Roast my build

[mid_gen]

Finally got the 5080 installed, and had a few hours to give it some use. Played Star Citizen for an hour or so, at 6k too Looked very pretty and rock solid stable. Need to install Da Vinci Resolve and give it a good thrashing with some video work later.

Final spec is :
Corsair SF1000 SFX PSU
MSI B860i Ti Edge Wifi
Intel 265k
64GB PNY DDR5 6000 CAS 30
WD Black SN770 2TB
nVidia 5080 Founder's Edition
Noctua N9x65
Noctua 120mm fan exhausting out the bottom.

 

[Tetras]

Wow, there's a lot of chunk in that wee case!

Would it not be better to just merely undervolt it

Power limits just cap it, so undervolting preserves more performance. There's articles on it occasionally, e.g. here. Anandtech had a few good ones. 265K would lose nearly nothing at 125, except fully multithreaded (and even then, I doubt much).

 

[deviation]

Is that bottom fan being smothered by those PSU cables?

Glad you got it up and running though dude

 

[mid_gen]

Is that bottom fan being smothered by those PSU cables?

Glad you got it up and running though dude

The PSU cables do cover part of it, but tbh it's the other side that's important where it's exhausting the heat away from the GPU.

Tbh I'm surprised at the temps overall, the grills on all sides and the top are pretty generous so it's not very enclosed. Definitely gets warm, but will be nice now we're getting into winter

 

[deviation]

The PSU cables do cover part of it, but tbh it's the other side that's important where it's exhausting the heat away from the GPU.

Tbh I'm surprised at the temps overall, the grills on all sides and the top are pretty generous so it's not very enclosed. Definitely gets warm, but will be nice now we're getting into winter

Nice, well as long as it's able to do something and nothing fouls, then win win

Yeah that's turned out sweet, and worth the minor hassle Haha, the right side of your body will be all cosy and the left, all cold

 

[mid_gen]

Well, this didn’t last long. Been away for a couple days. Come to fire it up today and it’s dead. First few attempts the loading spinner freezes, now it won’t even give any signal output. Dead.

 

[mid_gen]

Well, this didn’t last long. Been away for a couple days. Come to fire it up today and it’s dead. First few attempts the loading spinner freezes, now it won’t even give any signal output. Dead.

As per the 50-series thread....after six hours of messing around, removing the build from the case, removing and reinstalling various components, bios updates etc......it suddenly started working again. No idea what was up.

 

[deviation]

It's that case It's been jinxed from the start

 

[mid_gen]

It's that case It's been jinxed from the start

It’s been completely fine since this little issue….used every day. Damn I’m glad I built this when I did and put 64gb in!

Definitely runs nicer with the CPU limited to 125w, it thermal throttles if I leave it on default (250) where it hits 100C.

On 125 it maxes out around 85C even while ragging all the cores with compiling jobs….which I’m fine with.

 

[deviation]

It’s been completely fine since this little issue….used every day. Damn I’m glad I built this when I did and put 64gb in!

Definitely runs nicer with the CPU limited to 125w, it thermal throttles if I leave it on default (250) where it hits 100C.

On 125 it maxes out around 85C even while ragging all the cores with compiling jobs….which I’m fine with.

Nioce!

 

[Di-rear]

hiya bud, just a few questions, obviously the size and look are excellent, what is the disadvantages of this style of pc over a bigger normal tower pc? will it cost more because of the size of things and get hotter quicker because of lack of space?

i wouldn't mind a new build but find standard normal sized gaming pc nowadays are all so big/ugly....yours is way nicer.

 

[mid_gen]

hiya bud, just a few questions, obviously the size and look are excellent, what is the disadvantages of this style of pc over a bigger normal tower pc? will it cost more because of the size of things and get hotter quicker because of lack of space?

The main thing that costs more is the motherboard, but there's not a big difference between a miniITX board vs ATX really, easy enough to check prices.

As I detailed in the thread, I had to compromise a bit on the cooler for this build, because the motherboard has a stupidly large riser at the back. It does mean I have basically the smallest cooler you can fit. If I let the CPU run at full beans it will go over 100C and thermal throttle when I'm pushing all the cores. As it is, I've just set the power limit to 125W and it's running perfectly, goes to about 84C under max load now. I'm not a benchmarker and not fussed about absolute performance.

If you could fit the slightly larger Noctua cooler I originally bought, you could probably run at full power ok, or use a more efficient CPU, think the X3D chips would perform better in that regard?

i wouldn't mind a new build but find standard normal sized gaming pc nowadays are all so big/ugly....yours is way nicer.

Amen to that, no need for a giant ATX these days! I also have a tiny NUC sized box next this this now which is my home server (8c/16t 32GB RAM 4.5TB SSDs), crazy what tech you can squeeze in small form factors now.

 

[Gray2233]

The main thing that costs more is the motherboard, but there's not a big difference between a miniITX board vs ATX really, easy enough to check prices.

If you can fit a larger case in, M-ATX is a good middle ground between ITX and ATX and my go-to for personal builds as I find ITX a little too restrictive. I can't be bothered with midi towers anymore myself, needlessly huge while offering no legitimate benefit for I'd argue 80% of users.

The Lian Li A3 has a very similar visual design but is surprisingly roomy inside for its size, and M-ATX motherboards are super cheap, you can get a good AM5 gen 5 board for £130-140 using the standard.

Plenty of different colour options too:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Lian Li A3-mATX Tempered Glass Micro-ATX Case (Black) (SKU: CAS-LIA-04811) = £59.99
• 1 x Lian Li A3-mATX Tempered Glass Micro-ATX Case (White) (SKU: CAS-LIA-04812) = £59.99
• 1 x Lian Li A3 mATX Wood Edition - Black (SKU: CAS-LIA-02630) = £69.94
• 1 x Lian Li A3 mATX Wood Edition - White (SKU: CAS-LIA-03651) = £69.95
• 1 x Lian Li A3 mATX Black (SKU: CAS-LIA-02350) = £59.95

Total: £343.81 (includes delivery: £23.98)​

 

[bakes0310]

hiya bud, just a few questions, obviously the size and look are excellent, what is the disadvantages of this style of pc over a bigger normal tower pc? will it cost more because of the size of things and get hotter quicker because of lack of space?

i wouldn't mind a new build but find standard normal sized gaming pc nowadays are all so big/ugly....yours is way nicer.

Look up ncase M2 or M3 build that will be my next build and it's a Sff case and fits quite beefy noctua coolers and big Nvidia 5090 cards.