Recent content by dokebi

A laptop. :)

That is a pretty sweet mod. Any pics from different angles?

Its not a problem with the heatsink mount because if I move the mobo+cpu untouched into a matx case, the cpu temps are reasonable. 32c idle or so and high 50's load which is fine for me using a stock heatsink.

Are none of you guys having problems with cooling in this case? I put a i3 2100 with a stock 2600k sink and it reaches 70+ celsius with 22c ambient room temp. The psu fan also goes crazy and its inadequate for venting the hot air from gpu and cpu. The front fan basicially recirculates hot air...

If you really want a SFX12V FSP model, the 450 watt has 2x pcie and the 400 watt has 1. ITX boards can use regular atx power supplies just fine. The only caveat is if your case doesn't support full sized psus or if you're using a cramped case and could use all the extra space for routing...

The FSP 300 from newegg does not have a PCIE connector. I recently bought one and opened it up. Out of the 2 pads on the PSU pcb, the 4 pin cpu power is connected to 12v2 and all the others are wired to 12v1. Even if you used a molex to pcie adapter, you would be powering the drives, motherboard...

I have real YL's from over 5 years back still working decently while the fakes popped their spindle/bearing. The only difference between the 2 are that the fakes have a smaller motor and from the start, you can feel more resistance, more wobbling and noisy bearings when you spin it with your...

I would never put top fans as intake. My ideal is front and side as intake with rear and top as exhaust.

I guess prices are higher because less units are sold compared to bigger sized things but itx pricing is starting to become ridiculous. This is the kind of thing that will slow mainstream adoption and perpetuate the niche market.

Its on newegg for 127 shipped.

I haven't seen many itx motherboards with more than 4 sata ports. In fact, I've only seen 1 model so far and I haven't seen it for sale anywhere.

Happened to my friend when he had a thumbscrew wedged between the case and motherboard.

Since my AC isn't on all day during the summer, a fanless PSU in this case would be a nightmare for me. The fans on both PSU's that I've experimented with the case tend to get loud and vent a lot of hot air if I'm doing anything more strenuous than browsing. IMO, this case needs an exhaust fan...

I'm curious how you're going to mount those switches. There isn't much distance between the tiny power and reset holes on the case. Will you use a tiny hole saw or drill?

They are inserted into the switch assembly pretty tight and soldered/wired on the other end that goes to the motherboard headers. I unsoldered the wires and pulled mine out with thin pliers. I also drilled the existing holes for the switch with some .5mm drill bits to make inserting replacement...