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Building a QUIET(ish) HOME SERVER for the living room with Hyper-V / Windows



Building a QUIET(ish) home server for the living room with Hyper-V / Windows 10. Mistakes were made. Like spending forever installing a fan, only to find out that it’s too loud…

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0:00 The parts
8:00 Starting to installing the parts
12:50 Front panel connections (flip each connection the other way round for LEDs to work)
22:40 FAN installation – Where to put the fan and installing the fan
31:10 FIRST POWER ON
34:00 BIOS settings (enable virtualization)
36:30 Removing the FAN
37:23 Installing Windows 10
37:40 We’re in Windows adding Hyper-V
40:20 A little bit of sound-proofing
41:22 Hyper-V manager (creating/installing a Windows 2000 virtual machine)
45:00 Windows 2000 virtual machine in Hyper-V
47:42 Power usage (under load): 46W, CPU 36-38C
48:10 Remote connection VNC (TightVNC), with HDD throughput speed
49:51 Sleep settings
50:07 a few last things and extra virtual machines (Windows XP)
52:23 Windows 7 virtual machine (Hyper-V Integration Services)
54:01 Full-screen living room setup (4K over HDMI)

Specs:
ASUS H81I-Plus motherboard (socket 1150)
Intel i5-4460T (4core, 35W TDP)
16GB DDR3 Ram (1600/Crucial)
1TB WD BLUE 7200rpm HDD (spinning disk)
750GB Crucial MX300 SSD (boot drive)
FSP 250W Power Supply

(Removed the Gigabyte GA-H81M-S2V)

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6 Comments

  1. Nice build. I've messed with Proxmox more than Hyper V, but could never get my head around it. You could use Norton Ghost to clone a bare instal of say XP then restore an image to a new build saving you installation time.

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