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Do you have any pointers for where to begin? Purely out of curiosity about how it all works, at this point.

Oh wow, this is amazing! I don't have any use case personally for any of your current adapters, but I am absolutely fascinated by your work. Just out of curiosity, I've made a few basic PCBs myself for hobby projects, at the level of Arduino shields with I2C, SPI, and similar stuff. How much...

Has anyone here mounted their A4-SFX behind a VESA-mounted TV or monitor? If so, how? I've found a number of VESA mount brackets for game consoles, Apple TVs and similar equipment, including some "universal" ones, but nothing that would fit something as "big" as the A4 or similar sized cases...

Either could work. I think two M.2 slots stacked vertically could work for some front M.2 slots in combination with a small enough CPU cooler. E.g. on my Gigabyte Z370N and Noctua L9i, the space directly above the front M.2 is empty. Two or four M.2 slots horizontally *might* work for some...

How difficult would it be to make something like this but in M.2 format (x4 -> x4x4 or x4->x4x4x4x4 for instance)?

Ah, that's a bit bulky for a small form factor. :/ I was hoping for something like an M.2-size card with two riser cables. Interesting to know that an switched solution exists for full-size PCIe though - perhaps as M.2 becomes more widespread, something will be released for that form factor too...

Does anyone here know of any options for attaching two or more M.2 PCIe SSDs to a single M.2 slot? Could be either through bifurcation (if any motherboards support M.2 bifurcation), or even better would be using a PCIe switch.

Dynatron T318 with a Noctua A9x14 ziptied to it is the standard option for X99 in the Dan A4. I still have a T318 lying around that I don't need anymore, in case you can't find it easily available. edit: Oh, didn't see that there was another page and you already figured it out. Still, offer...

Oh, I was just thinking that 4x16G SO-DIMMS plus a new board might still be cheaper than 2x32GB DIMMS. ;)

Another alternative would be to go with the EPC612D4I board, which has 4 SODIMM slots. That would give you even more capacity, and quad channel. Should work with non-Xeon CPUs, I think. Or go for X299.

Most 32GB+ moduels are RDIMM or LRDIMM, which won't work with non-Xeon CPUs. There isn't any 32GB UDIMMS on the market as far as I know. Samsung recently released some 32GB SO-DIMM modules. IF they released a 32GB UDIMM, then in theory it might work. Or you could try with a SO-DIMM to DIMM adapter.

Did you ask DPD to send it to the parcel shop? I thought I would get mine delivered home today, but just saw in the tracking that it's at a parcel shop too. Not happy about that...

I imagine they might be able to repair and resell them. If it's just the soldering it might be as simple as reflowing them again. On a vaguely related noted, I've been hunting down some VLP RAM over the last few weeks and have ended up with an extra Crucial/Micron 2400MHz 16GB module...

As far as I understand it, they had all of their European orders shipped from Taiwan to EU together, and will be dividing them into individual customer shipments here. So I assume customs and VAT will be taken care of by them. But I could be wrong.

I wouldn't be sure it's a software issue; if you didn't change anything software-wise I'd consider hardware errors too. Running memtest86 might be worth running for instance to rule out a problem with RAM. Hard drive IO errors can on occasion cause a system to freeze too, though I haven't had it...

The x99e-itx does indeed route the USB pins on the miniPCIe slot, can confirm that from using a BCM94360CD card with it, which needs USB for bluetooth too. Perhaps not relevant for you since it's the stock card anyway, but just in case anyone else stumbles across the post in the future.

I assume the fan header is three-pin, i.e. no PWM? As pendragon points out, a 5V fan driven with 12V supply will probably not survive long if at all. Are you sure you need the fan to spin at 5V? I'm using a Noctua fan on my Corsair SF450 PSU. The Noctua also has a higher starting voltage than...

I can't comment on the Delta fan, but I can say that the startup voltage of the A9x14 doesn't seem to be a problem at all. I've had one in my SF450 for probably about two years now, and it's still running perfectly fine. In fact, I'd consider it a plus that the fan only starts spinning at a...

Eh... If it's half price I'd be willing to take the risk. ;) I've had completely differently-specced modules mixed before, and didn't have any problems.

Yeah, it's certainly not a consumer oriented part. Perhaps it's also a relatively recent release, and just hasn't made its way to (business-oriented) suppliers yet? The 2666MHz ones seem to be a bit easier to find, although still too expensive to be a reasonable option. There's actually one...

Ah, wasn't sure if you're supposed to link to specific online shops, but I assume in this case it makes sense: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mta18adf2g72az-3g2e1/micron-technology

The Innodisk ones seem to be available for 226 USD each for the 16GB sticks at 2666MHz, if you google the part number: M4U0-AGS1WCIK They seem to be CL19 at 2666 MHz. CL17 @ 2400 and CL15 @ 2133. According to https://www.simms.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/DDR4-VLP-UDIMM.pdf There's a...

Personally I'd prefer plain cables, makes it easier to cut them to size and solder directly onto the board. ;) But I'd probably get the kit version anyway if that's still coming. Just out of curiosity, you posted a picture earlier of your SFX plus picoPSU system earlier, to get rid of the bulky...

Yikes. Yeah, reviews of that are terrible. It looks like they also have a few tower coolers with a vapor chamber base plus heatpipes on top of that, similar to the Sapphire limited edition system. And some even with "heatpipes" directly integrated into the vapor chamber. Alas, none of those have...

Interesting. Taking that as true fact for a moment (I can't be bothered to take everything apart again to try myself at the moment), this would suggest two things to me. One, GPUs are indeed just easier to cool, and the performance of the vapor chamber heatsink on the CPU is as good as could be...

Hm, with all the GPU talk, I'm actually getting tempted to try putting the L9i on my GPU, just to see what happens the other way round.... ;)

Yeah, I was surprised too, from everything I had heard I thought none of the existing off-the-shelf coolers could - hence my interest in the vapor chamber coolers to begin with. Direct contact and die size are the two main things I can think off too. Not sure about spikey heat output on CPU -...

Nevermind. Curiousity got the better of me, and I ordered myself a Noctua NH-L9i for comparison. Results are mixed. For most of my tests, I compared different heatsinks (GPU heatsink with or without copper shims, T318 with one or two copper shims, and the L9i heatsink), all just lying on top of...

Quick update: I have done some more experimenting, and it looks like indeed there was an issue with mounting pressure; also with the thermal paste - I used some old no-name paste from eBay that's been open a couple of years, thinking it wouldn't make _that_ much of a difference for an initial...

Ah, okay. I've only been playing around with it for a few hours, and for simple things it seemed very intuitive. But that's good to know for anything more complex I might want to work on.

To add to that, Fusion 360 is also great, and surprisingly easy to use. I managed to get a simple mount adapter designed in there in an hour or so, never having touched the program before. Plus, free for students, since you're in grad school.

Yep, it's from a reference 1080Ti, found one (just the heatsink) on eBay for next to nothing. I think most reference vapor chamber heatsinks are more or less identical. At least, the vapor chamber seems to be a standard part, from Wakefield-Vette. Same for the Dynatron ones! The only one I've...

No, not delidded yet. That is the main reason I did not bother with getting the thermal paste perfect yet, as I will delid the CPU in a week or so, once I get a copper IHS. I will probably put liquid metal between IHS and heatsink as well. Will report back of course. The processor is all at...

Good point, should have tested that first. Turns out it goes up to close to 100 degrees and then thermal throttles. Given that the heatsink is from a 250W GPU, I'd expect a litlle better than that. Could be partly because I didn't take too much care with applying thermal compound when mounting...

I have recently switched from an x99 + i7 5820K system to a Z370 + i7 8700K. I found the lack of good cooling options frustrating, as I understand many others do. With socket 2011, the standard cooler recommended here and elsewhere seems to be the Dynatron T318 heatsink, plus a fan of your...

Yeah, I just figured if I print it in something soft and rubber-like it'll just flex back to the right height. But since the side panels on the A4 are only screwed in on the bottom, that didn't quite work out. And yeah, not strictly necessary, with the adapter it's probably not a big difference...

I ordered some of these off 3dhubs as well. These are brilliant. Finally my computer isn't held together by blu tack anymore! :D I had mine printed in a rubber-like flexible material, as I thought that might provide some extra vibration dampening. Drawback is of course that the fit is not as...

Hm, I'm not sure either. Judging by the relatively small price difference perhaps it's just different shipping / packaging options? I vaguely recall that there was two similar options when I got mine as well, I think we went for the official standard one.

You can get stuff 3D-printed and mailed to you these days! Check out 3dhubs.com for instance.

Not much more interesting on the inside, I think, but there you go. I was wrong - it's a molex cable, not SATA power. Same principle either way: Find 12V and GND wires, cut and strip them, and solder onto a DC jack of your choice. Then solder appropriate DC plugs onto an appropriate cable to go...