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You will need to be more specific than that, as you have probably just described half to three-quarters of the people at Ground Kontrol at any given time. And me, for that matter.

Gotta give props to hometown #9: Ground Kontrol. Its a good arcade, and a decent bar to boot. RIP: Hangar 18, Space Station

Its not that Comcast is singling out Tor users... they disconnect pretty much everyone on a daily basis.

Crappy games and the whole package of "exclusive pre-order content" that will be available to the whole world 3 months after release.

I keep hearing the Comic Store Guy's voice saying "I have specifically instructed you to NOT disturb me while I am inside my Fortress of Solitude.

To me, this looks like someone has been aching to wear some Town & Country Surf Designs stuff from the 1980s, but is too cheap to buy the legitimate deal. I was not aware that the clothes I wear while doing nothing of any consequence could get any more comfortable than they are, and I think...

I was in Enterprise QA until 2006 in Beaverton. Consistently mismanaged and looking to waste $100 to save pennies, they never seemed to me to have any real clue as to what direction the industry was going, and were consequently always playing catch-up to the competition, even when the McAfee...

Yes, sorry... Thanksgiving has absorbed a lot of my time since last week, so I have not made much progress. My connectors are in, and I am getting a LOT better at crimping those tiny buggers. I haven't taken any pictures, just imagine yourself swearing at a crimper, some pins and a...

I ended up ordering the pins and connector I need from an online vendor, as the "electronics supply" place across town does not stock the parts I need. So... yet again, I am waiting on parts. I must confess at this point that I -still- have not made the 8-pin to two 6-pin PCIe cable I...

Check this out: I am 90% finished with the build. As I said in previous updates, I still need to run to the specialty electronics store across town and get the pins and connector I need to connect the bottom fan (not pictured today) to the GPU's fan header. Also: More to come!

O callou callay! I met the mail carrier at the door, and he handed me the solution to all my problems. Well... Okay, it was a box with a heat exchanger in it, not the Philosopher's Stone. But it does solve my biggest problem to date. To wit: Gaaah! The horror! That is one ugly stock...

Those are custom-ordered, specially-cast one-off caps made from myrrh by the finest Chirobistan craftspeople. I kid, I kid... they are 1 inch / 2.5cm nylon caps from the hardware store. My local (Westmoreland TrueValue) had them in black or white nylon and a couple other materials. Any...

I am sourcing a connector to replace the stock PWN plug on my big fan with the one on the card, so that the card can control the fan speed. Mostly, I need to make some time to get to the electronics supply shop on the other side of town.

My final config: √ Case: Ncase M1 √ CPU: AMD A10 5800K √ CPU Cooler: AMD AM3+ heatpipe √ GPU: MSI R9 270x √ GPU Cooler: Stock, minus fans √ RAM: GeIL 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz Black Dragon √ MB: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX √ PSU: SilverStone 450w ST45SF-G...

And so, I finished Season 6 of Corner Gas and didn't finish the build yet. So, then... on to Season 19 of Top Gear, and some progress: RAM in place and cable goodness: From the back: And cleaned up the other side: You may have noticed that the fans are missing... yes...

I would say that will be a tight fit, if it fits at all... my experience trying to fit a modular ATX power supply and a large GPU was that there isn't enough room in there for both of them in the same place at the same time.

Sexy sexy!! Aroooooo!! :D

See my earlier posts about the PCIe connectors, and the mods I made to them to promote better fitment. Realistically, I think that there is more than adequate clearance (at least with the GPU I chose) to not require special modification of the PCIe connectors at all. I don't know how to tell...

I'm going to try it with just one 12cm fan at first; hopefully, that will provide sufficient airflow across the heat exchanger to keep the GPU temp low. I mounted the single fan in the center fan location (which I suspect might not actually be intended for a fan, but for support hardware for...

Yes. It comes with brackets for using either an SFX PSU or a full ATX PSU.

lol I saw you too!! :D

I had this very thought when I unboxed mine. :D

I haven't been to a LAN party in 15 years! ;)

That's 4 of us in Oregon, so far. :D

Due to the excellent layout of the case, the fan will draw air in through the holes in the side panel, and will exhaust upwards through the top panel. If only there was some way for me to show what I mean... Here you can see the fan ready to suck air through the back of the case... happy...

Hey, that's the one I got for my build. I am so excited to see everyone getting their NCases! Can't wait to see what happens next, as folks start their own builds!

A fast update; I am trying to keep my momentum up. Progress: More to come!

It isn't that the panels are flimsy so much as the design does not include a superfluity of stiffening. The panels are at their most vulnerable to damage when they are not attached to the frame; I would be most worried about them being sat on by anything bigger than a medium-sized cat or a...

Criminy, M4rk... those pictures are making me look at your case with lust in my heart, and I have one sitting right here!!:eek:

Welcome to the club! :D

Those are the backs of the fasteners that hold the case sides in place. They are spot-welded in place (I believe) and the spot-welding process can distort thin aluminum sheet a little.

In my experience, the supplied Lian Li filters will almost fit under the side panels, the difference being about 1.75mm. However, the supplied fasteners have domed heads that stick up an additional 2mm on top of that, which REALLY doesn't fit. I tried some small-head, countersink-type fan...

Solidly into season 5 of Corner Gas, I am making slow progress on the build. Some evidence: Removed the fan assembly from the R9 270x. Oddly, the hardest part was maneuvering the power lead out from under the heat exchanger. Here's some beauty shots of the side bracket, fitted out with...

Sure... How's that?

I have sizable meathooks and it hasn't been any more of a handicap for me on this build than on a regular ATX case build. Way back before the turn of the century, I was a Mac guy. Even before the PowerMac G5 and Mac Pros, Apple was turning out some really innovative case designs, like the G3...

It would probably work, unless you put in a long GPU. Anything longer than 15cm is going to be running into the bottom of or having that power supply rest on top of it. Cards in the 24cm+ range are going to be colliding with the pigtail, though depending on how the P/S is installed, cards as...

Also, okwchin I like your nixie clock!!:D Oh, and for my $.02, I am leaning towards removing the fan assembly from my R9 270x and using the bottom 120mm case fans to keep it cool.

That is a very accurate mock-up of the NCase, cardboard construction notwithstanding. You've done your homework well; I would say that you'd be able to transplant that system directly into the real deal without much difficulty.

I got mine from Performance PCs... Here's a link to the page where they keep the adapters: Slim Drive Adapters This is neither an endorsement of nor advertising for the vendor in question. I personally used this vendor because they had the parts I needed. Use at your own risk.

Ahh... Season 4 of Corner Gas was when the show really hit its stride, 19 solid episodes. And I've started to fit things together... Here's a peek at the magic in action: More to come!