Recent content by Philfreeze

I would recommend you get in touch with some bigger local corps (IT departement), I am pretty sure one of them will be able to negotiate some deal with the school. Companies usually really like to give you old stuff they would usually throw away and write it off as charity (which they could) or...

That is no heatsink, real heatsink have curves (or fins to be more precise), I would call this a slab of aluminium or a block of aluminium.

Very interesting, please post some pictures as soon as you have a build with MoBo and cables.

Wow, it is basically a cheaper version of the A4, that is incredible! Just look at how the insides look, they are basically the same. The main difference is in the construction of the outer shell and it looks to me like it doesn't require the same tolerances as the A4. Meaning that it is...

Oh and I did a thing. Dropbox-Link to video May the RGB be with you! I am gonna upload a better and a bit longer video when it looks a bit better.

Just for your information. If you are a proud owner of the copper AXP-100 do not attempt to bend it back after you bend it once. I did it with the normal version and it worked just fine and then I attempted it with the copper version (both for testing reasons by the way) and now I am a sad owner...

Adafruit also has multiple fitting heatsinks. One MOSFET is around 6x6mm which means your heatsink should preferably have a width and length of roughly 6mm. (0.25-0.27inch from Adafruit work for example). If I remember correctly Z270i has 11 MOSFETs which means you should use 11 heatsinks. I...

Rockit Cool Link This one is an alternative, they delivered it to me (Europe) in about a week.

You should make a survey where we can grade how much we would approve of each feature. So for example we could rate the clean front with 1-5 points and the branded front with 1-5 points. Then you can basically total up the points and you should see which version would have a higher acceptance...

I would say there that the alu fins where within the test variance of the copper fins. It is almost impossible for the aluminium fins to be better than the copper fins. It would have to be because of the colour (different radiation spectrum; effect is tinny though) or the surface finish (which...

Some more front IO would be nice (SD card reader anyone?) in a case this size.

Don't get me started (again) on those stupid heatsinks it annoys the hell out of me. These boards are so expensive and they can't even give you proper heatsinks.

How did the noise change?

Hey guys, I know this is kinda off topic but may of you guys have similar hardware so you might be able to help me. I just wanted to do some thermal benchmarking with the new instruments I got and with a replacement motherboard (Asus Z270i). The problem looks like this: The CPU POST LED turns...

they are more or less Z270s with better VRMs so they should work just fine.