** EVGA Hadron Air Mini-ITX Case **

chippy08 said:
That review shows the problems this case has so not for me well not until they make some changes and i was expecting better for the price.
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yup looks can be deceiving that is why I posted the review and vid ;)

Perhaps in hadron 2.0, an engineer may apply some thought and design to it!
 
Looks great until you see the 500w quality bronze power supply lol.It wont be bronze rated much when it is being pounded to 90% capacity all day long.

Even a corsair 500w in a high end system i would give it 2-3 yrs max before a cap blows.
 
Rofflay said:
Looks great until you see the 500w quality bronze power supply lol.It wont be bronze rated much when it is being pounded to 90% capacity all day long.

Even a corsair 500w in a high end system i would give it 2-3 yrs max before a cap blows.
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What the devil are you on about.

An overclocked high end system with one 7970 card can justabout reach 400W under load.

At idle the same system is likely to be getting along on 100W+

Those are very reasonable demands for a 500W power supply as long as it is capable of its rated wattage.

The PSU claims 480W on the 12V which is sufficient for even a very substantial overclocked system.
 
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Hotwired said:
What the devil are you on about.

An overclocked high end system with one 7970 card can justabout reach 400W under load.

At idle the same system is likely to be getting along on 100W+

Those are very reasonable demands for a 500W power supply as long as it is capable of its rated wattage.

The PSU claims 480W on the 12V which is sufficient for even a very substantial overclocked system.
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It has 40A on 12v im not questioning its ability to run it they ran it on a Titan but did they overclock haswell much? Can it handle Haswell at 4.6 and a Titan and SSD and all the rest all day long at 90% load?


Thats my question as efficency surely nosedives once the heat and load % builds up? It has a 40mm fan only, and you intend to push it to within 10% of its limit for years.To be frank meet my uncles OCUK Q6600 Corsair HX650w powered system built by OCUK.


Six months ago he woke up to a dead pc and a smokey PSU.And it took his motherboard and other bits with it.That system lasted preoverclocked for just shy of 3 years and went boom.I feel a lot safer knowing that my PSU is not breaking a sweat all day long as he lost pretty much everything important and was out of warranty.To say he was gutted was an understatement and he currently over specs now on his PSU with an AX850W on Ivy and Titan as ive just sold him my rig in sig minus the graphics.
 
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The smallest end of the high performance case market is always a compromise to get the size down.

In this instance they have dumped the large standard ATX power supply, you can see the spec so you do your research and you make your choice.

Overspeccing wattage isn't a miracle cure, that HX650 was much more than your uncles computer needed, it was from a popular enthusiast brand and it still got a bad dice roll and failed as a % of them always will.
 
chippy08 said:
What about cable management any good in this case as i see a lot of cables coming from the psu?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59EGzccaT40
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There are not that many cables as it is only mini ITX, there are some clips in but if you want to have it very clean and nice it is probably best to go for this nice single sleaved extentiones then you can hide the normal cables from the PSU under the graphics card. With the Stinger motherboard you would also not see that much of the cables as the 24 pin is on the right site and for the CPU power you can use the clips at the drive box..
 
If I hadn't recently picked up an HD7990 I'd have been all over this, love the look of the case :) the Gold Rated PSU completes the package although I'd love to see the pricing/availability on the Hydro ;)
 
Will the integrated psu be sufficient to run the high end gfx cards?
What options do you have if you were looking to put a higher Watt PSU? Are you restricted by size?

Cheers
 
Rofflay said:
Looks great until you see the 500w quality bronze power supply lol.It wont be bronze rated much when it is being pounded to 90% capacity all day long.

Even a corsair 500w in a high end system i would give it 2-3 yrs max before a cap blows.
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Its a 500w gold PSU, how can you miss that?
 
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