So I finally received HPE-550F today. The case looks pretty compact for the amount of power this system has in it. The original specification of the system was
- Intel Quad Core i7-2600 Processor
- 8GB DDR3 system memory
- ATI Radeon HD 6770 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1
- 1.5TB Western Digital 5400rpm
- Blu-ray drive
- Wi-Fi 802.11n
- 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN
- Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Some tweaks were made to boost up the performance:
- +8GB DDR3 system memory
- +1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
- +60GB Solid State Drive
Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Final specifications are:
- Intel Quad Core i7-2600 Processor
- 16GB DDR3 system memory
- ATI Radeon HD 6770 1GB DDR5 PCI Express 2.1
- 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
- 60GB Solid State Drive
- 1.5TB Western Digital 5400rpm
- Blu-ray drive
- Wi-Fi 802.11n
- 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN
Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The system has a startup boot time of 6 seconds and shut down of 3 seconds. These awesome times were achieved by making 60GB Solid State Drive boot drive and store Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 files. The “Users”, “ProgramData”, ”Program Files “ and “Program Files (x86)” were moved to 1TB 7200rpm Seagate. The 1.5TB Western Digital is used to store data.
The biggest hurdle was adding the 2 hard drives. The 3.5” internal bay has ample place to fit another drive however there is no way to open the bay and insert the drive, everything seems to be welded together. The 1TB Seagate had to go into 5.25” bay below the Blu-ray Drive. The SSD is 2.5”, fitting even that drive was a pain. The graphics card was put in place using some hinges which leave no room for anything else to be added or moved in the box. Overall the challenge was worth the effort since, it has become a much faster machine than before (5400rpm drive kills it).
Windows System Performance Rating was 7.6 (Graphics Card) and once again the system has a startup boot time of 6 seconds and shut down of 3 seconds.
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