Kreesh117

I'd love a NUC! I've been needing a decent home theater PC especially with the Steam in-home streaming thing now.

I'm seriously hyped about the new 900 series. The price drop with better power efficiency AND better performance is insane! And when I saw the picture of the AMP! Extreme, my jaw hit the floor. It's insanely sexy with the faux-carbon fiber look and the LEDs. I hope to buy one in the future to match my red and black build.

Also thank you for the pictures. I see what you were saying now and I've decided to go a different route entirely. I'm still going to go for the same motherboard and CPU, but instead I'm going to go for the Bitfenix Prodigy as well as a Swiftech H220-X AIO cooler, and the ASUS DCUII GTX 780 instead of the reference. All of this has massively dropped the price by several hundred dollars and will allow me to put it towards more useful parts. As much as I love the size and look of the ASRock M8.. it's just too difficult to work in without sacrificing what I'd consider some pretty important features. My only issue now is finding a decent power supply to go in it. I'm hoping to stick with the red and black scheme but being limited to about 160mm in depth I'm having issues finding anything to match that and stick around the ~750W+ range, but I haven't spent too much time searching for one so I'm sure I can find something.

Yeah, I made sure to check that it would. Core i7-4790K (4.0Ghz, 4C, HT, L3:8M, HD Graphic, 88W, rev.C0) http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_IMPACT/HelpDesk_CPU/

Frownwarrior, would you be able to send pictures showing that with the NH-l12 front audio can't be accessed via the SFX card? I've tried looking into using that cooler with the motherboard and from what I can see everyone says it's compatible as long as low profile RAM is used. There's no mention of any front audio issues. If you can't send pictures can you at least better explain as to why it won't work. Can it be plugged in going from the motherboard, under the cooler and up to the audio? This seems to be the only confliction I'm having. It it truly can't be done are there any other low-profile coolers that would have enough effect on a 4790k and keep it from getting uncomfortably high temps? I suppose at worst if it isn't compatible I could just use the rear audio instead but I'd like to know before I go putting over $2000 on a build that is just going to overheat and not be able to use the audio. Thank you.

Alright, thank you to the both of you. Solution? I'm going with Kingston HyperX FURYs instead and I'll look into the front audio issue.

I'm currently planning on making a build in ASRock's M8 case. The plan is to replace everything in it with some pretty beefy hardware for the size. Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VI IMPACT CPU: i7 4790k CPU cooler: Noctua NH-L12 RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2x 8GB) GPU: GeForce GTX 780 SC Reference (need blower design to exhaust heat out the back as this build will be tight and four 70mm fans with the added heat doesn't bode well) PSU: SilverStone SFX 600W I went to Noctua's sight but cant seem to find what the height limitations on RAM would be (if there are any) and need to know whether the Vengeance Pros will work in this case. If anyone knows whether it will, most likely I'm just missing it on Noctua's site, I'd really appreciate it! (also I'm still a little iffy on whether the NH-L12 will be compatible with the IMPACT but haven't been able to find out any more that "It will most likely work." The board is pretty jam-packed) Thank you, Ethan

Oh I missed that.. Well thank you! I'm pretty sure that it is removable but I'll look into it more just to make sure. Thank you for your help.

So I've been looking into the ASRock M8 lately for a high end, more easily portable gaming rig. As of right now my desktop is in NZXT's Phantom and is a nightmare to move especially for LAN gaming and whatnot. My plan was to buy the M8 and basically just strip it of the hardware it has (as the design of the case is more what I'm after) and throw in the highest end hardware I could. These being an Intel 4790k processor, one of Noctua's low profile coolers, EVGA 780 SC, and ASUS's MAXIMUS VI IMPACT motherboard. It's pretty evident that the included 450W PSU will not cut it in this case. But my issue is I can't find the dimensions of the included PSU and have no idea what dimensions I'd be limited to so no clue where to begin to look for a better one. If anyone knows of a PSU that will handle this kind of load (hopefully modular or partially so but not necessary) and still fit the dimensions of the case I'd be very thankful for some help as it's the only thing holding me back right now. Thank you, Ethan