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Anyone paint or otherwise change the color of their silver M1? I have a silver V4 but am sort of pining to make it black these days to match the rest of my setup. I'm assuming from the factory it comes black anodized if you choose that, but do I have any options on the silver to reliably go...

Reporting in 3 years later - I've got the X99E-ITX/ac still running strong with my weirdo engineering sample 12-core Xeon E5-2676V3, Noctua NH-C14S, 32GB RAM and MSI GTX 980 Ti. It's been in my backpack and travelled all across the country, done countless overnight transcoding sessions and long...

Anyone running a 2-slot 2080ti in their M1? I've got an X99 12-core Xeon e5-2676v3 + MSI GTX 980 Ti setup that's been great to me over the last 3 years running on the silverestone SFX 600w PSU and wondering about fitment, cooling, and power concerns with this setup if I go with a 2080Ti this...

Can you post a basic step by step on your process to getting Yosemite running and/or the utilities you used? Unibeast 5 or 6, or neither? The kexts used and tools used to inject them? I've been following X99 guides on tonymacx86 including one where the user had a 2676V3, but I've been stuck at...

Awesome build. What kind of work do you do using the 2676? I've got one but cannot get any of the Adobe apps (namely Premiere Pro CC 2015 and After Effects) to take full advantage of the CPU under windows 10 during export. The same exports on my Retina MacBook Pro 15" load up all cores, but on...

Which Ncase version do you have? I'll have to take a look at mine when I get home and see if it's actually too low or too high, I forget which direction it was off.

If you could help me out that would be incredible, I've been trying to get OS X installed for weeks now. I think part of the issue is potentially my Xeon 2676 V3 but I've been trying 10.10.3 for that reason. I actually got to the point where I had it installed, and Nvidia web drivers working for...

Which board? I didn't have any issues with my Asrock X99 ITX's I/O shield going into my V4. I mean, to be honest the ports are a little bit off height wise if I remember correctly, but not to the point where there's any issue. Are you saying your board sits too low due to standoffs being a...

Genuinely curious, why does this change things? Doesn't on average the 980 Ti provide better overall performance than SLI 970s?

I think you can, your 2X SSDs will go up front (or one in the M2 slot if you're into that too) behind the case's faceplate, and your 3.5" HDD can go on the side bracket that usually holds the 240mm radiator. You just need to use some sort of big air cooler and watch the clearance on the right...

Do unlocked 10+ core Haswells exist? My E5-2676 V3 ES would be insane if it were unlocked.

The one you linked is correct. I have one too but realized that the stock Broadcom/Azurewave is compatible with OS X and the 7260 isn't. I haven't had any issues with the stocker just yet but I have both in case it goes nuts.

Yeah it's MSI's Twin Frozr cooler. Is creating a duct more beneficial than having fans on the floor of the case blowing fresh air up at the card? I've heard that typically adding fans to this case doesn't benefit too much in exchange for added noise, but I may have one or two laying around that...

Okay so I finally got low profile PCI-E power cables and am able to fully enclose the case. After a solid hour or two playing BF4 in 4K/ultra/SweetFX, my MSI 980 Ti looks to have been steady at 91C the whole run. My CPU I wasn't graphing but it barely idles at 32C and I don't see the fan ramping...

I don't have an issue with third person RPG-style stuff running at ~35fps, especially story-driven stuff that can be cinematic, but for anything FPS or remotely competitive obviously the desire is to be muuuuch higher than that. As soon as I can both test video editing / encoding in OS X and...

Yeah I do understand that and almost went for a 5820K (after not wanting to spend a grand on the 5960x considering its age at this point), but since at least half of the use case of this computer is going to be heavy video editing (oftentimes with 4K source footage), after effects, and some...

Also I'm not sure blower vs non-blower is as big of an issue as it is on paper. My MSI 980 Ti (Twin Frozr) throws a good deal of its heat out the back despite being a top-down cooler, but I'm not sure how the ACX is. I do know there are lots of people using non-blowers in this case without...

Ooh, nice. Any more pics of that rig? Always good to see a compact splash these days amongst all of us NCASE owners.

I'm trying to figure out what the net gain would be here, or better yet what kind of performance I'm missing out on at 2.4-2.8ghz on my Xeon E5-2676 compared to what I almost bought, which was a 5820k or 5960x. Honestly, I've been running games beautifully at 4K on the 980 Ti such as BF4...

Okay, replacement P2415Q has arrived. Pretty nice, but coming straight from an old Ultrasharp 2407WFP there's a bit more ghosting - is this typical? It's not terrible, but I was getting used to my 2407 after having it in storage forever. Also, have a pretty ugly "warm yellow" splotch on the...

You can for sure fit a very well cooled i7 6700K and a 980 Ti (check your measurements, each model is a different size), but I'd bail on the idea of fitting 3.5" HDDs in there. You can maybe fit one in front of the PSU/next to the CPU cooler, but they're typically big airflow killers. I've got a...

That adapter looks aftermarket, what kind of car is it? I think I used to have a similar kit, I'll try to track down what it was. There may be more hardware to the kit behind a door in the glove compartment or behind the radio if you were to pull it out. Usually a box with the ability to plug an...

Yosemite 10.10.5 has native support for X99, but I haven't finished the job yet. I got OS X up and running last night with full GPU support thanks to the nvidia web driver, but found out that the ASRock supplied Wifi/BT card isn't compatible, nor is the Intel 7260, so I'm looking at replacing...

Yeah, we'll see long term once I can get some projects through this thing whether the 2676 is worth keeping in there or not. I'll likely wait till the 5960x drops in price with the newer chips replacing it next year. Considering I got the 2676 for 300 bucks, I figured it's worth seeing how 12...

I don't think this card fits. Looks like it's 330mm long and maximum length for the NCASE is 317mm. It's also 13mm wider than my 980 TI Gaming 6G which already baaaarely clears the side of the case and needs special power cables to do so. I'd recommend the one I've got if you're looking at MSI.

I've tried my hardest but the MSI card seems to be wide enough to prevent standard power cables from clearing. Have you seen 90 degree adapters anywhere? I've been searching for days and all I come across are dead eBay links from years past and no leads on currently available 90-degree...

Welp, I got my P2415Q in the mail about an hour ago. Set it up, ran through a few games of Battlefront before firing up Premiere Pro - not 20 minutes into use I started getting horizontal lines, glitching, and then it popped to black with the glitched desktop image fading away slowly, lines and...

So on my Xeon E5-2676 - it stays super cool with the NH-C14. Is base clock overclocking really ill advised? My only PCI-E peripherals are the 980 Ti and the wifi card if that's PCI-E. My SSD is SATA and I've got Corsair DDR4-2133 ECC memory in 2x16GB configuration. I understand the basics of it...

I do have this issue too. This and the GPU power cables preventing me from closing the side panel are my only gripes right now. One USB3 port in use, everything's good. Two in use, wireless keyboard goes nuts / hangs.

You too! Very much so enjoying the holidays with my M1 V4 now housing 12 Haswelll-E cores and a 980 Ti :D Seriously though, does anyone know if low profile 8-pin GPU power cables exist? Without them I have to run the case with one side off.

Having just built mine, I could agree with that for sure. My NH-C14 equipped Xeon E5-2676 runs near silent at high load with the fan at like 380RPM. The MSI GTX 980 Ti gets very loud and hot while gaming by comparison and is definitely the loudest thing in the case, with the SX-600 being a...

Timing forced me to - it's got no components in it! Just the case. I filled it with a sweatshirt and some tools wrapped in the middle. I'm traveling with a lot of camera equipment so unfortunately that takes precedence over the empty NCASE. I'm building it in MA and need to get it back to Los...

Traveling from LA to Boston with my boxed up NCASE filled with random accessories. Had to check it, so my retail box is going to take a beating, but I've got a shiny 980ti, Asrock X99 mobo and 32GB of ram waiting on the other side. Hope it doesn't get pummeled too hard under there. And I hope...

Ah, looking super close at review images reveals this to be the case. Awesome. Just a last minute panic that I may have forgotten one crucial thing. Last computer I built was in 2005 - socket 939 AMD. Thanks!

Whew, just ordered my parts! This is what I ended up with: NCASE M1 Silverstone SFX 600 watt PSU Asrock X99-E/ITX Intel Xeon E5-2676 12-core - eBay special Noctua NH-C14 cooler 32GB Crucial DDR4-2133 ECC memory (2x16gb) MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G Sandisk 960GB Extreme Pro SATA SSD (I'll go M2...

On the subject of speakers, does anyone know of an internal speaker that would work well with this case? I like having the versatility of a small built in speaker and can't remember where I've seen one in a build.

I have the opposite problem - an empty case with no parts except a Xeon somewhere in mail world. The D9 looks proper in there too, never thought of using that one but it seems to make more sense having it just dump the air out the back rather than push the air down and then around the rest...

Hmm, not sure actually. I've just seen the C14 used the most in this thread but haven't seen a D9 fitted in any pics (also it's hard to search because of it's two characters). Do you know of anyone running this cooler? Also, regarding OS X, I found this thread...

I'm doing a lot of Premiere Pro CC 2015 4K h.264/XAVC work, some After Effects work, DaVinci, and a little Cinema4D here and there (which I hear is totally CPU bound, not sure if it likes faster single thread or core count). I may run a small Hackintosh partition as I've seen it done on this CPU...

Awesome. It's a voltage issue, not cooling right? Seems the cores are set at around .875v to account for the fact that there's a ton of them. I wish you could switch off cores/adjust voltage to effectively create a 5820K or 5960X for those times you want higher single-core clocks. You sort of...