here it goes again. I always love the PC build videos and this one is certainly no exception. I did have to hold back my laughter upon seeing the two individually bagged screws that came with the board! Whose bright idea was that? Anyway, hopefully your ears will be very happy with the quiet PC upgrade! And in regards to 15:21, here's a nice virtual hug. 🤗

@RobertBoerner 5 месяцев назад

Another excellent video. One idea for the black plastic back plate you used to cover the empty PSU bay would be to fit a parallel port. It would be pretty cool to have a modern system that has PS/2, serial and parallel ports should you need them for older devices.

@busydadscooking001 5 месяцев назад

I missed this part of the video. I would actually block it with a screen or leave it open for airflow. That case was not designed for fanless specifically and so it has ventilation but ideally more..

@michaelwright2986 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure somewhere in the world there are still functioning daisy wheel printers. That would give a real retro charm to paper output.

@jorgerapalo2673 5 месяцев назад

I work with structural design software that uses a hardware lock device that connects to a parallel port in order to let the program function legally. I have needed to keep functional old machines that still have that port. Newer versions of the software use other methods but are expensive and the old one that was legally bought still works like a charm. So having a newer computer with a functioning parallel port would be great.

@jasongooden917 5 месяцев назад

Stanley the Knife has seen better days

@Praxibetel-Ix 5 месяцев назад

He's such a hard-working knife, our Stanley.

@chriholt 5 месяцев назад

Nice upgrade Chris! Hadn't heard about the N100 processor until this video!

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Greetings Chris.

@johng.4959 5 месяцев назад

Awesome video!! Many of us do not need the latest gaming builds! Silence and efficiently operating systems are wonderful for a lot of what we do. Love to see more builds lkke this!👍

@watching_events447 5 месяцев назад

Nice build. I recently bought an N100 mini PC for running Jellyfin , pihole, and Nextcloud. Performs well, at just 6 watts draw.

@danielkowalski7527 5 месяцев назад

up to 15w draw

@watching_events447 5 месяцев назад

@@danielkowalski7527 Measured mine at 6w when streaming video from Jellyfin. That's about as much as I do at any one time.

@cleverson_sa_ 5 месяцев назад

Congratulations! I've build my night sky observation camera station for outdoor usage with an ASRock board as main server . I love the power efficiency of these boards. 😊

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

@shawnvines2514 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video as always. I definitely like these type of builds for low power consumption if I'm going to have a lot of them especially. Thank you for sharing.

@gloiloidn5752 5 месяцев назад

I just love your videos! Now you can read comments without any noise :D

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks, and exactly so. :)

@VictorBreder 5 месяцев назад

Congratulations for the new build! I thought that N100 were available only on mini PCs, so it's cool to know they are an option to consider for power-efficient modern builds!

@jamescollins6085 5 месяцев назад

I hope to find a similar solution with the more powerful i3 N305 CPU, as that would make for a great low power home server.

@MrPir84free 5 месяцев назад

There's also firewall appliances in the N100 format. Not terribly user friendly as far as servicing, but they come with a massive heatsink in the fanless variety. Personally, I might be interested in a N305 version over the N100; twice the cores, with a slight bump up in power draw. Note. I checked my N100 firewall appliance; it's running at 55 C currently.

@danw1955 5 месяцев назад

Glad I caught this video Christopher! This gives me some ideas for upgrading a nice old Falcon Northwest aluminum 'Shuttle' type case that currently has an old mini-ATX with a dual-core Celeron that's about used up. I'm pretty sure the case is setup for a micro ITX as well, but even if it isn't, there's plenty of floor space to redrill it for the necessary stand-offs. I don't see those SATA power cables being able to support any type of standard 3.5 in. SATA drives, so I may have to go with the N100M, so I can retain my stock PSU, and a case fan or 2, to keep the drives cool. It wouldn't be quite as efficient, but I could have a LOT more storage, and exponentially faster to boot!😉

@fram1111 5 месяцев назад

Another outstanding build.

@Broken_robot1986 5 месяцев назад

Verrry impressive! Congrats on hitting load numbers equal to your old resting ones.

@martinenglish6641 5 месяцев назад

All in all, it is a good board. I can use it to operate as a beefy PLC application in factory settings or a small PC controller and monitor many PLCs in a factory setting. I have 2 on order and will test it before trying to market it to my customers. It has to function stressed under max loads in a hot. humid, and dusty environment. I may have to run it caseless as I do many of my SBCs that serve as replacements for old SS PLCs. It looks promising and cost-effective. Cool Video. Thank you.

@ted-b 5 месяцев назад

I always love an EC computer build!

@apparentlyretrograde 5 месяцев назад

Just ordered one of these based on your recommendation. I'll be using it as a plex and roon server. I've had a beautiful fractal design mini itx case sitting idle for a couple of years and finally have something worthy, but not overpriced, to put in it.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Good luck with your build! :) I remain very pleased with this board.

@ShizukanaEntertainment 5 месяцев назад

Great video (as always)! One thing I've learnt throughout the years of computing is to take pauses during longer sessions. It's easy to forget about time while working/gaming/etc., but a few minutes of just standing up or leaving the room for a minute helps with getting out of that very static stance one might have while sitting down (completely unaware of it). Tinnitus can come from muscle tension and so on, for instance, jaw clenching. Hope the silent machine helps out anyhow! Sure think it will!

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

A very interesting point on muscle tension. Thanks for this,

@daviddevillers6790 5 месяцев назад

I like this setup idea. Great video - thank you.

@robertj1138 Месяц назад

I really like this project as it matches with a similar idea i had for building switching over my NAS. I probably would have put a fan in there because I am paranoid, but it is nicely done. Thank you for sharing.

@MarcosCodas 5 месяцев назад

I really miss taking a closer look. But the videos are fantastic as usual.

@kountkrackula9518 5 месяцев назад

The thermaltake case you have is a case I love, I have one I use as my linux machine. Half way across the world same taste in cases. Great content.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

@dexterroy 4 месяца назад

You have CRT monitor! Massive respect!

@frederickwood9116 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing. This board and its bigger m-atx sister are right in the home pc/lab space and very economical too. For anyone curious. The specific nvme is MZ-V7S2T0. The manufacture’s website has a memory QVL file in the support section so you can get a better interesting about ram speed options. There is a storage QVL too if anyone is curious.

@davidgomez79 5 месяцев назад

Great little machine and so efficient.

@Techmagus76 5 месяцев назад

Not sure how many viewers will get the Tremeloes reference, but nicely delivered Chris.

@tylerlloydboone 5 месяцев назад

Hats off to you Christopher! Reminds me of the day I built a silent no moving parts intel atom pc way back when❤

@alanthornton3530 5 месяцев назад

An interesting silent build & not a bad price for the N100. I like the the old itx case you've reused it seemed to have a fair amount of space. Mr scissors had plenty of action nice to see, one thing missing was the cursing of the IO shield.

@jpmyers6950 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I didn't know about these boards. I think I'm gonna have to build me one. Thanks Chris!

@NOPerative 5 месяцев назад

Something old. Something new. Upgrade baby! Good stuff.

@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse 2 месяца назад

Nice little system and totally silent too.

@atonal440 5 месяцев назад

I bought an N100 NUC recently, and it is remarkable performance for the price. It feels like my old desktop i5 from ten years ago: 4 cores, 4 threads, nothing fancy like P-cores or chiplets, everything is equal and sane. It feels right somehow.

@johanpeturdam 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I almost feel inspired to build something like this for my parents’ daily use. And in the words of Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence!

@Praxibetel-Ix 5 месяцев назад

[piiiiiiiing...] God-tier song. Anyway, good luck if you do build one!

@IanHodgetts 5 месяцев назад

I love the fact that you have copious amounts of blu-tack alongside your K-9. I use that much of it I ought to buy shares in the company! ;-)

@Bronek0990 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the idea! I'm planning to build a low power home server soon and energy usage is a major consideration, alongside noise. While this specific model doesn't have enough SATA ports for my liking (unless I get a PCIe -> SATA card), this has definitely pointed me in the right direction!

@45KevinR 4 месяца назад

There's a few aliexpress motherboards out there with 6 sata and 1-2 M2 shots. They appear to be the latest cpu upgrade on boards that came up from 5105 & 6213 cpus. The main struggle is the N100 only having 9 pci lanes to handle everything, so there's some compromises. Those motherboards seem to originate from NVR security camera recording. So they get 3/4 2.5G ethernet ports (!) which claim the lion's share of the pci lanes. Still very good value of you wait for the prices to cycle lower. I was looking at older SFF pcs or H110i motherboards and the price-performance-wattage on the new N100 softrouter/nas setups appear to compete very well even against used systems. We don't get as great deals on discarded commercial kit in the UK.

@AMDRADEONRUBY 5 месяцев назад

I love your mini pc videos thanks alot my friend have a nice one.

@circuitdotlt 5 месяцев назад

I'm using this motherboard inside an old switch 1U rack case, as a home server and smart home hub, DVR etc. What I missed was an internal DC connector to have 19V laptop brick mounted inside, not only via back panel. Also I'd love it to have a full x16 PCIe for RAID storage options. The connector is x4, but actually only x2 connected. Same for mpcie.

@CharlesClout 5 месяцев назад

This would be great to use for a low powered NAS, especially if you used flash storage for the array, complete silence! Great video Chris and may be the basis for my next homelab build.

@QazCetelic 5 месяцев назад

Have you seen those NAS N5105 boards by topton? They have 6 SATA ports.

@dwinterx 5 месяцев назад

That was my first thought as well, but the PCIe / M.2 connectivity looks a bit limited to me though. Still an interesting motherboard. I'm running a HP Prodesk 400 G6 (SFF) I bought used off ebay for about £160 a little while back, came with a core i5 (9th gen), 16GB Ram and an SSD. I upgraded a few bits on it and run Unraid on there. Quiet, efficient, and quite powerful when it needs to be. About 8W on idle and similar on load to this N100 system with an 8 core, Core™ i7-9700T. They are great for a NAS and can fit a single 3.5" drive as well which is handy. Not silent, but I run it in the loft of my garage anyway, so I can' t hear it! 😀

@geoffpedder 5 месяцев назад

Neat, I'm thinking of using this motherboard for a low power server system. Looks good

@lilblackduc7312 5 месяцев назад

I hope the new fanless system is easier on your ears, Professor! Thank you for sharing this video with us...🇺🇸 👍☕

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. The silent operation of this PC is already providing me with significant benefits.

@ShadowRune 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting build, this has helped with some of my reservations about these CPUs. The main thing about them that makes me worried is the lack of hyper-threading and only single channel memory support but I guess they're more capable than I feared

@brentsmithline3423 5 месяцев назад

Love this build. What I love about my Apple M1 MacBook Air no fan, low power.

@danielsnyder6900 5 месяцев назад

Great video, clear and concise. A balance of energy savings of compute power is becoming easier these days with tech. This hardware functions are similar to a Dell 7060m series, which is what I use for a daily driver, but with a good performance boost.

@andygardiner6526 5 месяцев назад

serial and parallel connectors - made me feel quite retro!

@johanpeturdam 5 месяцев назад

Ikr? You can put a CVX4 or OPL3LPT on the LPT port and have actual retro sounds coming out of your machine. And a mouse in COM1 too.

@JonBrookes 5 месяцев назад

another video brilliantly done Chris, thanks again. Your use of tech so as to get the max out of it has green creds by not buying the latest just because you can, yet getting something to replace what you have good use out of over 9 years was it ? and then to get better io, cpu, power consumption and above all silent ! A tour de force of good choices and self build. You can't buy this sort of thing off the shelf, you have to do it yourself in my view. Excellent.

@rookieone33 5 месяцев назад

Excellent that silence, that's sounds a lot better than my N100 mini pc ;-)

@philsbbs 5 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas

@liontuga155 5 месяцев назад

I love this build. And yes, Office 2003 is the best MS Office, and I still use it! I feel vindicated! Thanks, Chris!

@lawLess-fs1qx 5 месяцев назад

jeez I though I was the country bumpkin with Office 2008

@nasanierulastname2997 4 месяца назад

@@lawLess-fs1qxBack in senior year of high school I actually typed a paper entirely on Office 2000 using a Windows 98 VM

@MrPirreE 5 месяцев назад

This is fun to watch. Even tho some complain that x86 is stagnant because they don’t see big changes between generation of CPU anymore this shows that over 10 year period quit much has happend in form of performance/watt. Also nostalgia to see Win XP and Office 2003. 👍

@trevorford8332 5 месяцев назад

Afternoon Chris! It's faster than my laptop, not bad specs for what it is.

@petercarter9034 5 месяцев назад

I really enjoy watching you build personal computers, it reminds me when I used to go to computer fairs and building my own back in the 80s...

@johnbee1574 5 месяцев назад

iv always felt asrock is underated, this board has all you need. and nice to see the vga port sticking around

@marcdraco2189 5 месяцев назад

Nice little system for everyday use.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Exactly. :)

@deanstyles2567 5 месяцев назад

An EC build without 'come on you little swine'? It's gone very smoothly then! 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB is an interesting choice. I'm assuming Linux Mint 21.3 may see a newer kernel that supports the N100? Thanks Chris for the video. These N100s are decent little chips.

@SiphesihleKhoza 5 месяцев назад

He probably said that during the I/O shield install which he skipped lol

@Praxibetel-Ix 5 месяцев назад

Either putting the I/O shield on went well or our always dashing pal turned the air blue during the process! 😅

@Mr.KellyMelvin 5 месяцев назад

Well, this was a breath of fresh air.

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. :)

@dylanwilsonYT 5 месяцев назад

Good afternoon Chris! Really nice upgrade you've done here - Silent and low power consumption, what more can you ask for! :)

@maf939 5 месяцев назад

Well that's what I call a system upgrade. Increased performance with reduced energy and complete silence. Wish I could do that with my rig someday. P.S. Nice desktop background picture 🙂

@tpobrienjr 5 месяцев назад

This is tempting. My amateur radio station would enjoy some of the silence.

@haydenc2742 5 месяцев назад

Very nice...if that old i3 motherboard has a socket...you should see if you can find an i7 that can replace it, and upgrade it, and see what it would have cost you to get more cores/speed Very cool build! Keep em coming!!!!

@DaveRyder-po4gq 5 месяцев назад

Nice build Chris..

@ExplainingComputers 5 месяцев назад

Thanks.

@Kennephone 2 месяца назад

I love that case, I wish more modern cases had 5.25'' drive bays, even if you're not gonna put an optical drive, they're handy for hot swap sata bays or additional front usb.

@lesk7427 5 месяцев назад

This is what I was thinking about doing but add in some nas drives as well. Thanks for the ideas!

@cdl0 5 месяцев назад

Good stuff; I like this. I have one recommendation: If possible, disable display of the logo at boot, and monitor the manufacturer's website for a BIOS upgrade to fix the LogoFAIL vulnerability.

@johnrush3596 5 месяцев назад

N100 makes a decent VM server as well for prototypes and home automation. With 32gb you can throw a lot of lightly loaded services at it. Performance is great for the power usage.