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I’m gravitating towards the 5700 XT Nitro+ in silent bios mode (middle switch), with 0dB at idle and up to 31-32dB max at full load, because compared to the Red Devil - the backplate actually serves a dissipating purpose and I would throw fresh air at it from the Razer Core X side intake fan...

So the 5600xt is out and it’s basically within small% of a 5700 performance at 1080p, could the Strix one be the new silence king while keeping the GPU at cool temps and carrying the Asus Strix reliability (I read a worrying post about Red Devil RMA rates on reddit recently)...

Fact is on macOS I cannot do any windows-like assumption about being able to set the fan or underclock, and even if I could today I may not next year when I update to the next major OS release, etc. so I should probably go with something that works as intended out of the box. My current...

That’s interesting, didn’t think of that in those terms. I could definitely consider shaving 3db at load, some degrees, tens of watts, by going with the 5700 Red Devil. One doubt about the bios switch and quiet mode: should I just switch it to quiet mode the minute I take it out the box, before...

I see your point, but on the other hand once I’ve gone thru the effort of buying the enclosure, spend even more money to mod it with the Nightjar and the Noctua fan, maybe add a pricey active 2m thunderbolt3 cable, etc. nickel and diming the GPU may not be worth it and getting the best GPU macOS...

Thanks everybody. So the Red Devil is a solid choice. The Nitro+ was on my short list too. I mean to use it with an eGPU enclosure (Razer Core X, modded for quietness with a 450W fanless SFX psu and a Noctua case fan) under macOS. Actually there may be some convoluted way to undervolt it...

Hello, let’s say price is not a factor, what would be the absolute quietest but also very good quality built 5700 XT available? From a bit of google research, it would look like the quietest could be the Powecolor Red Devil with the bios in quiet mode, but what about quality and reliability...

Thanks, missed that.

The specs say 295mm max gpu lenght, would a 298mm gpu (asus rog 1080 strix) fit?

Is there a way to mount a Silverstone AR06 cooler to the narrow ILM socket? At 58mm it looks like the best option in the 50-60mm height range... Noctua counterpart (L9x65) is 65mm, too much for some cases.

No, just a lower power version of Maxwell GM206, in the form of a couple (both long and ITX-sized) of bus powered GTX 950. It's notable for two reasons - it's the first time in 2 years (since 750ti) a PEG-less nvidia card is out - contrary to 750TIs (and any AMD card), GTX 950s are perfect 4K...

This case is beyond awesome. 6700T + picoPSU + short GTX 950 v2 (75W PEG-less just released by asus/msi) + m.2 pcie 4x ssd makes a beastly low power 4.2L system with full HEVC decoding capabilities, and super neat cabling (more like "near zero" cabling with the picoPSU and the PEG-less GTX...

By the way the effect of (a bit of) heat on SSDs is probably the opposite than on HDDs. They're said to charge the cells better when the temp is a bit higher (but not high enough to make the controller throttle). (whereas heat is the number one killer for HDDs as shown in many studies by...

Good. Another bizarre idea for a laugh: - GPU chamber constant at 50mm - motherboard chamber available in two sizes, maybe called "115x" (50mm) and "lga 2011" (80mm) The motherboard chamber "cover" would come in the form of a clip-on "shoebox top" (a box minus a side) and you could order one...

Maybe flexATX PSUs are not that bad after all...they're the only way to go sub-4L..not sure how safe it is to mod them with a different fan, though... As for the asymmetrical design, it's safe to say we need at least 45mm in the GPU chamber (dual slot GPUs are 40-41mm at the bracket, itx-sized...

Even splitting 50+80 would probably be enough to use a 65mm noctua L9x65 instead of a 37mm L9i (credits kwyjibo for the photo) this way we'd have better cooling than 90% of those small Lian Li (and others) cases with the SFX psu floating above the motherboard and forcing you to use a L9i...

Now that I see them I kinda like the foot one (maybe making the circle even bigger so the base of the case is fully inside the circle and SFX-L is supported) but as I said they were meant for a laugh. (still if someone came up with some kind of Philippe Starck shiny monolith design with the...

Ok, now I see what you mean, I was disregarding on which side the connectors are, my fault. That's a big problem. One that could even bring me to raise the ideal thickness for this kind of case from 100mm to 130mm (and after that propose to split it asimmetrically between the GPU compartment and...

Basically one could do this - 1TB m.2 SSD inside the machine - 8TB NAS (2 x 8TB raid1 for good measure) hidden in some closet for cheap data storage and backups Hopefully connected via gigabit, but even WiFi in this day and age is getting crazy fast and definitely fast enough to browse a NAS...

Before addressing a couple of posts here, I'd like to expand on the subject of "assumptions". I have a feeling that when you go below 8L you're mostly in it for the sake of it. It's a challenge. Nobody is that space limited. The challenge being "how low can you go using - a standard and...

Couple of side notes, in no particular order - this style of case feels like it should have been around for years (it's not like pcie risers weren't available), but only recently m.2 SSDs have become ubiquitous as boot drives and the interest for ODDs, 3.5" and 2.5" drives is fading into...

Taking the 2013-conceived DAN A4 and adapting it for the world of 2016 and 2017 (a world of beastly short cards like the R9 Nano and the eventual short version of pascal "1070") was the next logical step, so kudos to you. But I think a lot of people died a little inside when they saw the flex...

It is becoming increasingly clear that the new trend to shave those annoying extra liters and achieve maximum petiteness is to place the GPU back to back with the motherboard by way of a pcie riser, and let both the CPU and the GPU breathe straight from the sides, in an open air configuration...