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I'd prefer not to.
I'm just going to buy a DisplayPort hub to run off of my single port.
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Raijintek Metis ITX [Build Log]
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I'd prefer not to.
I'm just going to buy a DisplayPort hub to run off of my single port.
can you provide pictures?
Have been waiting for parts that fit into this case and are good enough. Have had CPU from august, just yesterday ordered RAM finally ( F4-3200C16D-32GVK ), motherboard is still a bit of a decision but maybe VIII Impact (good RAM support; DTS Connect; missing M.2 is a bit bummer though... not sure I want Intel 750 as they are also overpriced) => I kind of hope there will be some ASUS Z170I-PLUS (which has not been even announced; with 2280 M.2 NVMe support; with DTS Connect or DDL (which almost no Z170 ITX has atm); and with fast memory support (like impact)); but GPU options will hopefully arrive Q1/Q2 2016 ... I really want to build with arctic islands ... or if they somehow are bad, then pascal (anyway I need/want GTX970mini/R9Nano size card with at least 980Ti power, to run Vive(which incidentally also arrives Q1/Q2 2016 to wider public). 970 is too weak for that and Nano is too expensive and barely manages. and 980Ti-s are too big for this case because I have full ATX size PSU).
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commander_
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Sorry for the late response, but here's pictures of what I did with the DisplayPort hub.
I used a Belkin splitter that also act as a hub for $32.
https://imgur.com/a/EPrky
My specs:
- i5-4670k
- ASUS Z87i-Deluxe
- Crucial Ballistix Tactical LP 16GB (2x8GB)
- Sapphire R9 Nano
- WD Blue 1TB 3.5" HDD
- Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" SSD
- Silverstone SX600-G 600W SFX PSU
- Phanteks 140mm CPU Cooler
- Slim 120mm Fan as an intake
This along with a custom branded GPU power connector and a cheap RGB LED kit makes this a great case.
Hi all,
I posted in the wrong section yesterday, so I post again here, Please delete my other topic and sorry for the mistake!
BTW I really like this forum and this topic section. I've build a configuration and mounted it just 2-3 days ago:
PSU: Silverstone ST30SF SFX 300W
CPU: i3-6100 Skylake 3.7 Ghz
MOBO: AsRock H170M-ITX/DL
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x4gb (8gb) 2133mhz LPX Red
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250gb 2.5"
HD: WD Caviar Green 2TB 5900rpm 3.5"
CASE: Raijintek Metis Silver
I use this PC for office/websurfing and occasional gaming on steam, but I really want to change the stock CPU cooler for a better one, because the noise in normal mode via BIOS is too much.
For my needs and specs, which cooler could be the best? I'm looking for a really silent one, because this tiny machine is in my bedroom.
Thanks, I'll post some photos next week!
EDIT: Actually I'm really undecided between Noctua NH-U9S or CRYORIG H7
I posted in the wrong section yesterday, so I post again here, Please delete my other topic and sorry for the mistake!
BTW I really like this forum and this topic section. I've build a configuration and mounted it just 2-3 days ago:
PSU: Silverstone ST30SF SFX 300W
CPU: i3-6100 Skylake 3.7 Ghz
MOBO: AsRock H170M-ITX/DL
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x4gb (8gb) 2133mhz LPX Red
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250gb 2.5"
HD: WD Caviar Green 2TB 5900rpm 3.5"
CASE: Raijintek Metis Silver
I use this PC for office/websurfing and occasional gaming on steam, but I really want to change the stock CPU cooler for a better one, because the noise in normal mode via BIOS is too much.
For my needs and specs, which cooler could be the best? I'm looking for a really silent one, because this tiny machine is in my bedroom.
Thanks, I'll post some photos next week!
EDIT: Actually I'm really undecided between Noctua NH-U9S or CRYORIG H7
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Sorry for the late response, but here's pictures of what I did with the DisplayPort hub.
I used a Belkin splitter that also act as a hub for $32.
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
My specs:
- i5-4670k
- ASUS Z87i-Deluxe
- Crucial Ballistix Tactical LP 16GB (2x8GB)
- Sapphire R9 Nano
- WD Blue 1TB 3.5" HDD
- Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" SSD
- Silverstone SX600-G 600W SFX PSU
- Phanteks 140mm CPU Cooler
- Slim 120mm Fan as an intake
This along with a custom branded GPU power connector and a cheap RGB LED kit makes this a great case.
Great build.
I must say, according to your picture, this Sapphire R9 Nano port placement is kind of retarded
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Hi commander_
I have a question about your build. Mine is similar:
• i5-5675C
• MSI Z97I
• 2x4GB RAM
• EVGA GTX970 SSC
• 2x256GB SSD
• Silverstone SX600-G 600W
• Thermalright AXP-100 Muscle Cooler
• 120mm Thermalright slim intake fan
We have the same PSU and similar power requirements. The problem is that once I put my GPU under full load, the computer will randomly reboot after a short while. CPU/GPU temps stay below 60/70C, so I'm thinking it's the PSU.
Allegedly, this PSU is pretty heat sensitive and has poor airflow. Did you have any problems with yours? I've already endurance tested my sytem with an ATX PSU with similar specs, so now I'm trying to figure out if it's heat or a faulty unit (many complaints about that on newegg) that is the problem.
I have a question about your build. Mine is similar:
• i5-5675C
• MSI Z97I
• 2x4GB RAM
• EVGA GTX970 SSC
• 2x256GB SSD
• Silverstone SX600-G 600W
• Thermalright AXP-100 Muscle Cooler
• 120mm Thermalright slim intake fan
We have the same PSU and similar power requirements. The problem is that once I put my GPU under full load, the computer will randomly reboot after a short while. CPU/GPU temps stay below 60/70C, so I'm thinking it's the PSU.
Allegedly, this PSU is pretty heat sensitive and has poor airflow. Did you have any problems with yours? I've already endurance tested my sytem with an ATX PSU with similar specs, so now I'm trying to figure out if it's heat or a faulty unit (many complaints about that on newegg) that is the problem.
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commander_
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I was having the same problem when I was still in my NCASE M1.
The computer would just shut off, and then reboot out of the blue. Surprisingly, I had this problem with my 450W SFX PSU (gold rated from Silverstone) and my current 600W one (same as the one you had).
The problem went away after I made sure there was enough air flowing into the PSU at all times.
When I was in my NCASE M1, I removed the PSU filter on it and flipped it so it can take in air from the interior and I installed a 92mm fan to constantly blow air into it and the problem went away.
In the Metis, I'm using a huge 140mm fan on my cooler and a slim 120mm fan blowing air into the PSU.
So, it's either your PSU is faulty (kind of unlikely), or the PSU isn't getting enough air or the PSU fan is struggling to get air into it (most likely case). If you have any kind of filter over it or if you don't have another fan blowing air into it, just make sure it's taking in as much air as possible.
Also, double check all your connection (on the PSU and on the components) just in case as well.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions. I think I went full retard when estimating the amperage requirement of my system, so now I've managed to return the Silverstone PSU and I've ordered a 500W SFX-L format PSU with a 120mm fan that doesn't have the semi-passive feature. That should take care of the problem.
Thanks. It's even shorter than I expected... could be a good alternative to left/right angle for us. Just have to locate the supplier now.
Hey i am planning on building in the raijintek metis case & i have a mst gtx 760 gaming which is 260mm.
It's 10mm or 1cm longer then your gtx 750 ti gaming gpu.
Do you think it'll fit? It's just 10mm or 1cm longer then yours.
Did you have to do any modding to make yours fit?
Also i read your post where you mentioned that you didnt know about the power led etc ... and fortunately your gpu fit.
Is he power led etc ... you are talking about right in front of the gpu area or above it near the top usb cables?
Anyways, main question will a gpu that's 1cm longer then yours fit?
Thanks.
nope. 25cm or 250mm is max that fits if you don't plan to remove the PCB with USB and front HD audio sockets. That said, this 25cm is measured from the display sockets panel, not the screw bend portion of the bracket, which could add another ~10mm? So depends how you measured your 760.
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I just finished up a build last night, and did some initial testing. I will type, for now. Post some pics, later tonight.
the case is actually a rebranded metis, from DIY-PC, instead of Raijintek. Same case. except it comes with a generic fan with nothing printed on it. Its actually a pretty good fan. pushes a good amount of air and is very quiet. But it needs to be vertically mounted. horizontal, it becomes very scratchy.
i3 6100
16gb (2x8) of DDR4 3000
Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5 motherboard
HIS Radeon 7870 ghz edition
480GB Adata SP550 SSD
Antec Neo HE 650 power supply
The power supply is an ATX modular. Its a bit shorter than some other 650 watt supplies, such an an Antec Earthwatts 650, that I also own. I bought it ten years ago, for an MATX build, because of the shorter length. I pulled it out of the closet, for this build. It is also dead quiet. and I wanted this to be a pretty quiet build, as well.
The 7870 clears the PSU by about 10mm. Thankfully, the card has a metal support piece, running along the top edge of the card. So it does not flex at all and won't touch the PSU. The 7870's legth of 10.2 inches, just narrowly fits. This PSU does not have a large fan mounted on the bottom face, like many current PSUs. It has a single 80mm fan at one end, for exhaust. and opposite end, which goes right under the GPU, is a grill, for intake. The air coming out is pretty warm, but it doesn't seem to be choking. Has not become loud!
The CPU is cooled by a Hyper 212 plus, which I have had for awhile and took from an old build. Mounted to push toward the PSU/front of the case, the heatsink itself, even with no fans, blocked the front panel connection on the motherboard, for USB 3. So I stuck the SSD to the side of the PSU and pull out all of the rubber bits for mounting. The hyper 212 now pushes toward the top of the case, pulling in air from the bottom, through the mounting holes.
The 212 has a single fan on it, in "push" mode. A Noiseblocker B12-2. It is a supremely silent, 1300rpm fan. I have an B12-1, as the rear intake, for the case. its is a near noiseless 800rpm.
For the 7870 GPU, I took off the shroud and blower/exhaust fan setup, a long time ago. It would reach 80c in an ATX mid tower, while gaming.
In the mid tower, I had strapped two 80mm case fans to the top of the heatsink, pushing down into it, for a huge improvement in temps. But standard 80mm case fans only just barely fit, in the metis. So I bought a single Noctua NF-A9x14, which is a 14mm thick, 92mm fan. I strapped it to the top of the heatsink. and then I put two 50mm Gelid fans, as exhaust, right up against the rear grill of the case and GPU's PCI bracket. The 50mm fans are split on one connection, which is running through the "Low Noise Adapter" which came with the Noctua. So they are quiet, now. The noctua is pretty quiet, too. and I have it on a custom fan curve, connected straight to the video card, with an adapter. I tried the 50mm fans as intake, but it didn't work nearly as well.
I did not use the IO shield, in order to allow extra air flow. Especially for the VRM heatsink, which sits right behind the IO connections.
Processing a 720p game capture in Handbrake, with high quality settings, the CPU averages 60c. Which some extremely short, nanosecond spikes into 63-64c.
In MGS5 and Dark Souls 2, the CPU rides in the mid 40's until after about 30 minutes of play, it will finally start to touch 50-51c.
The GPU hit 73c, after 40 minutes of MGS5. It hit 74c, after looping Unigen Heaven for 12 minutes. At 20 minutes, it seemed to equalize at 76c, with some scene changes knocking it back down to 75c, momentarily. In Dark Souls 2, the GPU stayed in the mid/low 60's after 20 minutes of running around and capturing video with quicksync.
All of my fans are pretty premium models. Even at full blast gaming, this thing is not obtrusive. Just a nice hwoosh. The noctua has a light motor sound to it, but its a pleasing tone. Its probably due to being strapped right up against a heatsink.
After 20 minutes of Unigen Heaven, motherboard temps are both at 44c.
the case is actually a rebranded metis, from DIY-PC, instead of Raijintek. Same case. except it comes with a generic fan with nothing printed on it. Its actually a pretty good fan. pushes a good amount of air and is very quiet. But it needs to be vertically mounted. horizontal, it becomes very scratchy.
i3 6100
16gb (2x8) of DDR4 3000
Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5 motherboard
HIS Radeon 7870 ghz edition
480GB Adata SP550 SSD
Antec Neo HE 650 power supply
The power supply is an ATX modular. Its a bit shorter than some other 650 watt supplies, such an an Antec Earthwatts 650, that I also own. I bought it ten years ago, for an MATX build, because of the shorter length. I pulled it out of the closet, for this build. It is also dead quiet. and I wanted this to be a pretty quiet build, as well.
The 7870 clears the PSU by about 10mm. Thankfully, the card has a metal support piece, running along the top edge of the card. So it does not flex at all and won't touch the PSU. The 7870's legth of 10.2 inches, just narrowly fits. This PSU does not have a large fan mounted on the bottom face, like many current PSUs. It has a single 80mm fan at one end, for exhaust. and opposite end, which goes right under the GPU, is a grill, for intake. The air coming out is pretty warm, but it doesn't seem to be choking. Has not become loud!
The CPU is cooled by a Hyper 212 plus, which I have had for awhile and took from an old build. Mounted to push toward the PSU/front of the case, the heatsink itself, even with no fans, blocked the front panel connection on the motherboard, for USB 3. So I stuck the SSD to the side of the PSU and pull out all of the rubber bits for mounting. The hyper 212 now pushes toward the top of the case, pulling in air from the bottom, through the mounting holes.
The 212 has a single fan on it, in "push" mode. A Noiseblocker B12-2. It is a supremely silent, 1300rpm fan. I have an B12-1, as the rear intake, for the case. its is a near noiseless 800rpm.
For the 7870 GPU, I took off the shroud and blower/exhaust fan setup, a long time ago. It would reach 80c in an ATX mid tower, while gaming.
In the mid tower, I had strapped two 80mm case fans to the top of the heatsink, pushing down into it, for a huge improvement in temps. But standard 80mm case fans only just barely fit, in the metis. So I bought a single Noctua NF-A9x14, which is a 14mm thick, 92mm fan. I strapped it to the top of the heatsink. and then I put two 50mm Gelid fans, as exhaust, right up against the rear grill of the case and GPU's PCI bracket. The 50mm fans are split on one connection, which is running through the "Low Noise Adapter" which came with the Noctua. So they are quiet, now. The noctua is pretty quiet, too. and I have it on a custom fan curve, connected straight to the video card, with an adapter. I tried the 50mm fans as intake, but it didn't work nearly as well.
I did not use the IO shield, in order to allow extra air flow. Especially for the VRM heatsink, which sits right behind the IO connections.
Processing a 720p game capture in Handbrake, with high quality settings, the CPU averages 60c. Which some extremely short, nanosecond spikes into 63-64c.
In MGS5 and Dark Souls 2, the CPU rides in the mid 40's until after about 30 minutes of play, it will finally start to touch 50-51c.
The GPU hit 73c, after 40 minutes of MGS5. It hit 74c, after looping Unigen Heaven for 12 minutes. At 20 minutes, it seemed to equalize at 76c, with some scene changes knocking it back down to 75c, momentarily. In Dark Souls 2, the GPU stayed in the mid/low 60's after 20 minutes of running around and capturing video with quicksync.
All of my fans are pretty premium models. Even at full blast gaming, this thing is not obtrusive. Just a nice hwoosh. The noctua has a light motor sound to it, but its a pleasing tone. Its probably due to being strapped right up against a heatsink.
After 20 minutes of Unigen Heaven, motherboard temps are both at 44c.
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chameleoneel
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Ok, are you guys ready for way too many, awful, low light smartphone pics? yeahaaahhhhh!
DIYPC HTPC-Cube-BK. (A rebranded Raijintek Metis)
This is an Antec Neo HE 650. Its about 11 years old. As you can see, it has a backside exhaust fan. Rather than the large, bottom mounted intake fans, which most newer power supplies. Its no matter, this thing is dead quiet. This case has it exhausting out the bottom. Actually, I think this PSU fan setup, is ideal, for this case.
You can also see that I put mesh over the grommet holes for the storage drive mounts. As you will see, my CPU fan intakes, there.
some attractive masking tape ligning. helps lower the side panel noise from a 'smack', to more of a 'thud'. I will probably get some damping material, eventually. This isn't a loud case, when running. But the aluminum can be loud, when handling it.
The rear fan is intake. Reviewers noted improved cooling with intake, rather than exhaust.
full size cables means you gotta do what you can.
Here is a little glimpse at those mounting holes, no being used as added intake. Hyper 212 plus. Noiseblock NB-eLoop B12-2, on the heatsink. B12-1, as the intake fan. I haven't seen the CPU go over 51c, in games. Usually averages in the mid 40's. Skylake i3 6100
I originally got this power supply for an X-Qpack MATX build, because it is a little less in length, than some others. It payed off for this build, 11 years later. The 7870 GPU clears it by about 10mm. It has reinforcement along the length of the card, so it will never flex and touch the power supply. phew!
Oh, whats that by the GPU?
Its two Gelid 50mm fans, as exhaust! (intake was dramatically worse). You can also see the annoying hack job mod I had to make. Below the HDMI port, was a metal shelf/tab, which prevented the HDMI cable from seating the full depth of the port. No video signal. So I borrowed a generic dremel and ground the tab away. Not pretty. But now I can connect to my plasma.
I never put on I/O shields. Helps with ventilation. I mean, the VRM heatsink is RIGHT THERE!
The other side.
another peek at those gelids.
This is a HIS 7870 Ghz edition. it used to have a HIS designed blower/exhaust shroud on it. But the turbine fan was not sufficient. I had two 80mm fans strapped to it, when it was in a mid tower. Here, I had to get Noctua's 14mm thick, 92mm fan. Works well. Those gelids are connected to the "low noise adapter" which came with the noctua. They work well, in this setup. The 7870 equalizes at about 75c, when playing something like Metal Gear Solid 5 or looping a benchmark.
here, you can see the end of the GPU. It covers all of the modual ports on the PSU, except for one. Which was just enough for me, as I just use one internal drive and an USB3 external.
The USB 3 header on this board, is in a dumb spot. Its why I ended up with this upward pushing orientation, for the CPU.
aww yeah.
DIYPC HTPC-Cube-BK. (A rebranded Raijintek Metis)
This is an Antec Neo HE 650. Its about 11 years old. As you can see, it has a backside exhaust fan. Rather than the large, bottom mounted intake fans, which most newer power supplies. Its no matter, this thing is dead quiet. This case has it exhausting out the bottom. Actually, I think this PSU fan setup, is ideal, for this case.
You can also see that I put mesh over the grommet holes for the storage drive mounts. As you will see, my CPU fan intakes, there.
some attractive masking tape ligning. helps lower the side panel noise from a 'smack', to more of a 'thud'. I will probably get some damping material, eventually. This isn't a loud case, when running. But the aluminum can be loud, when handling it.
The rear fan is intake. Reviewers noted improved cooling with intake, rather than exhaust.
full size cables means you gotta do what you can.
Here is a little glimpse at those mounting holes, no being used as added intake. Hyper 212 plus. Noiseblock NB-eLoop B12-2, on the heatsink. B12-1, as the intake fan. I haven't seen the CPU go over 51c, in games. Usually averages in the mid 40's. Skylake i3 6100
I originally got this power supply for an X-Qpack MATX build, because it is a little less in length, than some others. It payed off for this build, 11 years later. The 7870 GPU clears it by about 10mm. It has reinforcement along the length of the card, so it will never flex and touch the power supply. phew!
Oh, whats that by the GPU?
Its two Gelid 50mm fans, as exhaust! (intake was dramatically worse). You can also see the annoying hack job mod I had to make. Below the HDMI port, was a metal shelf/tab, which prevented the HDMI cable from seating the full depth of the port. No video signal. So I borrowed a generic dremel and ground the tab away. Not pretty. But now I can connect to my plasma.
I never put on I/O shields. Helps with ventilation. I mean, the VRM heatsink is RIGHT THERE!
The other side.
another peek at those gelids.
This is a HIS 7870 Ghz edition. it used to have a HIS designed blower/exhaust shroud on it. But the turbine fan was not sufficient. I had two 80mm fans strapped to it, when it was in a mid tower. Here, I had to get Noctua's 14mm thick, 92mm fan. Works well. Those gelids are connected to the "low noise adapter" which came with the noctua. They work well, in this setup. The 7870 equalizes at about 75c, when playing something like Metal Gear Solid 5 or looping a benchmark.
here, you can see the end of the GPU. It covers all of the modual ports on the PSU, except for one. Which was just enough for me, as I just use one internal drive and an USB3 external.
The USB 3 header on this board, is in a dumb spot. Its why I ended up with this upward pushing orientation, for the CPU.
aww yeah.
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My build above, refused to come back from sleep mode, today. I think the PSU might have died. It is 10 years old....
gotta take the case apart, so that I can clear the CMOS and rule that out, before I go and buy an SFX power supply.
gotta take the case apart, so that I can clear the CMOS and rule that out, before I go and buy an SFX power supply.
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CPU and one stick of ram + known working PSU = no power to the motherboard. no power to anything.
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I could not resuscitate this gigabyte board. Cleared CMOS. Tried no components. 1 stick of ram and no cpu. cpu and no ram. cpu and one stick of ram.
Submitted RMA for this gigabyte board. Trying an ASUS, until the gigabyte returns.
Submitted RMA for this gigabyte board. Trying an ASUS, until the gigabyte returns.
My build:
Raijintek Metis Classic Black (without window, because, frankly, there's nothing to show really... everything is crampled tightly together inside.).
ASUS Z170 Maximus VIII Impact - for DTS Connect. I am realllly mindboggled, why so few ITX boards have it ... because ITX doesn't make good HTPC in board manufacturers mind?
Intel Skylake i7-6700K
G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4
Gigabyte GTX 1070 mini ITX/oc ( GVN1070IXOC8GD )
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB at the bottom
old Crucial m4 256GB between PSU and front plate, as extra storage
Silverstone SX500-LG <= with the crappy chirping stock fan (already bought replacement fan (Scythe Slip Stream Slim Fan SY1212SL12L) haven't just had to time to swap it out.).
Noctua NH-D14 (discontinued product now... one of very few 2 tower coolers that fit this case)
Noctua NF-F12 PWN for case ... in hindsight, could have not bought it and used NH-D14 other fan there that I have now extra.
DEMCiflex 120mm fan filter round black/black for back air in-take.
Air intake from back, goes through CPU 2 towers and out through PSU.
Used one hex key wrench for cooler support (squeezed it between the cooler and one of the bottom unused rubber thingies and taped the longer end to cooler so it doesn't move around)
Thermal images done while playing Doom.
Raijintek Metis Classic Black (without window, because, frankly, there's nothing to show really... everything is crampled tightly together inside.).
ASUS Z170 Maximus VIII Impact - for DTS Connect. I am realllly mindboggled, why so few ITX boards have it ... because ITX doesn't make good HTPC in board manufacturers mind?
Intel Skylake i7-6700K
G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x16GB DDR4
Gigabyte GTX 1070 mini ITX/oc ( GVN1070IXOC8GD )
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB at the bottom
old Crucial m4 256GB between PSU and front plate, as extra storage
Silverstone SX500-LG <= with the crappy chirping stock fan (already bought replacement fan (Scythe Slip Stream Slim Fan SY1212SL12L) haven't just had to time to swap it out.).
Noctua NH-D14 (discontinued product now... one of very few 2 tower coolers that fit this case)
Noctua NF-F12 PWN for case ... in hindsight, could have not bought it and used NH-D14 other fan there that I have now extra.
DEMCiflex 120mm fan filter round black/black for back air in-take.
Air intake from back, goes through CPU 2 towers and out through PSU.
Used one hex key wrench for cooler support (squeezed it between the cooler and one of the bottom unused rubber thingies and taped the longer end to cooler so it doesn't move around)
Thermal images done while playing Doom.
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Are you happy with that card? What's the fan noise like? Any coil whine? I'm having a hard time finding any real reviews of this card since it's so new.
On idle the GPU fan can be turned off with profile. I left it to work at 20% always, just to reduce idle GPU temp from 56C to 44C and at this 20% it's inaudible from 1.5m away. On full load the fan is audible obviously...but nothing extreme or annoying... you don't have to use headphones
and PSU chirp is more annoying. Also can't hear any coil whine over the PSU rattling/chirping (not my videos, but seem to be common problem with this PSU). I have yet to replace the fan.
In fact, at first I thought that what a horrible coil whine with this GPU, when launched Doom first time... but it was the PSU fan that started (at low temps it's off also) ... so yeah
Performance wise, it's currently the best possible option, because all the other Pascal 1070 GPU's are 11"-12" ( TechPowerUp ) and don't really fit (unless I would remove the case USB and front audio jacks... which I don't).
AMD RX 480 however is just ... not for me (bad perf/watt compared to Pascal; those PCIe powerdraw problems it had; and perf wise really power gimped => not very good for small form factor cases), although with it's 9.5" it would have fit probably.
I so wish they released Vega before Polaris. In fact I plan to replace this GTX1070 with Vega (if they give us small cards that fit... and don't do "nano" with their pricing) just for FreeSync support. I will not buy g-sync predator and pay like 300+€ more than for FreeSync version of same panel ( Acer Predator Z35 (949€) vs AOC C3583FQ (649€) ). I rather buy Vega + FreeSync ultrawide... ... also we have not seen any HDR displays in the wild yet, so I have time to wait
Conclusion: When it comes to NVIDIA GPU's, YES, I am very happy with this GPU. However, I am not happy with Nvidia with its G-Sync trolling and no VESA AdaptiveSync over DP or HDMI ( FreeSync ) support still.
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One sidepanel difference.
Metis Classic = without window (both sides look the same)
Metis = acrylic window (one side looks like the classic case side and other has acrylic window)
I used Classic because:
- better ventilation
- better looks imho
- I hate interior leds and stuff anyway... I want my computer to be decent looking and practical, not some xmas tree.
- I used huge air cooler that would have pretty much covered the entire window area... so nothing else would have been visible anyway.
- because I hate acrylic windows... they get scratched anyway instantly after removing the protective plastic... so unless it's tempered glass, no windows please.
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I wish I could build this twice it went to easy. temps are good, just waiting for her birthday to install some games for more testing. Someone had a really good idea and they put the clear window and remounted it on the inside versus the outside at the say it looked really well that way. I'm going to leave mine the way it is, but thats a nice touch
zacwhite15
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hey guys, so i picked up the green Metis the other day. i actually think i might be able to stuff a 240 along with either a 1070 mini or, if Odin allows it, a Vega Mini in there (watercooled) with some minor modifications. ill actually have a build log as i go. hoping to get it started this weekend with measurements and everything. ill do my best to provide as accurate measurements as possible in case someone wants to duplicate my build down the road
*will post link to the build log as soon as it goes live
*update* after reviewing the dimensions i am going to use 2 140mm single rads. i can fit a 240 with modding the back end but since this is my girlfriends build she wants the case to stay mostly intact. LOL.
*will post link to the build log as soon as it goes live
*update* after reviewing the dimensions i am going to use 2 140mm single rads. i can fit a 240 with modding the back end but since this is my girlfriends build she wants the case to stay mostly intact. LOL.
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Brian_R170
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Just do yourself a favor and use an SFX-PSU with ATX-to-SFX adapter. I built one a couple months ago with and EVGA SuperNova 650 G2. To get the PSU in place and route the wires, I had to disassemble the case to where only the bottom and back were still together. I got it back together and realized how much of a pain it would be to do any anything inside the case later on, so I put in a Corsair SF450 I already had. That made it super easy to add/remove modular cables from the PSU and, after orienting the PSU adapter bracket correctly, all of the excess wires and lighting controller neatly tuck in between the PSU and the front panel.
zacwhite15
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im actually going to be using the HDPLEX 400w with the AC-DC PFC adapter. its a little pricey at about 160.00 (with the ac/dc adapter) but absolutely worth it considering its size. its even smaller than an SFX and it has an efficiency of 94%+. that should give me a HUGE amount of room to work with plus ill be able to build custom cables for everything so i don't have to worry about too much/little cable.
http://www.hd-plex.com/HDPLEX-400W-Hi-Fi-DC-ATX-Power-Supply-16V-24V-Wide-Range-Voltage-Input.html
Brian_R170
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That's cool, especially if you can figure out a way to mount it that's out-of the way, like both the DC-DC and AC-DC mounted flat against the backside of the front panel.
I don't know if I'm figuring this correctly, but the efficiency is going to be only 81%+ (94%+ of 86%+ after you factor in the efficiency of the both the DC-DC and AC-DC components).