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I think it's the same as the 1080 armor, you need to bend the power cables hard at 90 degrees but it works fine with the stiff Corsair cables, no bulge at the top of the case.Does anyone have an MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X in their A4-SFX? Does it fit OK?
I see in Dan's first post in the thread he lists it as maybe too tall and issue with power connectors, can anyone confirm?
Any info/pics from someone who has this card would be much appreciated!
Does anyone have an MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X in their A4-SFX? Does it fit OK?
I see in Dan's first post in the thread he lists it as maybe too tall and issue with power connectors, can anyone confirm?
Any info/pics from someone who has this card would be much appreciated!
So a quick 20min prime95 run, at 1.15am
, gave me 72 degrees Celsius. That's at the default 3.2 on all cores. There is no temperature offset on my 1700. That is immediately after installing, I expect temperatures to drop a bit once the tim spreads/settles a bit. Also I did a crazy tim application method which may not be optimal... I am pretty happy, it is a real no fuss solution, I'm sure I could drop the temps slightly with a duct too. Based on continued research, when gaming at 1440p or in any GPU bound scenario I see no benefit going with an i7. I am really happy with this setup!They wouldn't make it bigger if it wasn't better. However, if you get the l9i you can put it on an Intel system or a Ryzen system once you have the free adaptor. Might be easier to sell at a later date? Honestly I think the l9a will be good enough for any Ryzen chip at stock including the 1800x. In fact I think the 1800x would be great in the Dan A4 as it is a great balance of high two-core boost and I think the all-core speed of 3.6 should be manageable too. That said if you are gaming I would say put the money extra money (1700, 1700x Vs 1800x) into your GPU instead.
The 1700 turbos to 3.7 on two cores at stock. I was going to try overclock to 3.6/3.7 on all cores too but I am not sure it will gain much if anything in gaming performance as it is already "turbo-ing" to that frequency on two cores? I haven't found any proper analysis...
If you look at the static pressure of the noctua 90mm and 120mm thin fans the 90mm is higher i think. Unless you want a fan to act over a larger area, like Dan's cooler, the smaller 90mm fans are just as good if not better. Air will always try to find the easiest path and that is not though a heatsink, most of the air will flow around the sides of the heatsink. That's my theory anyway.
It stabilised at 68 degrees at 2500rpm after not long, I ran it for over two hours to confirm it wasn't slowly increasing. Ambient temperature was 23 degrees. I will do a final test and add it to the Google spreadsheet soon. Very happy overall
No problem, yea I think the Ryzen chips are a great fit for the Dan case. I suspect that the L9a would even cope with a 1800x, hopefully someone will try it! I suppose I could overclock too simulate an 1800x but I I want to do some gaming now that my system is setup nicely!
While I don't recall if anyone has actually used it in their case yet, It should fit with a few caveats: You will have to mod the case to allow the power connectors to come in through the front of the case behind the front panel, and because of this, you will probably not be able to mount an ssd behind the front panel.
Thanks, I had to use internet explorer to download it, edge was blocking it somehow... I'm sure Chrome would work, although it didn't on my phone, but I like to keep my system with as little software as possible. I'll post some final results in the next couple of days.
Will there be another kickstarter soon ??? i cant believe i missed it
