The Nuclear Football- 4770k + 780TI ITX

[YellowDragon]

After recently selling off my old graphics cards and various other leftover parts. I thought I was due for a new build. I decided to use nothing from any of my previous builds and go for a tricked out ITX box with the goal to cram as much hardware in the tiniest box that i could find, while still  having the parts of a top of the line single GPU system. Im naming this build The Nuclear Football due to the case.

 

 

Parts List:

Case: lIAN lI PC 200U Itx Case

CPU: Intel Core i7- 4770K

MoBo: ASUS Z87I-Deluxe ITX

RAM: 4gb x2 Corsair Vengence LP 1600 Mhz

GPU: ASUS GTX 780TI

PSU: SilverStone Strider Gold 550W Modular 140mm Power Supply

Cooler: Noctua L9i 95mm Low Profile CPU Cooler

SSD: 120g Corsair Force GT

HDD: 2x 1TB WD Caviar Black in RAID 1

 

Here's an overview shot of the parts to tide you over, more pics coming soon.

 

Here's a pic of the inside of the case:

 

 

 

 

Since this is a techforum, Im not going to bore you with stock shot imatations. First Up the Mobo With the L9i cooler and Vengeance RAM.

 

Installing the Mobo into the case:

 

I really hope Nvidia sticks with these types of coolers, they just look so damn sexy.

 

Stuffing the large graphics card in:

 

So far so good:

 

 

How about some internal shots:

 

 

All done:

[whatthe_fuzz]

DONT POST ON THE FORUMS DAMNIT! START BUULDING! I WANNA SEE RESULTS BY TONIGHT

[TheRuke]

[ForsakenLive]

I want to see I want to see!

[nkucz]

I need more...

[Impact Blue]

:droolz:

 

currently dreaming of a these specs. Its worth 3 months of my salary 

[Guest]

DONT POST ON THE FORUMS DAMNIT! START BUULDING! I WANNA SEE RESULTS BY TONIGHT

 

How do you make an "expand thing" in your signature?

[Kiukaz]

More. MOre.MORe.MORE NOW FOR LOVE OF GOD I NEED MORE... I've just found a new drug...

[YellowDragon]

All good to go,

 

Temps:

CPU Idle, 34C

CPU load 65C

GPU Idle 33C

GPU load 81C

 

No overclocking as of yet, makes me a bit nervous with such a small cooler.

 

If anyone else wants to try a build in this case, I will advise of one thing, watch your powersupply mine was 140mm long and still I was trying to shoehorn the thing in.

 

Cable management is non-existent in this case, no tiedows, nada. Everything is really  crammed in there, expect to run parts at stock or close to stock. My main motive was a smaller power house to lug to and from college.

 

I wired the front fan to 12V, its still pretty quiet, I just want to make sure everything is getting cooled properly. The loudest and most annoying thing is honestly the harddrives as I can hear the write/read heads engage clearly and the case is all Aluminum so the sound kinda reverbs. Hopefully when SSDs drop to $300 per TB I can replace them so the thing is dead silent and even faster

[austin541]

very cool.

[TicTac]

soo small

[zxcvbnmmssdh]

Awesome, who's carrying the football now?

[Biased Opinion]

things that would make this case shine would be super short custom made cables and if only you did not have so many drives. you could stick the 3.5inch in the 5.25inch bay and put the ssd on the underside of it maybe velcroed to the thing. Buy doing this you would not need the drive cages and would give everything much more room to breath. Infact if you went with a 3 or 4 tb drive and the SSD you would still have more storage than you have now and better airflow.

[DeanWonAgain]

how was the overclocking on this card? ive heard that on the 780ti that aren't from evga the voltage is locked is this true? how far have you pushed it? in the middle of a similar build with a similar 780ti and im interested to know, thanks. great build btw

[YellowDragon]

how was the overclocking on this card? ive heard that on the 780ti that aren't from evga the voltage is locked is this true? how far have you pushed it? in the middle of a similar build with a similar 780ti and im interested to know, thanks. great build btw

Im not running an overclock on any of the components yet. The Asus 780TI is just like the rest of the other 780TIs its voltage locked to 106% power, I think even the EVGA ones are like this except the new kingpin design. The CPU im not even gonna try to push it, the noctua cooler im using is nothing more then a glorified stock cooler with quieter operation, this case is almost hard limited with a 80mm max height CPU cooler, with the larger then normal PSU that size realistically is 60mm, so its rather hard to get anything out of the CPU without a de-lid.

[DeanWonAgain]

Im not running an overclock on any of the components yet. The Asus 780TI is just like the rest of the other 780TIs its voltage locked to 106% power, I think even the EVGA ones are like this except the new kingpin design. The CPU im not even gonna try to push it, the noctua cooler im using is nothing more then a glorified stock cooler with quieter operation, this case is almost hard limited with a 80mm max height CPU cooler, with the larger then normal PSU that size realistically is 60mm, so its rather hard to get anything out of the CPU without a de-lid.

thanks for the reply

[YellowDragon]

things that would make this case shine would be super short custom made cables and if only you did not have so many drives. you could stick the 3.5inch in the 5.25inch bay and put the ssd on the underside of it maybe velcroed to the thing. Buy doing this you would not need the drive cages and would give everything much more room to breath. Infact if you went with a 3 or 4 tb drive and the SSD you would still have more storage than you have now and better airflow.

little pricy to replace the drives as of now, especially when they both work great, I might go for a larger SSD in the future. I dont know if I could bring myself to basically scrap two working Black level drives. If intel comes out with their 2TB SSD in the spring I might be convinced to get rid of mechanical drives entirely.

[nkucz]

thinking about getting this cooler for my itx build, what are your thoughts on it? I have a 4670k what temperatures can I expect?