I'm surprised I haven't even posted a thing about my Raspi... Anyway....
It's not horribly powerful, though it's supposed to be able to stream 1080p video... Chrome kicks the SoC to 100%... so yeah, idk :/
I plan on doing a few tests with Transmission (BitTorrent program) to see how it works out... Otherwise, I'll have to drop the idea of holding openSUSE torrents, which would be a bit of a bummer.
I made a "case" for the Raspi... it's quite crude and actually doesn't hold the Raspi 100% securly. BUT! It does have a fan! XDDDD
Just a fan that blows on the ARM chip, none of the funny heat-sinks that I've seen... too much drilling XD
The case is made from a optical disk drive shell, a 5.25" bay tear-off cover, and some tear-off PCI covers XP
You can see the SD card sticking out and the anti-static foam that the Raspi sits on (rather have any ESD from the case go to the Raspi power cable that's not plugged in for the picture, not to mention, it needs to sit on something anyway). The fan is on, it was the stock fan from Ziggy's CPU cooler, and you can also see the fan controller I added so it's not blasting at full speed. All the "case" parts are from computer parts as previously stated XP
The ARM chip stays relatively cool even though I keep the fan speed at lowest. Funny thing is that when I plug the fan in, I have to kinda turn the knob a smidge higher (enough to where it "bounces" back like when you turn the key of a car to start the engine, which is about 1-2 degrees on the knob) spin the fan with a finger and then let go. At worst though, I just turn it up and then ease it down.
The "shroud" has a spring underneath with some rubber pads and mounts to the case with a couple motherboard stand-off screws.
There are three screws in a triangular formation that make up the feet (since the motherboard stand-off screws protrude from the bottom).
Two of the fan's mounting brackets are screwed into the case to make sure it doesn't decide to fly away or something XD
I think I'm done now.
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