DAN A4-SFX: The smallest gaming case in the world

The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?
YOU BET!
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Well if you are going fully custom anyway you might as well make the top part 170x170 and extend above the GPU slot or even further, which you couldn't do in with any other case that does not use a riser card. Also I would kind of appreciate a black (and maybe silver) option, just like the case, instead of the Noctua standard colors. They will probably like it if you don't use their "CI" anyway. Damn the longer I think about it the more I want a full copper, nickel platted, MONSTER heatsink in that case.
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

As much as I'm interested, I'm very weary of blindly trusting you with coolers after already buying a c7 based on your recomendation.
 
As much as I'm interested, I'm very weary of blindly trusting you with coolers after already buying a c7 based on your recomendation.
LOL
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

just make a 5mm less tall version of the Gabriel cooler from deepcool
GABRIEL-9-1.jpg

http://global.gamerstorm.cn/Product/Gabriel/

and then slap a Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 12 fan on it and BAM, a 50mm cpu cooler that clears the ram with a big 120mm above it
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

I wounder is it possible to use Noctua Experience to get it perform perfect.

I want a low profile cooler max hight, it will have this possibilites and high performing fan silent and more requirements and they developed it for you and manufacture it for you ??

Faster you can get out this product the better for us and your company ofcourse it will cost you extra to let them develope some bit of the cooler but im shure you get it back.
 
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I like the concept of the fan being under the heatsink myself. I would pay up to €100, I mean plenty of people pay that for a Corsair h100... I think it would be great if it worked in other sff PCs, you could potentially make more from it than the case! Only problem is development time, at least a year?
 
Fan under the heatsink works well for super low profile (like our sub 47mm), but permitting a 120mm on top gives plenty of options for different height and performance flexibility. such as having a 15mm or a 25mm fan for 62 and 72mm clearance.
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Very interested. I had to give up my favorite nh-l9i for the Thermolab LP53 because the noctua just couldn't handle my i7-4790K even at stock. All 100% copper makes a huge difference! So what ever you do I suggest all copper including the fins, with nickel plating if necessary.
 
Very interested. I had to give up my favorite nh-l9i for the Thermolab LP53 because the noctua just couldn't handle my i7-4790K even at stock. All 100% copper makes a huge difference! So what ever you do I suggest all copper including the fins, with nickel plating if necessary.

For the dan case, can we put the 14mm height noctua fan on the lp53 so it will fit? What would the mounting process be? Is this the one Linus used in his video?
 

Excellent reply. I'm about to pull the trigger on an lp53 from South Korea on eBay and play the waiting game. I'm running a C7 open air on a delidded 7700k and hitting max temps 75C while playing Overwatch at 165hz. That's a bit too high for comfort. I have the L9i here too for when my Dan case arrives.
 
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The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

I am planning on getting the cooltek LP53 + NF-A9x14 as well if there is no other alternative that is under 47mm height. In fact in the thread for sentry case backers that has around 922 backers there is huge demand for a decent cpu cooler under 47mm height, specially if it can handle 95w. Ask the same question in that thread and I am sure you will get more than 20 people interested.

I mean for US buyers the cooltek LP53 + NF-A9x14 combination is easily a 70$ purchase.

Good idea if it can be fitted in both A4-SFX and the SaperPL Sentery, you will have more users interested in backing it.
 
Amazon also has the LP53 for US buyers, but it's about for about $15 more. Just bought it, plus the A9x14, 100mm and 120mm Scythe slim fans to test. We'll see if the Scythe 120mm fan clears my RAM, might not. If it does, I like the idea of a giant fan blowing air over the whole board...
 
Excellent reply. I'm about to pull the trigger on an lp53 from South Korea on eBay and play the waiting game. I'm running a C7 open air on a delidded 7700k and hitting max temps 75C while playing Overwatch at 165hz. That's a bit too high for comfort. I have the L9i here too for when my Dan case arrives.

7700k is a hot chip. I can't say for certain you'll get significantly better temps than the c7 but it is worth trying. With the lp53 and NF-a9x14 I was getting ~6C better than the nh-l9i on my i7 4790k

Amazon also has the LP53 for US buyers, but it's about for about $15 more. Just bought it, plus the A9x14, 100mm and 120mm Scythe slim fans to test. We'll see if the Scythe 120mm fan clears my RAM, might not. If it does, I like the idea of a giant fan blowing air over the whole board...

Be sure to report your findings over on the review for the lp53

Honestly the NF-a9x14 already overhangs the lp53 on each side by a few mm so it sends fresh air over the ram and vrm on my z97n-WiFi board.
 
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7700k is a hot chip. I can't say for certain you'll get significantly better temps than the c7 but it is worth trying. With the lp53 and NF-a9x14 I was getting ~6C better than the nh-l9i on my i7 4790k

It's worth a try to cross over into the safe zone under load. The potential for 6-10C lower at load with acceptably quiet operation is worth it for me. I just want to game without worries :) in a tiny case. Live the dream.
 
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It's worth a try to cross over into the safe zone under load. The potential for 6-10C lower at load with acceptably quiet operation is worth it for me. I just want to game without worries :) in a tiny case. Live the dream.
c7 and lp53+a9x14 almost same perfomance in my test.
But if you want to be quiet, lp53(40mm height) is worth it.
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Count me in.

Not much shorter than the taller one, like ~2mm shorter maybe.

Thanks for the info.
 
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The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Yes, would definitely purchase. Please consider make sure it works with the Asus Strix Z720i motherboard.
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?
Would buy if it works with tall ram like the TridentZ. Imo some kind of very flat fan grill for the fan would be nice to stop any wires jutting out of the board from going into the fan.
 
Be sure to report your findings over on the review for the lp53

Honestly the NF-a9x14 already overhangs the lp53 on each side by a few mm so it sends fresh air over the ram and vrm on my z97n-WiFi board.

Thanks for your thorough review, I recommend everyone here read it if you're pearl-clutching over your CPU cooler choice, like me.

The Scythe fans I got were a hot item about 4 or 5 years ago in SFF building, the 120mm one is the one that comes with the Big Shuriken 2 Rev. B, which silentpc rated favorably in the noise department, except these are not PWM. (I am hoping the z270I can do voltage control on them.) The 100mm is its baby brother (maybe the one that comes with the Rev. B3?).
 
Really big help on your Estimates on cables there.

150 mm, 24 pin
250 mm, 8 Pin
250 mm , Pcie

Are this lengths confirmed ??

I also wounder how long Sata power i need for a front SSD from SF600 Lenght on cable ??

I can't comfirme untill I have done custom cables. I will try to make some later this week.
I think you may need longer PCI cable if you want sleeved cables because it will not fitt between PSU and GPU.
 
Yes, would definitely purchase. Please consider make sure it works with the Asus Strix Z720i motherboard.

I guess this is a bit the pickle these SFF designs have - it's supposed to be as generic as possible so anyone can put whatever miniITX and GPU they want in it, but in reality everyone's* going to use the same z270i, 7700(k), CPU cooler, GTX1080 etc that we come up with as a community as being optimal. Once we're at that point might as well just integrate the whole mess into something like a Steam Machine or HP Z2 and call it a day :D

*statistically, not literally
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

We may be interested along with our backers as long as it doesn't stretch over whole motherboard blocking our hard drive slot :)
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Interested too, of course :)

edit... With noctua ? Tell them to buy black plastic for their fans. Or pink, or green, or yellow... Whatever you want... But not brown ! ;)
 
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For me too... 56 € for France.

I ordered one aswell. I know it's going to get taxes added to it in customs (+23% for me in Finland), but I wonder how accurate the Amazon estimated delivery date is. Because it's really weird for this one. Amazon says there were 2 in stock, but the estimated delivery is in may to june. Like... how? Do they canoe across the Atlantic?
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?
Think this would be really cool and I would support it!
I guess compatibility would be really challenging since there are memory of all heights and different motherboard layouts which you have to take in account but a manufacturer like Noctua would be able to help with compatibility issues.
 
Interested too, of course :)

edit... With noctua ? Tell them to buy black plastic for their fans. Or pink, or green, or yellow... Whatever you want... But not brown ! ;)

I know, the brown is so disgusting!

I'm thinking of getting the C7 and machining 5mm off the top at my work, maybe a bit more than 5mm, that should quiet it down? It will lose a bit of cooling mass but not that much. I'll have to hold the fan on slightly differently but that's a minor issue I think.
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

Like many other I agree it would be interesting, but is it feasable? Have all available options been exhausted - it would be a great same if you put time and money info, and another product can compete in price and performance.
However, if there is no competition or it requires heavy modning e.g. grinding and so on, I would say go for it! (and back it up myself)
 
Im in the same situation , Ive a c7 and a nexus on the way not sure what do, Im going to wait and see if anyone comes up with a solution for the c7 and if not sell it, only bought the nexus as it was selling fast so might end up selling that as well.

But if dan comes up with a good solution then ill happily pay top dolla
 
The Nexus is nearly end of life and is hard to get it, so i thought about developing my own heatsink.
The heatsink will be very similar to the Nexus, but with more heatsinks and the option to mount a 120mm fan under it. It will include a bracket to shift the fan if you don't have low profile ram. I think about Noctua as manufacturer.

Will be somebody interested in something like this?

You can count me under "strongly interested." I too am looking for a great cooler under 47".

Ideally it would have the fan under the heatsink, as you mentioned; that would be a lot quieter. However, that makes it a lot harder to provide clearance for RAM.

I have a feeling that I speak for a lot of us in the SFF community when I say that I have absolutely no qualms about being limited to super low profile RAM if the trade-off means we get a larger cooler that's quiet and helps cool the motherboard.
 
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At the CES Thermaltake showed a 37 mm version of their engine 27 cooler.

Might be a good idea to check for a 47 version? may be a version with more coper in a square format instead of a round format?


http://blog.livedoor.jp/wisteriear/archives/1063633814.html

A 47 mm version should be able to andle 90 W and even more.

Defenetly interested in a bestpoke cooler solution for the A4.
 
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