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Hey,
The is a very interesting looking case (with a super interesting price) - I'm tempted, just wondering if anyone has experience of building in it and has any general advice?
What I have currently in my Phanteks Enthoo Evolv matx (housing it's second build)
An AMD 5600X
NZXT Kraken X61 AIO watercooler/280 mm radiator, with a couple of Noctua 140mm replacement fans & a thin anti vibration rubber gasket totalling a depth of around 54mm)
Asus TUF B500Mplus matx mobo,
The chunky Palit RTX 3080 Gaming Pro (294mm (L))
Couple of older 8gb ram sticks that need updating to some 3200mhz+
a terrible old pci wifi card need to upgrade to a wifi 6 card
An EVGA 750w G2 ATX PSU (85mm (H) x 150mm (W) x 180mm (L))
From what I've read re specs things should fit in but there's a little bit of an unknown element as I know depending on the exact position or dimensions of the psu, the max size for other components will be affected (patricularly the length of the gpu). Does this thig house a standard size PSU? Or would it require one of these smaller form psus that you can get these days?
My currents setup sadly has the GPU fans sitting just a few cm [edit 1.7cm!] from the [ventilated] PSU housing, I think this is restricting airflow pretty badly and causing me to have to run the fans with a super aggressive profile, making it VERY loud (fans at 90%+ sometimes to keep 79c) if I want to avoid thermal throttling, the D31 looks like it solves this issue with its PSU mounting position.
My idea was, perhaps it would be cool to install a VM of Steam OS and run it on the case screen (similar size to the Deck i believe), so I can tinker in my Linux ignorance, breaking stuff to my hearts content without messing up my actual Steam deck, anyone tried this? Silly Idea?
Reluctant to get rid of my Phanteks as it has some sentimental value as it was on of the last presents mum bought me before she passed a few years ago, but I would likely use it for a second rig, or perhaps hand it to my brother to get him back into PC gaming (I could never adjust to playing FPS games online with him over the xbox, even tho it's has such a nice controller).
Cheers
Edit: I had previously tried another [used] 3080 from a well known high street hardware/games exchange store and it had similar thermal struggles, it was returned as I was convicted it was a fault with the card - oops.
The is a very interesting looking case (with a super interesting price) - I'm tempted, just wondering if anyone has experience of building in it and has any general advice?
What I have currently in my Phanteks Enthoo Evolv matx (housing it's second build)
An AMD 5600X
NZXT Kraken X61 AIO watercooler/280 mm radiator, with a couple of Noctua 140mm replacement fans & a thin anti vibration rubber gasket totalling a depth of around 54mm)
Asus TUF B500Mplus matx mobo,
The chunky Palit RTX 3080 Gaming Pro (294mm (L))
Couple of older 8gb ram sticks that need updating to some 3200mhz+
a terrible old pci wifi card need to upgrade to a wifi 6 card
An EVGA 750w G2 ATX PSU (85mm (H) x 150mm (W) x 180mm (L))
From what I've read re specs things should fit in but there's a little bit of an unknown element as I know depending on the exact position or dimensions of the psu, the max size for other components will be affected (patricularly the length of the gpu). Does this thig house a standard size PSU? Or would it require one of these smaller form psus that you can get these days?
My currents setup sadly has the GPU fans sitting just a few cm [edit 1.7cm!] from the [ventilated] PSU housing, I think this is restricting airflow pretty badly and causing me to have to run the fans with a super aggressive profile, making it VERY loud (fans at 90%+ sometimes to keep 79c) if I want to avoid thermal throttling, the D31 looks like it solves this issue with its PSU mounting position.
My idea was, perhaps it would be cool to install a VM of Steam OS and run it on the case screen (similar size to the Deck i believe), so I can tinker in my Linux ignorance, breaking stuff to my hearts content without messing up my actual Steam deck, anyone tried this? Silly Idea?
Reluctant to get rid of my Phanteks as it has some sentimental value as it was on of the last presents mum bought me before she passed a few years ago, but I would likely use it for a second rig, or perhaps hand it to my brother to get him back into PC gaming (I could never adjust to playing FPS games online with him over the xbox, even tho it's has such a nice controller).
Cheers
Edit: I had previously tried another [used] 3080 from a well known high street hardware/games exchange store and it had similar thermal struggles, it was returned as I was convicted it was a fault with the card - oops.
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