Cheers, bet you never wished you started this thread now?
Lol, not at all, I'm glad it's inspired/helped people out
My first SFF build
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Lol, not at all, I'm glad it's inspired/helped people out
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Hey,
I think you should be on comission Drexel, I reckon ocuk will sell the kit to make about twenty more judging by the peoples interest in your thread. I'm keen to see if you find any limitations in the system over the next few weeks.
I think you should be on comission Drexel, I reckon ocuk will sell the kit to make about twenty more judging by the peoples interest in your thread. I'm keen to see if you find any limitations in the system over the next few weeks.
The MSI GTX460 I had was far from silent, was fine for surfing etc, but under load got quite loud, the Gigabyte on the other hard is virtually silent
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Does the gigabyte run as cool as the other one though?
Can anyone link me to a cheap good DVD drive (possibly slot loading?) for the SG05
New stuff to me
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.
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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?
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?
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.
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Hi,
Does heat affect ssd's like it can mechanical hard drives though? Those temps are pretty damn good for the airspace involved though!
Does heat affect ssd's like it can mechanical hard drives though? Those temps are pretty damn good for the airspace involved though!
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.
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.
8.5" if you mount the H50 like I have.
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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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
Will be interesting to see how dusty it gets, as Shuttle used that description. But they lacked any filters.