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Sorry those clips didn't work for you. Seems like false advertising on that eBay listing. I have some clips from my M1s that I can mail you. PM me your full name and address and let me know how many clips you need. I'll send them next weekend (I'm away on vacation now).

Thanks Necere for this update. I've always appreciated your willingness to be open with us, to explain the realities of the small case manufacturing world, and especially to seek our opinions and input. These traits made the M1 journey unique and thoroughly enjoyable. My 3 M1s (revisions 1...

I found a package of 10 clips for sale on eBay that claim to be compatible for the NCASE M1, as well as the Lian Li TU150 and PC-Q33 cases. The same search also revealed a free STL file for 3D printing the clips.

I don't believe the changes made to the most recent revisions of the M1 allow a wider motherboard than earlier revisions. Improvements have been made in other areas, including graphics card size, but not motherboard width.

Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks. Really nice routing of all the cables. I escpecially liked how the cables from the 3 fan headers above the CPU socket are folded back, over, and behind the motherboard.

What an impressive build! So much planning must have gone into it and it's evident by how clean and open the interior is. I'm thinking the 3-way splitter and cables behind the front panel must be for fans, but the connectors are unlike any I've seen before.

What a powerful build! Is it only for gaming? I like the silicone bumper to support the graphics card. The filters are working well. How often do you have to clean them? When they are clean do you find they cause your temperatures to rise or the fan speeds to increase (to maintain a...

Yes. But again, do not overtighten the screws that secure expansion cards to the chassis. I use a small PH1 to get the screws mostly tight, and then snug it up just a very small amount with the PH2. Finger-tight is the best way to describe how tight to make these screws. For screws that...

I use a PH1. Do not overtighten the screws that attach most things to the chassis. I use a PH2 for the screws that attach a power supply to its mounting bracket and expansion cards to the chassis via their own mounting bracket.

Be careful about the height of the rear M.2 connector. They come in several heights and I found out the hard way that the one on my son's Asus Z170 Pro Gaming was too short (too close to the motherboard) to accommodate the SSD heatsink from EKWB. EKWB now lists a minimum height for the M.2...

I did not have to pay any taxes or duties for my delivery to (Ottawa) Canada, either. I was really expecting to.

The stock card is listed as 50.2 mm thick so that only leaves 16.8 mm underneath for bottom-mounted fans (total space for expansion cards and the space below them is 67 mm). I read the reddit thread you linked to and it mentions a lack of tabs on the Gigabyte 2080, not the 2070. Gigabyte's...

This post at the SFF Forums contains the Change Log in the first post: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/ncase-m1-v6-info.10687/ Click on "M1 V6 changelog" to open the list. The top panel thickness was increased from 1.5 mm to 2.0 mm for V6, but earlier ODD Top Panels should still fit...

In a SFF forum post today, Necere wrote the following: The plan was for 12pm PST/8pm GMT, but there may be a bit of a delay as I need to confirm the shipping schedule with w360 and it's currently 3am where he is.

I have no direct experience with this, but I have read many positive posts about the Kraken X52. It has barbs that can swivel which makes routing the tubes easier.

SFFLAB is reorganizing and it is covered in this post on the site: https://www.sfflab.com/blogs/news/sfflab-2-0-is-arriving I think Necere posted somewhere (I can't find it) that the Ncase store on SFFLAB should be available before the end of November.

With a window side panel it is not possible to intake air through that panel, of course. Intaking air through the bottom panel distributes heated air from the GPU throughout the rest of the case, increasing the CPU temperature. So, he tried using the rear fan as an intake and set the bottom...

With a window side panel, Optimum Tech found having the bottom fans as exhaust and the rear fan as intake (so rear to front airflow through his NH-U9S) was most effective. Before the window side panel became available, others with hot running graphics cards found exhausting air out the bottom...

Looks like a very clean build, which is even more impressive given that you used the power supply's original cables. Well done! For the stiff USB 3 front panel cable, see the solution I recommended in a post earlier today. I hope this is helpful.

So sorry to read about your broken pins. All USB 3 front header cables are, in my opinion, ridiculously stiff and difficult to manage. This is not unique to the M1. For anyone else facing similar routing difficulty I recommend buying a Low Profile USB 3.0 Header Extender Cable. These have a...

Did you have any difficulty replacing the original 30 mm chipset fan with the 40 mm Noctua? I wouldn't have thought the mounting holes would line up for the larger fan.

This is the first report I've read about such a noisy X570 chipset fan. I had seemed like the motherboard companies were choosing good quality fans. Let us know how the 40 mm Noctua does in both noise and cooling.

Unsleeved custom lengths? I hadn't seen that before. Sleeved cables look bulkier than original cables, but make up for that by being the exact length needed with no excess to fold or tuck away somewhere. Plus, they can be coloured. Still, I think your cables have a sleek appearance that I...

Looks like a very tidy build. Are you using the original power supply cables or custom cables? Also, what are the components of the system?

In addition to the changes you listed the V6 has a more compact Front I/O and I believe a lower cable connection to allow slightly more room for large cards. The best references for graphics card compatibility are listed in the opening post of this thread by the M1's designer: A...

In the first photo the drives threaded hole is visible so it's not covered by the ODD tray's small black metal fold. Oh well. At least it's being held tight enough.

Pre-V6, the ODD tray attached to the optical drive with 4 screws, 2 on the left and 2 on the right. In the V6 the ODD tray uses 3 screws, 1 on the left and 2 on the bottom. The V6 tray has a small piece of metal plate on the lower left side where the pre-V6 ODD tray had a hole for a screw...

Thanks for the link. I will definitely check it out. Yeah, Optimum Tech posted a follow-up video today that stated the previous one was in error. It seems undervolting in the BIOS doesn't work right for Zen 2 CPUs so he used Ryzen Master to undervolt. This application forces the user to set...

I'm in the same situation almost (4790K). I'm in no rush, but a new Zen 2 in my Rev. 4 M1 is awfully tempting. BTW, did you see Optimum Tech's video today? He was able to undervolt a 3900X to only 1.0 Volt. This really reduced the power draw and hence its temperature. Unfortunately, it also...

I look forward to your results. Photos please. I picked up a be quiet Dark Rock Pro TR4 last month when I was in Italy, but haven't installed it yet. It's huge, but less wide than the NH-U14S. I'm not really interested in quietness so I want to replace the be quiet fans with better ones. I...

I can see how push and pull relate to airflow through a radiator or heatsink, but for airflow in and out of a case I prefer to use intake and exhaust.

No, some users have used the NH-C14S. You need to search more. There are complications such as the heatsink being too tall for a 25 mm thick fan on top, so a slim fan is needed there, if one is placed there at all. A window side panel reduces the clearance 2-3 mm more. Also, I think with a...

A larger heatsink with larger fans will always be quieter, in principle. A non-K i7 can probably be cooled adequately by the NH-U9S. You might not even need two fans on the heatsink if you add an intake fan to the rear panel. For the NH-C14S I think you are limited to a fan on the underside...

I believe the Noctua NH-U9S will fit that older motherboard. There have been a few posts here of good cooling results with a window side panel and that cooler mounted to intake air from the rear panel and the Accelero Xtreme with bottom 120x25 mm fans exhausting. Search on YouTube for Optimum...

The Gelid Icy Vision Enhancement Kit for 1080 is really neat, but it's only compatible with FE 1080 and 1070. Not the 1080 Ti, so be aware of this. If you buy an Accelero Xtreme IV and use it on a different graphics card model you will have to buy small heatsinks for the VRAM and VRM.

That was the thought until one owner posted photos of his build with the Accelero Xtreme 4. It's the only one I've seen so compatiblility must be very hardware-specific. Addendum: The GPU -side heatsink is the same for the Accelero Xtreme 3 and 4. It's the 4's backplate with its large fins...

The Accelero Xtreme 3 comes with small heatsinks for the VRAM and VRM, but no backplate. The Accelero Xtreme 4 doesn't include the small heatsinks, but it does include a backplate, though it has cooling fins that may interfere with other hardware on the motherboard.

Way to go! The fact that your motherboard has two PCI-E M.2 slots is great for this type of mod. It's not even a mod. It's been a while since anyone posted about using an M.2 to PCI-E adapter. I don't think there's much you can do about routing the PCI-E ribbon cable. Those shouldn't be...

I think readers had different meanings associated with the words "push" and "pull". These images show that the intended meanings are to push air from the fan into the radiator or to pull air through the radiator into the fan. The confusion may be that that some people thought "pull" meant a...

I can't test it now to be sure, but I think it will fit. Just. A few years ago I did some measurements with an SFX power supply in the ATX mounting bracket. My Silverstone SX600-G came with an ATX-SFX adapter. This combination seemed to mount the SX600-G in the center of the M1 chassis. I...