Hi I have an asrock z87e-itx with the custom bios provided from a friendly forum member! I am looking to get a riser to allow me to use two cards. I have a matx rack mount case with 4 half height slots. I'd like to be able to use the remaining slots and mount it to the case either by a threaded...
So with the CustomMOD Mini 3.96L (HDPLEX + GTX 1080) I'm unable to mount the hdplex PSU and plug? Or is it just the PSU doesn't mount and you need something like velcro tape and the barrel connector is mountable?
My suggestion for the glass/acrylic side panels would be to narrow the window so you can just see the GPU and then put a hole pattern on the metal itself above and below the window. Similarly on the CPU side I would only keep the window over the motherboard because no one wants to see the excess...
Thanks for the reply. However all m keyed ssds are pcie for purchase and none are 2242. The only 2242 are b+m keyed sata drives and I wanted to verify that worked.
This is an MSI Cubi 2 - with a kaby lake processor and it looks like an m keyed m.2 slot but all the literature I can find says it is sata only. I thought sata is m+b keyed? Also are there m keyed sata only drives or would a m+b keyed sata drive work in this slot? And what is the length shown...
That is why I was more interested in this box - price to performance ratio. Obviously the 1080 would be great but it will be more of a niche item at $1600 or whatever it is priced at. If they could get this priced at $600 for a bare-bones model I would imagine it could be pretty popular.
https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/magnus-erx480-windows-10
If they can come in at a lower price than the Alienware Alpha R2 it could be fairly popular. This would be perfect if it supported NVME drives - the future of SFF computing looks good!
Any thought on adding a USB-C connector to the top panel as well? I know it is not utilized much but to future proof and make your case stand out more to potential buyers.
I was interested in this case because I was going to use it with an hdplex. But at this point it has grown too big for me to really consider it as a viable option. The same thing happened with Dan's case.
To me this looks like the Ncase M1 is placed on top of an expansion case, similar to the Coolermaster HAF Stacker (obviously the Ncase looks way better). I would honestly wait with a mATX design until we see what Pascal brings. If we can power a SLI/Crossfire system off a SFX PSU and the new GPU...
Thanks for the suggestions! I really like the Silverstone line.
To people who are familiar - do you guys backup your media servers or do you just rely on a RAID 5/6?
I know raid is for redundancy only and does not replace backups but do people really have duplicate systems? What solutions do...
Is there a similar style case with 5x hot swappable support in an ITX form factor? This is a perfect case for a plex media server but its not carried at newegg/amazon and am looking for alternatives. Thanks!
Finally got the R9 285 ITX in there! Battlefront was running well - I need to do some benchmarks/temp tests. I was idling in the High 30Cs not sure what load looked like.
I am not sure where I got that sata cable from - maybe performance-pcs? I also don't know what r3.2 is....?
But here are some more pictures!
Feet Added:
All closed up:
Wiring is done:
Hard Drive Cage Mod:
An R9 285 ITX.
For the 24 PIN ATX cable I plan on just using black wire and not sleeving the cable as it will add too much volume. I will also shorten and sleeve the power switch wire and for the time being leave the fan wire alone as I don't have any c type fan pins. However, I could cut the...
I tried the R9 directly in the motherboard and it exhibited the same behavior so we definitively say it is not the riser.
I'd also like to mention that NFC is awesome to deal with, we exchanged some PMs and we worked out a trade and he is taking the Nano off my hands. You can tell he is...