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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    Good point. I guess the difference there is that there's relatively low heat density, and space to provide enough heatsinking? Whereas scaler ASICs with cooling demands have a lot less surface area for a heatsink to be effective on, and therefore forced air is needed?
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    Not well. Power consumption is absolutely ridiculous, response time can almost be measured with a stopwatch (IIRC it's something like 63 ms), contrast ratio is... not modern. So, funny story with that: IBM was actually thinking along those lines, on the DG5 (the version I have). They decided...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    It depends on what's putting out the heat, and what needs cooled. CRT and plasma displays, it's the display tube or panel itself that's emitting the heat, and there's nothing particularly temperature sensitive in there. LCDs with fans aren't cooling the panel, they're cooling the scaler...
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    24" Widescreen CRT (FW900) From Ebay arrived,Comments.

    I wonder if this VM2322 firmware update would work on the Sunix devices: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/fwdphb07.exe (Make sure a monitor's plugged into the Sunix device before running that.) Also, if you do try it, might be a good idea to run it in a command prompt with the -v...
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    Biostar Racing X370-GTN ITX AM4

    X370/B350 aren't strictly necessary on a SFF AM4 board (the X/B/A300 simply being SPI-attached security chips, as I understand), but there's benefits to having them. If you want any USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, more than four USB 3.0 ports, any USB 2.0 ports, more than two SATA ports, or more than 24...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    I have not. The push-pin mounts aren't my preference by a long shot, but they do work. One thing that can help is removing the fan from the heatsink, and mounting it to the chassis instead (maybe cut a spacer out of 2 mm thick material to guide the air into the heatsink, although I'm quite...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    A couple routes to take, really. The first route is air - the Scythe Kabuto II is what I run, and I'm quite happy with its performance (although at stock clocks). For water, I'd run a custom loop with a waterblock on the GPU, too. Now, I've got concerns about your power supply choice - I'd...
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    "Traditional" layout super dense ITX gaming case?

    There's always flipping the power supply fan to be an intake, although that'll void the power supply warranty, and expose the modder to hazardous voltages.
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    Yes, I'm using one fan, side panel, intake to the CPU. No exhaust fans anywhere in the case, the only fans are the PSU (intake from right side, so it's not interacting with the case at all), CPU intake, and GPU blower.
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    Overclocking, a duct may be called for, but at stock clocks, I don't have one. As far as the GPU being so hot... it's a blower-cooled reference-based 960, that PNY slightly overclocked. (Even then, it's hitting the TDP limit at the same time as the thermal limit...) A duct may be helpful there...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    For what it's worth, with an i5-6600K (although at stock clocks), running four threads of Prime95 and FurMark, this is what I get (with the stock Kabuto II 1300 RPM fan running at a bit over 1000 RPM, unmounted from the heatsink, and mounted to the chassis fan bracket (which takes it 2 mm away...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    And my build is completed and running. Assorted thoughts: Aluminum is thermally conductive. The right and top sides of the case get warm. But, I'm not stroking my case, and that's conducting heat away from the components, so I'll take it. Temperatures are good, and noise is low enough for...
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    DAN A4-SFX: The smallest gaming case in the world

    The problem with those is signal integrity could be severely compromised. USB 3.0 has some rather heavy duty requirements for shielded twisted pair or shielded twinaxial cable, and that's very much not that.
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    New to SFF, wondering about build for office

    Like I said, you might also look at the micro desktops. The ThinkCentre M900 Tiny Desktop, OptiPlex 7040 Micro, and EliteDesk 800 G2 Desktop Mini would get you a 35 watt quad core in about 1.1-1.2 liters (and the EliteDesk is available with 65 watt CPUs, although I really wonder how loud it'd...
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    NCASE M1: a crowdfunded Mini-ITX case (updates in first post)

    Ah, looking over docs on USB 3.0, I see the point there - shielded(!) twisted pair being required makes things really tough, and apparently the EMI considerations are significant, so I guess motherboard manufacturers are just going to have to learn to put the USB 3.0 header well outside of the...
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