Since we announced that the HP Microserver N36lis in stock we’ve been flooded with emails asking if certain upgrades will be compatible with their HP Microserver. By the looks of it, lots of customers are looking at upgrading their Microserver and us the Microserver as a media pc, meaning people are looking at upgrades for HDD’s, RAM and Video Cards.  It’s not so easy to tell what and what doesn’t fit in a mini ATX board, with a limited 150w (max 200w) PSU and ECC slots for ram.

Graphics cards

Gigabyte ATI HD 5450 PCI-E 2.0 512MB | — | EVGA PCIe G210 1GB Low Profile Heatsink

You might be slightly confused, for these graphics cards state a minimum 300w PSU to work, however that isn’t the case, DO NOT overclock.

Ram

KINGSTON 1x 4GB 1333MHz ECCHPPn LIFETIME WARRANTY–

KINGSTON 8GB 1333MHz REG ECCMODULE

HDD

Samsung EcoGreen 2Tb HDD|–|OCZ SSD 2.5″ SATA3 120G Agility 3 |

The microserver has 4 slots for hard drives. I reccomend 3, 2tb drives and 1 solid state drive for startup.

Optical Drive

Lite-On 12X BLURAY BURNER |–| ASUS SATA DRW-24B3ST Black Internal 24x

Install Windows, burn your favourite Blu-Ray movies straight to the the hard drvie.

Shintaro 2.4ghz Wireless Multimedia Keyboard with Trackball

So there we have it, a full list of items to transform your Microserver into a fully functioning media PC. Gets your with your HP Microserver N36L today!

-The Warcom Team!

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