M-ITX Devils Canyon build

DJ_Bucho said:
I love those little Corsair cases, and that picture of your desk setup looks awesome. How are those speakers by the way, a friend of mine was thinking of buying them, he's read a few reviews which have all been positive but he said he'd really like to hear from someone that actually has them. If you could let me know what you think of them I'll pass on your comments :) cheers
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Sorry, missed your post. Speakers are excellent. I can't have them too loud because of the neighbours (they go very loud) but I think the bass and treble are spot on.
 
Not much of an update really, build is on hold for a few months whilst we save for a new car. Had to wall mount my screen as the desk started bowing! It's now resumed its shape thankfully.
 
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Followed a few threads on the net using this case for builds and it seems as nice as the front panel is, it does restrict air flow a great deal so I think I'll be running it without. With this in mind I've swapped the fan out for something a little less dull looking and managed to squeeze a 200mm bitfenix spectre pro in. Also relocated the radiator fans to the outside but will probably swap those out as well to something that looks a bit nicer. I intend to take a dremel to the case and mod the side panels and remove the plastic fittings on the front where the front panel is held on, alternatively I may try cutting the front panel so it's still there as a surround. I'll see how things go. I've bought some brushed aluminium sheets that may get used to tidy the front up should I cut the plastic fittings off. Should be getting the ram and cpu in the new few weeks.

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Hi,

This is getting strange :) looking identical to my setup. Have the same 200mm bitfenix fan at the front. Is yours led ? It looks like yours fits better than mine. I had issues with installing it with the h100i and the fans on the inside, is that why you moved them ?

Must say though looking good.
 
Not seen your thread, do you have a link? I decided against an LED fan, I may add LED's to the inside of the machine at some point though. This is the fan I've used: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-034-BX&groupid=701&catid=2331&subcat=2335

It's a very snug fit, looking at it I doubt it would have fit with the radiator fans on the inside. I actually moved the radiator fans anyway, seems the flow would be better with them on the outside rather than having to pull through the case then the dust filter and then the radiator and additionally they were butted right up against the motherboard which I wasn't happy about. I will be swapping the fans though, grey fans just look ugly.

Ignore the mess, obviously I will tidy that up once the other components are in.

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I decided there was no point using this case if I wasn't going to keep the panels on as I chose it for looks as much as what I could fit inside so I've squeezed the radiator fans inside which actually fit ok with the 200mm fan up front. I'll just have to see how the temperatures fair.

I intend to finish this build this week but it won't be with the i7 and 16GB as originally planned. Reading reviews and looking at benchmarks I acknowledged that there really was no point having 16GB when 8GB is still more than enough for gaming and it would appear that an i5 4690k will handle games just fine for a few more years at least and why shouldn't it, my i5 760 isn't struggling yet and that's 4 years old now and running at stock 2.8.

Having looked at my game drive on the current pc it's almost pushing 500GB with only a handful of choice games installed so I've decided to have a separate SSD again for the OS and programmes and keep the MX100 512GB for games only.

So my to buy list now stands at:

Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £52.99
 
definitely a good choice of parts there. I can vouch for the ram, I used to have it. great piece of kit
 
Noticed the write speed on the MX100 128GB is pretty low so going for a Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO instead.
 
Just finished putting my 250D together and i love it after going from a bitfenix shinobi.

I like the idea of the external drive so the drive cage isnt needed. The less obstructions to air flow inside the better. Something to think about for me. What temps have you been getting on your h100i? mine is idleing around 27C on normal load.
 
No idea on temps yet! This is still a build in progress, should be buying the missing bits later this week.
 
So I was faffing about last night and span the 200mm bitfenix fan by hand and it's a good job I did. The fan blades protrude outside of the fans case and it caught the pc case as it spun. I've had to refit it with some rubber washers which is now a super tight fit what with the radiator fans right next to it.
 
very nice build, simple but effective, especially when the Mrs is forcing to you swap out your old one :p I was going for this case on my new build I am starting next week, but decided I would pick up the Corsair 380t as I want to be able to take it easily to friends and family / LAN's.

other than that, GREAT BUILD
 
Last bits arrived yesterday. Should have been friday but somehow they ended up at the wrong DPD hub.

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Pics to follow later. The 2 F8s were for exhausts but due to the H100i's tubes being in the way I could only fit one. This is my first MITX build and I underestimated how fiddly it'd be. Had to take the radiator out completely to install the RAM. Screwing the pump bracket to the mounts was pretty hard as there's very little finger space. With fitting the 200mm front fan I found I'd restricted access when installing the graphics card so had to try a few angles before managing to get it in. Plugging the SSD cables in and cable management was time consuming.
 
With such a small case there's not much to show! Picture makes the cables on show look worse than they are. The braided ones are flat on the bottom and the others are out of the way as much as possible. I managed to cram all the power cables under the drive bay section.

The Samsung 840 EVO SSD is so much faster than my old corsair F60. Windows 8.1 now boots in approx 3 seconds, it used to take longer and that's without any fast boot options turned on. If I turn my pc on and then press power on my tv/monitor windows is actually on the desktop before the screen has turned on.

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Looking good mate, I'm strongly thinking of this case for my next build, well either this or the Enthoo Evolve.

I just picked up another 8gb of the TeamGroup 2666 to go with my 8gb of the frost edition, I can't understand why the 2400, is more expensive than the 2666 £59 compared to £79, odd very odd. ( That's not on the weekly deal either )
 
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