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Assuming there's a nice heatsink under that shroud, attaching some fans to it shouldn't be that big of an issue. I believe linus showed it can be done in about half an hour with some zip-ties. If you're feeling frisky, check out my topic that Cristophe mentioned above. If none of those are viable options, the NZXT G12 should work fine, as was also mentioned. Godspeed!

Hehe yeah... It's a beast of a card. The PCB is an absolute beauty too! That's pretty cool (no pun intended :P). Honestly, I just thought it'd be nice to do a custom mounting solution which integrates the anti-vibration mounts that come with the fans, since I've got the resources to do it at home.

Hopefully I can try to design version 2 to.... compliment the "industrial" look of the fans! Or I'll just hide them behind a shroud

Thermals are kind of wierd at the moment. They're better than stock, but not by the margin you'd expect (it maxes out at about 70 degrees celsius under 100% load, compared to 81 stock). I'm pretty sure that this is down to a few things - The gap between the fans and the heatsink isn't great. This is the primary reason why I want to make a version 2. This is a very early, rough mockup of how I want it to sit against the heatsink in the future, as opposed to the simple brackets it has now. I'm also pretty sure that I've got issues either with one of the fan connectors, or one of the two fan hubs I have in the system, as I've got some wierd behaviours and reporting.

So a few weeks ago, two of the fans on my Asus Strix 980ti broke. Having recently gotten myself a 3d-printer, I figured this was a great opportunity to put it to good use. After waiting for 3 Noctua NF-A9x25s, and some simple design work, this is the result! NZXT H440 for scale. Barely squeezes in behind the HDD panel! For those that don't know - the Strix 980ti is one of the largest graphics cards ever, even at stock. My card now measures in att 33cm x 15cm x 6cm. It's kind of stupid. Now, the card has some massive sag even as standard, so there was no way I was going to stand it up without some sort of support. Luckily, the first ever print I made was f*cking perfect for the job. As luck would have it, a few days after completing this masterpiece I ran into @AlexTheGreatish and @BRollTheIntern while working at Dreamhack over the weekend. Both gave me a "That's awesome" out of 10. As a sidenote, it was super cool meeting you guys! Was kinda starstruck I'm not finished with this beast yet, though. The 3d-printed parts were designed just so that I could get the card working again, and the quality of the prints is kinda shoddy. Soon, I'll probably print a more complete shroud. Although I can't get a baseline for my specific card, I'll also do some benchmarking on it then, as well! Stay tuned for part 2!

Yeah, the zenbook is definitely a fair bit more expensive. To be honest, though, it's not an exorbitant price point considering the stats. The zenbook is 14", while in the same 13" basic shell that mine is in. You usually pay a larger premium for downsizing. The extra 250$ is well worth the size reduction and thermal engineering that has gone into it, to me at least! The swift looks great, though. so I don't think you'll regret it in the least

I'm using an Asus Zenbook UX303. It's a few years old now, and only has a 940mx, but it's an AMAZING laptop. Super portable and sleek, absolutely silent, and more than fast enough for my needs, and didn't cost me a fortune. The new models have MX150 graphics, so if I were you I would look at the UX430 or similar. Assuming the quality hasn't gone down, you just can't go wrong with it.

That looks awesome! The hard part would be balancing the budget in such a way that you ensure low framerates... Would be tricky, but I would love seeing the teams go head to head on systems like that one. Would also be kinda cool to see the guys try to squeeze every possible frame out of the systems.

It's a shame! There are some great ideas that people have suggested! He's used to it though. He's also probably tuned game settings in order to get at least playable framerates. I'd like to see how @dezeltheintern plays at ~15 fps, as I'm sure it has at least some effect!

It's undeniably a risk. Hopefully that risk would be reduced by playing multiple titles, and switching around the players.

Been watching, and enjoying, the current season of SYW immensely over on Floatplane. While watching the latest episode, I had an idea - What if you do a SYW where you do no benchmarks, but rather determine the winners by actually playing? I present to you, the Masterrace LAN challenge! Each team is given a set amount of time and money to build 3 (or 5) separate systems. In the end, the winner is determined by which team's computers win the most games out of a list of popular e-sports titles, played at high resolution, with maxed details (hence the masterrace prefix). The idea is for the matches to be bottlenecked not by skill, but by performance! A few points: Building 3 or even 5 separate systems will require more time. You might want to give the competitors an extra day or two, but time should be tight, in order for the teams to be forced to take risks. Budget should be balanced such that the teams will have no feasible way of actually getting a full lineup of systems capable of good framerates. The teams should be forced to play on high-resolution monitors, to ensure high system requirements. The actual players should not be any of the system builders. They should be shoutcasting the intense games! In stead, the teams pick their players ahead of every game, alternating one at a time, with the teams taking turns getting first pick. The system builders also get to decide which player uses which system. Hopefully this will somewhat balance player skill, while allowing for some interesting strategies when parting out the systems. The teams could also be forced to get peripherals, to add another layer of fun! What do you guys think? I think it's a really interesting way to do something completely new with respect to the bencmarking. We've kind of become used to the same criterion for the past seasons.

Back in november, I started a build log for a laser-cut HTPC case. I was hoping to get that finished in about a month, but studies got in the way. I'm looking to get back to it in the coming weeks, but until then I thought I'd share one of the projects I've been doing in the mean time! So, I study Interaction design at the University of Malmö, which means I get to play around with, and make, a lot of interesting tech stuff. For the past 4 weeks, I've been working on a VR horror game which utilizes real objects. We finished it last week, and are quite happy with the result, especially seeing as none of us had any experience making 3d games before starting this project. I wrote about 95% of the code, and would only qualify myself as a middling programmer (the programmers here would cringe at some of the code I wrote as we neared the deadline). Figured you guys might like it!

During the POST, one of the steps is moving data onto your RAM, in order for your CPU to be able to access it quickly during operation. Enabling XMP and allowing it to run at its rated speed could theoretically speed up this process, and as a result lower your boot times. Enabling XMP won't have any great effect on your CPU temps. You're coming here for help, which is great as there are loads of people with varying expertise and experience who are willing to help. Yet you say no to every suggestion and come up with an excuse as to why it wouldn't work, and on top of that you act snarky to the people trying to help you. Do you think this is going to get you the help that you need? I'm done, and I'm pretty sure ARikozuM is too. Next time, try to be a bit more humble and accomodating.

Don't know what you can do about your windows load times then. I'm sure more wise men are prepared to help you here! As for the POST, regardless if you tell it to boot straight from the raid, it still has to set up all devices connected to the mobo. I'm guessing your storage has a dedicated raid controller (don't know how those types of cards actually run), which could explain the long setup time. So, to conclude, you might be able to do something to shorten those 15 seconds it takes windows to load, but you should expect not to be able to do a lot about the 35 seconds prior to it. In fact, I see that you don't even have your SLI setup in there yet, which might actually add some more time to the POST time.

Okay! The 15 seconds still sound slow considering your transfer speeds once booted. Maybe have a look at those drivers/updates and see if that changes anything. POST time should be completely unaffected by the speed of your storage device, though. It comes down to the amount and types of devices it has to detect and setup. I'm assuming that you and your friend doesn't have the same hardware, which could explain the discrepancy between your boot times. Just speculating here, but it could be possible that it takes the board a long time to detect and properly setup your storage, ironically. Might be worth your time to update the BIOS.