djburnsey

Ok so i have been planing this build for over a year and waiting for the parts to become available and after so long it is finally done. My initial idea was to build the fasted pc possible in the smallest amount of space so a ps1 was chosen as it is only 2.1645 litres and i wanted a challenge. i seen that the asrock desk mini could support a gtx 1080 and foung out how small the mother bored was. it was then that it was decided that i would use this as the base Specs Case: it should be obvious by the title a PS1 Processor: intel 8th Gen Core i7-8700K Processor Motherboard: Asrock Z370M-STX MXM Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB GDDR5X) MXM card Ram: 32 GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR4 Laptop Memory (only 16gb used see below why) Storage: Intel 760p 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive water cooling loop Alphacool NexXxoS XT45 Full Copper 40mm Triple radiator 3x Noctua NF-A4x10 FLX ( 40x40x10mm ) Alphacool NexXxos GPX Pro Solo with backplate - black tubing PUR 8/6mm (1/4"ID) clear 8/6mm (6x1mm) barb fitting G1/4 thermal grizzly conductonaut (it needs it) acrylic spray (reading the instruction it mentions not to be sold to the public and to be used by professionals witch i'm not) miscellaneous stuff bought switches led mother bored standoffs Crimp pin connectors latch connectors The build This was a time consuming project took be about 2 and a half months to complete (it was done is my spare time and i was on holiday for two weeks) and frustrating as the is next to no room when building inside of something so small. Ps1 prep I stated of buy removing the inner workings of the play station witch to my surprise the ps1 i bought was chipped and giving the case a clean as this console has been sitting in the back of a store for a long time after that came the fun part using a dremel to remove all of the bumps, screw holes and divider plate to make room for the mother board and space for the rear io. then making some holes for the mother board stand offs I used hot glue to connect the switch and led to the case so the power and reset buttons work and the led turn on like the original ps1. I also use hot glue to connect the latch switch to allow the lid to open and close I was not able to use the original button to do this as the radiator it in the way Mother board prep and why only 16GB of ram So as i am using liquid metal in this build i need to protect my components with an acrylic spray it easy to use just spray on to a cotton swam and start covering every thing around what you are about to liquid metal. found out this can take a lot of time so i went with the easier method and just sprayed it on making sure i covered the cpu and gpu chips but i forgot to cover the ram so after it hardened and i went to post the PC it failed to boot turns out the first ram socket i cover some of the pins preventing contact as the cpu still recognises that it is there but cant store properly it get stuck in a post loop. i have tried to remove the acrylic but to no success i spent nearly a week under a black light with sand paper to remove the acrylic but to no success so i left the second stick out Water cooling loop build so i turns out that the gpu block o bough does not fit on the mxm card as the mounting hole are to close on the card but i did notice that the screws that hold the cooling plate to the plastic housing match up with the holes on the gpu so i got some long bolts and the dried through the hole for the screw in the plastic housing fed the bold through the top of the plastic housing then the cooling plate and finally onto the gpu making sure to bolt the block back together tightly as space is limited in a ps1 i decided to skip having a reservoir it is possible but not required as filling the loop requires submerging parts water a letting it run until no air is left i done this by filling a bucket with deionized water at puting the radiator and pipe in then taking a bottle of deionized water and connecting it to the end of the pipe and squeezing the water through the loop then once all the air bubbles where out disconnecting the bottle and connecting the pipe to the radiator under water The Finished Product It runs just like any other PC it is a bit on the hotter side having idle temps of about 50c at idle i have not yet done a stress test on it to see if it will throttle but will update later with the results I could probably have done better a cutting the holes maybe next time and i cant find the panel for the parallel port might have to print one will link more photos at after bench marking with the case apart Edited to correct spelling mistakes and to include new photos below and performance info Performance Under full synthetic load the pc thermal cut out due to over heating but can still manage to keep it temps below 50C when under light load and should be fine whilst gaming one other thing i noticed when benching is that it is a lot quieter than i expected tested it with my phones db meter and it was at about 22 db a meter away and up close reaching 33 in front and near 60 db right next to the fans but I believe this was manly due to the air being blown into the mic

Found a solution updated to windows 10. It has solved the problem.

For the past 6 month since after I rebuild my computer after changing the graphics and cooling for my computer. every time I turn on the computer from a cold boot it will turn on and pause at the screen where it starts to load windows. it stays like this for about 3 minutes then turns off. when I then turn the computer on after that it will boot perfectly and on takes about <1 minute to load windows and will work fine after that. some times when I turn it off after that it will turn on fine and some times it will do the same thing again or it may go into windows recovery. note: I think it may have to do with the hard drive being place into different sata ports. since originally installed win8 i have tried resetting the bios but that has not helped Pc specs: cpu: amd fx9590 motherboard: asrock 990FX Extreme9 gpu: amd r9 295x2 240gb ssd 320gb hard drive 500gb hard drive 4000gb hard drive blue ray player parts that where replace navidia msi geforce gt630 any other details feel free to ask

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i found out about Linus tech tip at Christmas 2013 when i decided to build my own computer because i was not sure of all the things that i needed to buy to build a computer.

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