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Impressive to the end I think some cases manufacturer should take exemple on the way you handled this "little" baby Congratulations dear swiss neighbour

Thank you for your replies Actually i can get a pretty good discount on this 980ti (20%) and now i more seriously consider the opportunity of buying it (only 1card, better temps, little watts. But there's still one thing i'm curious about, the card gets an awesome AIO cooler but o'd like to know if the built-in fan is as inaudible as everyone says, i reckon you can change the rad's fan but what if the turbine fan is a screamer ? If that is the case is it actually possible to tone it down and get pretty much a complete silent card ? My sli was almost silent when idle but tended toget noisier when pushing it. So can the settings ofd this card be fully programmed (bios/soft) to maintain silence ?

I might also ad that i soon plan on getting a 21/9 3440/1440 screen. Headphones yes, but not all the time on , but thanks for the idea So basically waiting would be a better idea apparently ?

Hello everyone, I searched the forum but did not found a topic on this, so if there is please do not hesitate to redirect me Here goes, I got a Asus gtx 780 sli (1 DCU2 and a Poseidon, yeah not a matching pair but i got the poseidon for dirt cheap so...) wich run good (well, pretty good) but have 1 major issue to them, noise, especially with most recent games, so I was thinking about getting the gtx 980ti hybrid from EVGA http://www.amazon.fr/EVGA-06G-P4-1996-KR-graphique-GTX980TI-PCI-Express/dp/B00Z6VMWFO/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1442765342&sr=8-9&keywords=gtx+980+ti But i'm still dubious about wether it is really worth it, especially since the new generation of Pascal's gpu will be coming next year and "should" offer a dramatic increase in perfs. In a nutshell, is it a better idea idea to wait or is the 980ti not close to be beaten ? Thank you in advance

This is one RIG that won't fall, but if it ever... make sur your downstair neighbours aren't under the case Impressive till the end Might be stupid to ask but why not attach wheels to it ? just to be able to move it a bit more easilly

I'll be looking forward to this new build then :3

If they had NES like that back in the 80's, we'd be riding flying motorbikes to Jupiter nowadays

Here it is Soooo, after a few hours of drilling, this is the result Surely this is not professionnal work and it is not entended to. I got my vents done, that's the most important, even more since it's not the visible side of the case. However, id anyone sees this, please, wear protection goggles Placing the 2 Noctua 9mm thick fans (no screws needed ) Aaaaaaand something I'm pretty happy about. I wanted rubber feets, but couldn't get a good size/matter at decent prices. So, what I i did was very cheap and easy (and actually pretty solid). I went to the DIY store and got 8 standard rubber feets for 1€40 (1$90) and used some rapid solid glue to stick those ON the existing aluminum feets No noise, good grip and stability, and they did not move a millimeter when brutalized :rolleyes: And finaly, the rest of the component you already saw previously One thing though, the rubber screws with the noctua fans actually had clearance issues with the GPU cooler, so i ziptied themflat to be sure they would not hinder it. The last change i did was putting Low Noise Adaptator for the 2 bottom fans because they were too loud and kept the big 15cm front fan standard to maximize airflow. It is finally build I installed windows 7 on it and ran it for about 2 hours just to check every thing is ok. Temps wise, in a room about 27°c the case was 29°c and the cpu 34°c ans with very decent low noise level. Almmost there, the last thing needed will be to test the gpu in real world situation See ya

Thank you both Thank you I was really hung up on having a clean build, even more so since it is an ITX, i usually read that itx are a pain to cable manage but i'm sure that with a bit of patience, trial and errors, it is possible to have a fairly well ventilated case, that was my moto when setting this up I will update the topic soon, since i made some minor change inside the case, mostly replacing the rivets holding the case together with standard screws And, if made, the bottom ventilation grid with the two noctua NF A9x14 See you soon

Amazing case project But, will it blend ? I would have thought that anodised aluminum would actually weigh less...40 kg, looks like a very heavy duty case

Awesome When is the Batmobile coming out then ? x)

Beside I don't know what to say else !

Indeed, it was partly thanks to this build that i wanted to build my own, i'll add some change though so it won't be the exact, but it' in the same path yeah

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/370541-an-itx-quiet-all-rounder-at-last/ Here is the build log Topic Hope you like it

Hellow I recently started a build in the Lian Li PC TU100B (previous topic here : http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/357635-an-itx-quiet-all-rounder/#entry4883147 )and I indeed said that i would keep a build log. So, here it is First things first, here goes all the stuff i'll get inside the case After carefully studying the PCTu100 i noticed something i never saw or heard of in the builds i saw before inside this case. that is mounting the OS drive and a ODD on to the same support, wich save me a lot of room later on at the bottom of the case for the GPU and eventually some additionnal fans intake (my Dremel is ready B) ) After that, I replaced the original fan sith a noctua NFA 15, yes, it DOES fit inside this case (I vas also quite surprised ) and i could even keep the dust protection Mobo Time then, just the basics, and i placed it inside so I could plan the cable management before hand (first build log so i'm trying to be therall, tell me if it's too much) oh and the noctua LH A9 is awesome :wub: . Here are some global and inside shots before and during the cable routing And now time for the GPU (so small, i was overwelmed by the fact if actually could fit in my hand ) and the PSU (same story, its designed products sure are small ) Now, Phase 1 is done Yep i'm calling this phase 1 because i'll not let this case as it is out of the box (the PC Tu) because even tough after a quick test i got 33° idle on the CPU and aroud 28-29° on the gpu (24-25 room temperature) I prefer to take a bit more time to optimize cable management and therefore airflow. As you can see in the picture below, cables can be routed in various places aroud the ODD bay so i'll be worling on that in a few days from now on Cable sleeving is, after consideration, not useful, it'd only take more space and forbid some routing due to added thickness of the cables. Noise wise, it was very, very silent event though the short measuring i did were qith the side panels off. BUT because yes there is a "but"... four of them actually. Come on Lian Li, you provide a well build case and you put Aluminum feet under it ???????!!!!! I dig that having well polished half bulb feets can looks coll, but hey, couldn't they include rubber feets ? So yeah, i am trying very hard to find a set of 4 rubber sound/vibration dampening feet to make sure this little baby does not scratch the carpet and hiss like crazy if laid on hard surface. So, here it is, hope you enjoyed it and I'll keep this up to date later. See ya