Except the gold feet/plugs idea I totally agree with adamantium's suggestions. Especially the HDD cage to be used with the side bracket in the upper position.
It's shitty ASUS Impact onboard front panel output shielding and/or sound card design... It's catching noises from PCI-E bus. I have also this MoBo in M1 and also others are experiencing this problems with various PSUs (there is a discussion thread on ASUS ROG forums). If you run something data...
Mine PP05-E cables arrived last friday and I've had the same thoughts. I've decided to cut the cables to some reasonable length exactly as you think, still waiting for molex power connectors and rethinking how would I redirect the hot air from graphics card somewhere else from HDD cage.
IncubusBob:
MSI R9 270X HAWK or N760 HAWK fits (watch out for PCIE power connectors, these cards are a bit wider) and are pretty quiet. The only problem is the produced heat during gaming if you have 3.5" HDDs in cage about graphics card. I'm now running my M1 with 270X HAWK without 3.5" HDDs...
I think that nobody deleted it, the row was only hidden - sometimes somebody looks for solution and sorts the sheet it only shows water or air cooling (e.g. if air selected, water is hidden)...
Evangelion:
My tests with 4670K -> http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040447827
Note that my test was a bit extreme. In normal conditions the Cores are bellow 50°C in load... I'm running my SE14 fan with black reduction cable = 900 rpm max. At idle about 550 rpm... And it's pretty quiet. The...
It will fit. I'm running M1 with Impact and C12P SE14 with hdd cage...
Photos from earlier build (have to make new ones with GPU and 3.5" HDD's inside)...
http://tomasovic.eu/?1056
http://tomasovic.eu/?1057
As you can see here http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040450022&postcount=8255 resp. here http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040417147&postcount=151
I've already tried that with no luck...
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040414029&postcount=141
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040417147&postcount=151
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From what I've read in asus rog forum, it can be issue with Silverstone PSUs, but I didn't test it with other PSU and I don't think its purely PSU related. Now I'm...