Soldato
Main reason for the upgrade is because I'm tired of dragging my H440 around with me. But damn I love that case. The red and black just did it for me. So now I've had to compromise and go with a red and black manta
Specs are as follows:
The equipment:
Damn this case is pretty!
Thanks NZXT for the great QC!
Thankfully, I was able to get hold of their online manual
This is going to really, really annoy me...
Clearly it isn't my night...
I managed to get some replacement stand-offs
With cable management, my strategy is "shove it in and hope for the best" (not indicative of other areas of my life)
Side note - this resulted in me breaking my sata splitter cable. I spent a good half an hour trying to work out why the SSDs weren't showing in the BIOS
GPU is in
Before (minus my 970)
After! (with successful first time post! - apart from my SSDs not working)
And yes, the motherboard is RGB! It wasn't intentional...
(actually wasn't)
Things to take note of:
Specs are as follows:
- 6700K
- GTX 1070
- 16GB DDR4
- Z270i strix
- H100i (I was going to get an S24, but after giving OCUK a ring, they weren't 100% sure when they'd get them in, so I opted to save a bit of case and get a H100i.
- 500GB Samsung 850 Evo
- 120GB HyperX
- 1TB Barracuda
- NZXT Manta
The equipment:
Damn this case is pretty!
Thanks NZXT for the great QC!
Thankfully, I was able to get hold of their online manual
This is going to really, really annoy me...
Clearly it isn't my night...
I managed to get some replacement stand-offs
With cable management, my strategy is "shove it in and hope for the best" (not indicative of other areas of my life)
Side note - this resulted in me breaking my sata splitter cable. I spent a good half an hour trying to work out why the SSDs weren't showing in the BIOS
GPU is in
Before (minus my 970)
After! (with successful first time post! - apart from my SSDs not working)
And yes, the motherboard is RGB! It wasn't intentional...
(actually wasn't)
Things to take note of:
- Hard drive installation is really tricky, and if you have a 90 degree angled sata power cable - good luck.
- I recommend routing cables and installing radiator first - it's very difficult to do after you've installed the motherboard.
- This case, while big for an ITX, is much more compact than my H440, and definitely recommended if you don't need more than 32GB RAM and a single GPU, as well as a couple of HDDs (could always use a NAS).
- The setup is silent at idle. Much MUCH quieter than my previous build.
- Integrated fan controller on the case supports fan speed controlling - the H440 didn't.
- The motherboard DOESN'T have a USB2 connector, so you'll need a separate cable to setup your H100i (or other cooler).
- The motherboard has an integrated AIO pump header, which while fantastic, doesn't support the H100i, as without a CPU fan plugged into its own header, it won't boot. With a fan splitter and controlling them through the motherboard, it'd be quite effective.
- You'll definitely want a short PSU like my CS550 - you'll struggle hiding cables otherwise (especially with an HDD installed).
Have just done fairly similar myself using a Fractal Nano S. Not the smallest of ITX cases by any means but it's a great solution to having a small system with nearly no compromises (for my spec anyway).
