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I believe Dan said due to the push pin layout, the panels sag a bit. The screws are there to make it nice and square, but if you don't care about that you don't have to use the screws.

Look, your spreadsheet is famous! http://www.ocaholic.co.uk/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3885 Or it would be if they credited you :rolleyes:

My take on comparissongate - I would post some non-professional pics in the forums, but not on the website. That way it's not part of your main advertising, but it's out there for people who need to visualize what it will look like on a desk. Seems like such a simple thing to make a bunch of...

The weatherman wouldn't say that! It doesn't make sense to say something is x% hotter or cooler than something else unless you are talking about kelvin. Would you say that 0C is 0% hotter than 100C? Or 20C is infinity % cooler than 0C? When you look at it that way you can see why it doesn't make...

It's funny how all of their advertising says "25% cooler than stock" which doesn't really mean anything - looks like they're getting that from dividing 65C by 87C. Just by changing the units you could claim different % improvements (if anything they should use Kelvin, but that would only be a...

Parts like the PCIe riser, USB connectors, power switch, power cable, etc. are probably all considered "electronics".

Drop downs are inputs used for making choices; inputs should not be used to present information when no user input is required. I agree with iFreilicht that it is confusing to have be able choose options when the choice doesn't actually do anything. If space is a concern it should be changed...

Have you seen the Realan cases? Check out the E-I5. It's $100, but it comes with power board and adapter so you don't need to buy a PSU. There's a smaller E-I3 but it has no front USB (seems to be sold out), and a larger E-I7 with a slot for disc drive. I bought an E-I7 from the site above and...

I think the ticking only happens to people who have the right ambient and computer temperatures where the PSU hovers right around the shut-off point for the fan. If your temps are high enough that the fan is always on (or low enough that it's always off) you probably won't have that problem.

I like it but the serial ports aren't centered - could you move them a bit to the right?

Colleges usually have mailing addresses for students living in residence, have you looked into that?

Sounds amazing but I'm curious on the details of how you're going to make that work. Eg if the warehouse is mapped 1:1 when you put on your headset, what happens when you get on a hoverboard? Unless you're still actually moving around, your position in real life and VR will get out of sync...

I somehow doubt that him making a post here is preventing Silverstone from "working on their own problems"... this is just an informal discussion, give him a break. I like that official reps post here (even if it's on unofficial business); I think I probably speak for most people when I say...

IIRC, he said even with the best push-pin configuration the side panels still sagged a bit, so he added screw points on the bottom. If you don't care about the 1mm or so of sagging the bottom doesn't have to be screwed in.

Looks great! What is the purpose of the slot above the video card I/O on the rear panel?

To me, a "gaming case" needs to support high end video cards like the 980, 980 ti, etc. I would guess most people who are spending $200+ on a case are also getting a high end card. Sure, there is a small compromise with CPU cooling, but for gaming going down from a 980 ti to a 970 is a MUCH...

Agree, even though I will get a v1 either way, "limited edition" perks will cause a lot of people who are on the fence thinking "I can get this (or a better version) any time, no rush" to jump in.

Don't discourage people from giving their opinions just because you don't care about the same issues they do. Dondan created this thread to get feedback, and it's not up to you to decide what feedback is valuable.

Skylake's memory controller supports both DDR3 and DDR4 btw. It'll be up to the motherboard manufactures to decide which DIMMs to support.

Interesting motherboard placement - a huge disadvantage with that is that the CPU doesn't have direct access to cool air outside the case. It also looks like it would be harder to work with; you'd have to remove the video card any time you wanted to do anything.

If that's the case, if I were dondan I would consider not posting progress pics so I didn't have to deal with this every time... But as someone who is interested in this whole process, I'd prefer it didn't come to that. I'm sure no one wants this case out more than dondan does; nagging him to...

Did you happen to take case/cpu temperatures during the gpu test?

There is no measurable performance difference when using a riser. See the benchmarks on overclock.net.

Too bad about the moddiy one, I like the color and the price was right.

After all that didn't he mention he tried another one that was cheaper, shielded and had a good bend radius? Don't remember the exact details and IIRC he was being kind of cryptic about it - or is that the moddiy one that can't be screwed in?

With something like that the tubing would be a *very* tight fit. Though there are so many fake "leaks" like this one on sites like ChipHell it usually isn't worth a second thought.

The easiest way to alleviate this concern is to remember that these coolers still perform better than the Intel stock cooler. If the engineers at Intel are confident that their cooler performs adequately, you can rest assured than anything that beats it in benchmarks will be just fine.

What if we want it pressed right up against the side for that sweet, sweet ducting?

Semi-fanless is a huge selling point for most people so I doubt they'll remove it. Even most members of this forum wanted it if you look back a couple years; I find it funny that we've gone from "if only the ST45SF-G was semi-fanless" to "please remove semi-fanless" :p Really I just hope...

That case is designed to support a full sized ATX power supply, any reason you're looking only at SFX?

Yeah, the walking around stuff will be new to the consumer version of the Rift. DK1 and DK2 were officially "seated experiences", but the Vive allowed you to walk around a small room (it also knows where walls are and puts up a virtual grid to let you know you're getting close to a real world...

Yes I know you aren't limited to one total USB; it's would be more of a convenience thing since you're going to be walking around your room and will probably want as much cable as possible. That said they might mean one cable for the HMD and one for the camera, so it may not even be an issue.

Oculus has released recommended specs for the Rift and it's going to require two USB 3.0 ports! Can we re-vote on the front panel input configuration? :p

It may be inefficient but (to restate what Necere said) it must be that way in order to conform to the Mini-ITX spec. What you're suggesting can be (and has been) done with 92mm heatsink/fans, but you won't see something much shorter than the cooler pictured with a 120mm fan for Mini-ITX.

Not likely; from the FAQ in the first post:

Looks amazing dondan, congrats!

I don't think that's necessarily true. For example it may be possible that a small, roughly video-card-shaped opening performs better in general, since the hot air will be forced to exhaust further away from the intake. But like I said we can't know for sure until tests are performed, so there's...

Everyone is always talking/debating the amount of holes on the side panels, it would be interesting if you ordered a set with both sides pretty much wide open (like this) and performed tests by taping up holes to see what resulted in the best temperatures (like esplin2966 did here). We can...

Not sure what if I'm missing something... but without the top fan the C14 is still 105mm (max for this case is ~48mm).

Note that the Celeron doesn't have the same graphics capabilities as the i5 you were look at. Instead of HD4000 it just has "HD Graphics", which (based on what I can see on Wikipedia) has significantly less performance than the HD4000 range. It does look like it's still slightly better than...