Dual White

orbitalwalsh

orbitalwalsh

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So begins the next build , as title suggests - its white and will feature Asus's Dual cards which happens to be... White.
MSI Arctic Mortar is the base for the build paired with a i5 6600 and gtx 1070

Quick snap



Parts List

Intel i5 6600- Received

MSI B150 Arctic Mortar - Received

ASUS Dual GTX 1070 8GB - Ordered

Samsung Polaris PM 961 256GB - Received

Seagate HDD 2TB - Received

Corsair Vengeance LED WHITE DDR 4 2666Hz 16GB - Received]

SuperFlower Leadex Gold 550W WHITE - Received
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/supe...0-plus-gold-power-supply-white-ca-043-sf.html

BitFenix Prodigy M White + Window - Received
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitfenix-prodigy-m-matx-cube-case-arctic-white-ca-142-bx.html

BitFenix WHITE Pro Spectre LED 120 x 4 - Received
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/bitfenix-spectre-pro-120mm-fan-white-led-white-fg-093-bx.html

Alpenfohn Matterhorn WHITE Received
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/alpenfoehn-matterhorn-white-cpu-cooler-hs-051-al.html
 
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Any cooling? Some white rads perhaps? Or are you going with some old-school air-cooling?

Any accent colour or lighting? Could look quite...er, white with nothing.
 
Cenedd said:
Any cooling? Some white rads perhaps? Or are you going with some old-school air-cooling?

Any accent colour or lighting? Could look quite...er, white with nothing.
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Was half tempted to grab the Braided Red cable set when they were on sale but was to slow :( Fans are White just for some light but colour maybe needed in some form

First build with white and a touch of red...mmmm




Quick Play around with layout and installation - which I will add is a pain in the arse! Easier in the Jonsbo then the M. The PSU brace was to small and had to whack the PSU in, holes aren't tapped properly or there is excessive paint in them as well as covering screws letting you believe the product in 50% assembled then sprayed.



Cables shouldn't be a problem like they were in the UMX3. HDD will be mounted next to the PSU allowing the cables for it to be short, tucked under the mobo and hidden behind the PSU or tray.
Also see PSU is mounted with the fan fulling in cold air from the front. would have looked pretty with fan showing but rather have cold air flowing through it and case will have a balanced air pressure rather then negative.
CPU 8 Pin hides nicely around the back of the tray, just a shame theres no 90 degree 24 pin adapters on the market !

ASUS Dual measures the length of the board so falls short of the PSU which is also short in height at 150mm . The larger 650 and 750 models should fit fine with cards of 240mm length and shorter.

Bit of a shame I cant squeeze in an 80mm fan at the front, would have liked to tip the balance of the pressure to positive. Havent heard the Pro Spectre on full wack nor used the fan controller on this board before so may install NZXT Grid+ to control speeds- onl downside is would that dim the LED as well?

Polaris PM 951 256GB was meant to slot in the M.2 slot. With the Strix card the side of the card was left open so air - although warm to hot, could blow across it. Dual is more closed off. May move it to top PCIe slot and use a adapter with heatsink just under the intake fan.
From reviews the SM version stays at 50c but will throttle at that temp over long periods of work by about 250 MB/s, which isnt the end of the world really.
 
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That certainly is an odd layout. Interesting though.

I tried the Bitfenix Spectre Pro but in 200mm. They were awful - very odd and annoying noise. The Aerocools I have now aren't much better but at least they're quieter - doesn't seem to be a good selection of thin 200mm fans available.

You might be able to get some VGA heatsinks stuck on the chips of the M.2 SSD. Would need to be low profile - and white, obviously - but I reckon you could get between 10 to 15mm of height under the graphics card. My 20mm heatsinks took the temperature down about 10C
 
Hopefully airflow will be good. Cold air being forced onto the GPU which is open end and will pass out and be dawn out by the bottom fans.
would have gone for Parvum (Wingboost) F1.0s in white but would need a lighting kit on top. Hoping these would kill two birds with one stone.
I can pick up Aquacomputers M.2 PCIe cooler for £20, just have to wait a bit for it to come into stock ;/

holding to my guns and keeping the PSU fan hidden, looks god aweful but should thank me for the cooler air and less dust
 
harvey.l12 said:
Nice clean build
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Thanks, hopefully will be as clean as can be once everything is in place.

Got the mounting mech installed for the cooler and couldn't help a quick placement snap!



Phone makes the sink cream which it isn't, but the wingboost is more so, Parvum ones came pure white when I last uses them.

ASUS Dual 1070 just arrived to.
 
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Test fitted the Dual 1070, hi res shots to follow

Not to impressed with the mounting of the Prodigy M for PCIe cards. will expland more later





if space isnt an issue and you want an asus card, my advice would be to save up for a STRIX and plasti-dip it white! retail price theres more of a difference then trade price but trust me, its worth spending the extra. There is no option to water cool this using NZXT G10 as VRMs are on the left side, they are covered by a thin heatsink and will receive warm air cooling them down. Strix allows the VRM to spread its heat along the whole heatsink. Theres 2 pipes vs 5 as well with a much larger sink under the hood of the strix

Dual does work in this case as it can work with larger then 150mm PSUs which would be needed for SLi/ XFire in this case space limits. Also feel justified for not having the PSU fan on show. small gap between the GPU and its self, indeed air can always flow down the side but least it will not be competing with the CPU cooler.

Will be adding some sink to the back of the GPU die area and VRMs, was thinking about a Coldzero plexi backplate but having a bit of black isnt to bad. Hopefully with two fans blowing down on the Dual, it should be kept cool and thus have fans spinning at a lower rpm and washing down to the bottom of the case and out.
 
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photobuck is down so unable to post pics at the moment. build is 99% done with boot up and final pics to be taken :D

managed to have a closer look at the ASUS Dual, saw half of the memory chips are left naked......

will take the card apart on the weekend, luckily mem heatsinks have been ordered from ocuk. was hoping to attach to the rear of the car but looks like some will have to go on the chips. Absolutely shocking for the price of them !
 
First boot up into bios.
Phone can making the light blue in the day.



Lesson learnt, plug in HDD before CPU/GPU ....
Also make sure CPU header hasn't come loose , bottom fan connected through it as well :/
 
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I would be tempted to disconect the bottom fan as it may interfear with the air flow from the cpu fan and exhaust fan. Check temps then maybe try it dissconnected.
 
mickyflinn said:
I would be tempted to disconect the bottom fan as it may interfear with the air flow from the cpu fan and exhaust fan. Check temps then maybe try it dissconnected.
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Bottom fan is exhaust as well. Running off the CPU fan via its own daisy chain splitter. So air is being pushed down in from the top and out the right corner
 
LewisRaz said:
Looks so nice!

Have you considered removing the dvd drive bracket? I did it in mine it looks much cleaner.
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thought about it but due to selling it, wanted to keep it in there in case its needed. also helps hides some sins :D

last of the aweful phone pics!



CPU fan could have done with being illuminated in m mind, maybe one of corsairs new center glowing ones.
Fans are a bit loud but mobo has them at a default loud. my hope that connecting the bottom fan to the Wingboost CPU fan via its spliter would control its speed.... nope, running at full whack whilst it stays at low rpm during idle.

Case does need a tough of colour. Braided cables would have done a lovely trick of bring out some but this was meant to be a cheap base model and come sin just under a grand :)

Needing to install the ASUS Dual bios, havent checked the ram type but bios does contain 0bd/ fan stop which is needed. Currrently fans were set to full speed before Asus Tweak program and even selecting the silent program fans still spinning at a faster rate then I'd like.
Normally I set a profile of 20% for idle work to keep airflow over the card and moving around the case with 80% at 70c , at least with the Strix model so will have to see how this fares out.

FYI, the Dual card is a 2.1 slot card! thought it would be fine for SLi using mATX boards such as the Gene with both cards back to back but this wouldn't be the case with the dual.
 
Bantu said:
I like it.. it's a nice clean-room type look on the inside.
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Thanks, just realised that I had to take the GPU to reinstall the CPU fan and didn't hide the PCIe power cables well =/

still have to take it out again to attach ramsinks to half the naked chips as well as the backside of the card =/

looking forward to getting some night shots, should be a lot better then the day time ones
 
Thanks for the comments. Next time I'll think I'll ditch the fans and use Parvum F1.0s for the intake and exhaust as found on the CPU cooler, and just use standard white LED strip which can be powered by the board.
Since current fans are controlled by the mobo at 50-75% the brightness has also been affected .

Also speaking to a client to bring an ATX version using S340 elite in white along with Sabertooth S

Got more night shots which I need to upload
 
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