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...
I'd time to do some tests lately.
ASUS Impact MoBo, i5 4670K with CLU under IHS, 16G RAM, MSI R9 270X HAWK.
CPU at 4.2G cores (1.225V), 4.0G cache (1.20V).
C12P fan at 900 rpm max, outtake 92x92x14mm Noctua at 1700rpm max.
Ambient temp. 23°C
CPU Temperature measured with Core Temp.
CPU...
Yes, this pretty much sucks. One of the main reasons I bought this MoBo was the "supreme fx sound"...
So far I've tried Koss Porta Pro and Sennheiser CX 300 II. The hungrier the graphics card is, the more whine/noise during data intensive program running (gaming) is. (so far tried onboard/asus...
I'll make some tonight for you, but still without 3.5" HDDs and without gaming graphics card, because I'm still struggling with curious system instabilities / thinking (and hope after several weaks of usage/testing) the old ASUS 460 GTX was the reason.
The C12P was imo the best air solution for...
On that particular picture
Noctua NH-C12P, ASUS Deluxe P8Z77-I, Silverstone ST45SF-G, some custom fan and 3.5HDD in side bracket...
Have one NH-C12P SE14 here in M1, woks fine.
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The configuration with Noctua NH-C14 was tested and can be seen/is linked in first post in this thread...
Working one here with M1, 4670k.
... and pretty MUCH disappointed about it.
The audio card is prety shitty -> 1) hearing data noise/whine through headphones; 2) the headamp doesn't work as supposed; 3) classic loud pop during computer start/stop; 4) when amplified and any sound starts, you...
Geoffrey4283:
I should be more specific about it, when I first wrote that. I was a bit pissed at Silverstone because they are the producer of the PSU. They've made the design and they have the ability to change the upper PCB (by power connector) / rotate the power connector - in short -...
Tried somebody to put Sapphire TOXIC R9 270X inside the M1?
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/product_index.aspx?pid=2038&lid=1
The dimensions are 308(L)X113(W)X41(H) mm, 2.2 x slot :eek:
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Here are some detailed photos...
Geoffrey4283:
On the outside, I've the M1 already build and the ST45SF-G standard fan is terrible... I've had it disassembled allready. I know, the 92mm fan wouldn't fit, because in Silverstone they don't think... If they'd rotate the power connector with the small PCB 90 degrees, the 92mm fan...
grazina:
You can put 92x92x14mm Noctua there. Actually I'm planning to make the whole bent sheet of PSU which holds the fan from scratch and attach such Noctua fan there...
Wouldn't be surprised if somebody stole it. My experiences with German DHL are one disappeared 1.2K mountain bike and one DSLR camera equipment delivered to totally different person in other country... :(
Let's hope this is not similar case.
okwchin:
Yes, its 22mm to to case wall, the side fan/hdd bracket is about 1mm thick and it is about 1mm bend to inside.
On the other side from C12P secufirm cpu backplate bellow MoBo to the M1 plate to which is MoBo secured its about 3mm and this M1 plate is about 1mm to right case wall. I'm...
Guys, I have to make a confession. I almost shat myself a few moments ago :eek:
I took IHS from my 4670k of (razor method), cleaned all, applied CLU, put all together and at ASUS Impact default (3800MHz all cores) Core Temp showed 140W power usage and temperatures hitting 60 degrees C at idle...
It looks almost exactly as on Neceres render.
I'm running the config you want with 4670k, SE14 fan on the C12P plus 92x92x14mm Noctua as outtake.
There is about 2-3cm space between the SE14 fan and side fan panel bracket, can measure it later if you want.
I started with testing and o/c...
front-rear YES (parallel with heatpipes)
top-down NO (its possible 1-2mm)
C12P fits Asus Impact only in "heatpipes towards rear" position and it fits into M1 even if the fan extends towards top.
If you can put the C12P on your motherboard with heatpipes towards bottom and it fits M1, then...
If you have C12P heatsink oriented with heatpipes to rear (MoBo back connectors), you can place the SE14 fan of center in front-rear position, but not in top-down position (some small movements are possible due to the clipping mechanism construction).
cowsgomoo:
I can speak only for myself (aircooled), but ->
1. put all M1 panels down, the part for 2 fans/rad out, the part which holds PSU out
2. assembly MoBo + RAM + CPU + CPU cooler
3. set (fan) cables on MoBo
4. put 92mm takeout fan to M1
5. marry MoBo with M1
6. put all other...
Built mine M1 yesterday. Just want to tell others, who have questions about parts ->
Asus Impact + Noctua NH-C12P SE14 fits without problems as seen on Neceres renders (with 14cm fan).
I'm using Silverstone ST45SF-G and if you want to have more disks, custom power cable is needed, because the...
Thanks for the answers. But do you realize guys, that all the buttons start at 16-22mm hole diameter and ncase has 13.5mm hole diameter?
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Are you able to find any 12mm BLACK illuminated button on ebay???