My first SFF build

randal24 said:
Quick question for you DreXel - did you have to modify the mounting plate for your H50? Just doing some reading and there are quite a lot of people out there saying the plate fouls a component on the bottom of the board... :(
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I didn't mod mine, no. I have since read about the issue of it fouling components underneath, but I did mine before I had even read about any issues and it's been fine. If I were to do it again now I would do the mod just to be sure, but I'm not about to take it all apart again :p
 
Tute said:
Drexel, out of interest do you run with just the SSD for storage or do you have a bigger, external drive?
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Just the SSD, I have the OS, my mainly used apps and a couple of games on it. All my music etc is on my NAS drive.
 
Sorry, missed that post. Front audio is near the back of the board (I/O panel end) near the PCI-E slot.
 
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Yes, without the H50 you can leave the standard drive cage in place which houses one 2.5" drive and one 3.5" drive.
 
Snooble said:
Can anyone link me to a cheap good DVD drive (possibly slot loading?) for the SG05

New stuff to me :)
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I personally use a Samsung SN-T083C dvd/rw drive. It's not that cheap (£35) but it's a nice drive and suits the SGO5 nicely being quite minimalist.
 
tommytinkle said:
Drexel,

How are your temps under full load in that case? Have you tried a decent gaming session yet to see what good usage warms it up to? Do SSD's suffer from high heat like hard drives do?
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Yep, been playing through Crysis again. CPU Load temps are around 55c, never any higher than 60c, and the GPU hits ~73c max. SSDs hardly put out any heat at all.
 
Yeah, it's a great little case which is really well ventilated, and the front 120mm intake fan creates positive pressure inside the case and forces the hot air out through all the ventilation holes :)

Heat is not an issue with SSDs, obviously you don't want to be sitting one on top of an active CPU heatsink, but with normal case temps it shouldn't be an issue.
 
Tute said:
Drexel mate, just looking at the ATI 6 series but I was wondering, how long exactly do you have to play with in terms of graphics card in order to still be able to accomodate the H5O?
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8.5" if you mount the H50 like I have.
 
randal24 said:
Any gotchas with the i5/H55N? Did you top out at 4ghz, or get it any higher?

Cheers
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Just make sure you leave load-line calibration off, if you switch it on at anything above ~3.4ghz it spikes the current and trips the overcurrent protection on the board which manifests itself as a hard lock requiring the power to be physically switched off and on.

Mine will boot into windows at 4.2 but it's not stable at all. I've actually backed it off to 3.9 now (186 x 21) because I was getting the occasional BSOD at 4.0. I've found that this board/CPU combo overclocks best when leaving everything on auto apart from the vcore and ram voltage. When I manually try to set the QPI/VTT it immediately becomes unstable for me.

So yeah, basically to get a rock solid 3.9ghz my settings are:

Base Clock - 186
Multi - 21
Turbo off
LLC off

That's pretty much it, everything esle is on auto/default :)
 
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Dust doesn't seem to be an issue so far, the filter on the SG05 seems to be working well :)
 
Tute said:
My question to you Drexel (and I promise this is the last one ;)) - do you think a slim 120mm fan would be able to cool well enough for a modern processor?
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I honestly don't know, my temps are great so assuming a slim fan won't raise temps that much it'll probably be ok.
 
The SG05 will take a 9" card as standard (or 9.5" if you get a card with power connectors on the top).
 
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