Real Time Overhaul
- Thread starter Ken
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Yep, will hide cables once I've got my replacement but as Roalith mentioned I don't think there's much in the way of hiding spots besides behind the hard drive cage. The cage will be loaded with all my drives so the cabling won't be visible. Good thing the Seasonic is modular too. I'm going to email OcUK now that I've just sent the parcel as I'm inclined to stick with the Enermax brand and go with the Platimax range...
Thanks mate, will rerun it once I have my replacement PSU installed and then again after overclocking.Nice looking build you got here ! p.s. Heaven benchmark should be run again with Tesselation set to high I think
OcUK have received my RMA and thanks to Joseph for accepting my refund request!
Pretty much set on the Enermax Platimax 850W.
Wasn't quite happy with the way my SSD was mounted as you can see from the photo below. The anti vibration mounts were installed on the front of the Akasa and I was forced to awkwardly screw in the back end of the Akasa SSD mount to the HDD cage. I also used my new LIAN LI HDD mounting kit screws. The thread stops mid way so the rubber gromets are not squashed.
Cleaned off the thermal pads once I had removed the drive...
Tada! Smarter look and doesn't look as make shift in the case compared to the Akasa mounting method.
Pretty much set on the Enermax Platimax 850W.
Wasn't quite happy with the way my SSD was mounted as you can see from the photo below. The anti vibration mounts were installed on the front of the Akasa and I was forced to awkwardly screw in the back end of the Akasa SSD mount to the HDD cage. I also used my new LIAN LI HDD mounting kit screws. The thread stops mid way so the rubber gromets are not squashed.
Cleaned off the thermal pads once I had removed the drive...
Tada! Smarter look and doesn't look as make shift in the case compared to the Akasa mounting method.
Nah still working but would rather use the latest SATA 6GB/s 7200 rpm drives than the Velociraptor as a boot drive. It makes too much noise and isn't day and night difference compared to my 2TB drives in terms of speed.
Fair enough. Wonder how necessary that heat spreader is on them - I mean, can you put it into an external caddy, for instance, and just make sure that the drive has thermal pads to pass the heat to the surroundings....?
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I think he's just doing it for the looks - SSDs rarely get above 35 degrees if that. He's using the heat spreader as the drive mounting bracket
While I'm waiting for the refund, I have just installed my old C300 into my laptop...
Asus U36JC...
Pretty thin...
Battery, memory and keyboard/mousepad ribbon cables disconnected...
Upper case removed...
HDD out, SSD in...
Everything back in...
Time to prepare the ISO/USB as this laptop doesn't have an optical drive. Should be a world of difference over the 5400rpm HDD
Asus U36JC...
Pretty thin...
Battery, memory and keyboard/mousepad ribbon cables disconnected...
Upper case removed...
HDD out, SSD in...
Everything back in...
Time to prepare the ISO/USB as this laptop doesn't have an optical drive. Should be a world of difference over the 5400rpm HDD
Big thanks to 5UB for the delivery today. Was meant to receive the 850W Platimax as a replacement for the Seasonic that blew but it wasn't available so he offered me the 1000W version instead at no additional cost! What a guy! 
Overkill but I will partially justify the extra wattage with a 2nd 670 in a few months time. The 1000W is also a "super overclock edition" with a single rail. Got a Bitfenix Recon too...
What a monster PSU...
Quick cable tidy for now...
It's no where near as grey as it looks in terms of the controller and the Blu ray drive...
The below is with the central heating off and shows the idle temps with just the Noctua D14 running on the middle fan only with an ULNA...
And below is with the central heating on with both D14 fans and 3 case fans running all at the lowest setting on the Bitfenix...
New desk layout...
Almost a silent setup now. I can just hear the hard drives and a slight electrical noise from the Enermax. It's low frequency and barely audible now that it's all in the case with all the panels on and because I'm sat at a distance away. Silent PC review states there's no electrical noise from the Platimax but just like graphics cards it's hit and miss with electrical noise.
Overkill but I will partially justify the extra wattage with a 2nd 670 in a few months time. The 1000W is also a "super overclock edition" with a single rail. Got a Bitfenix Recon too...
What a monster PSU...
Quick cable tidy for now...
It's no where near as grey as it looks in terms of the controller and the Blu ray drive...
The below is with the central heating off and shows the idle temps with just the Noctua D14 running on the middle fan only with an ULNA...
And below is with the central heating on with both D14 fans and 3 case fans running all at the lowest setting on the Bitfenix...
New desk layout...
Almost a silent setup now. I can just hear the hard drives and a slight electrical noise from the Enermax. It's low frequency and barely audible now that it's all in the case with all the panels on and because I'm sat at a distance away. Silent PC review states there's no electrical noise from the Platimax but just like graphics cards it's hit and miss with electrical noise.