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Update #4 [03/18/2021] Retroactive Build Process Part 1 (RGB-ing the Noctuas) The AWOL-ness is strong in this build log lol. BUT here we go. I started toying with the idea of having RGB fans when I realized there isn't a lot of space for LED strips on the build. I wanted some sort of subtle glow/breathing effect whenever I felt like it. After settling with Noctua I had to figure out how to LED-ify them. The solution? Phantek's Halo Lux: This shot was taken after modifying the thickness of the Halo Luxes to fit the case. The bottom fan slots of the SM580 only has space (thickness-wise) for a standard 140mm or 120mm fan and maybe 2.5mm of breathing room. See below: This was an issue as the Halo Lux was about 3mm thick so the combined array of RGB add-on and fan would not fit. Solution? I sanded the heck out of the Halos: Which made them thin enough to fit under the small fan slots. This solves the compromise of using Noctua fans but wanting some LED RGB lighting to accent the innards of my build! For the next update, we'll finally start showing how we put this baby together. Took a lot of patience as this was my first sandwich style ITX build. See you all on the next update!

I've finally gotten around putting up pics of the final product--but due to my busy sched I decided to upload it on instagram first: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL8YHaVH-TP/ I'll upload in-progress pics and completed pics on here at some point--albeit retroactively.

Update: Thanks for the help folks! The "We'll get you some adapters instead" speech worked lol. Case closed hahah

Ah! That's fascinating. Basically bridging the signals from on layout to another.

*My mind rn*: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN! No seriously, thanks! I'll use this in my speech check/argument. lol

Only one I found is this 1650: But the 1650's 33% slower than the current 1060 6GB card we're trying to match. Yeah personally am a proponent of DP for my personal stuff. Was just looking to see if there are any solutions right off the bat. I guess we're going with adapters! Wish me luck convincing the client

I guess so. Client says they don't trust HDMI - DP converters--those shouldn't have any loss in quality right?

Hello! As the title says, I need a GPU that has at least 3 HDMI Outputs. Caveat is that it needs to be equal or better than a GTX 1060 6GB. Any help would be appreciated!

Hahahah No no, I did trade over running on 2 hours of sleep daily for 3 weeks hunting for that thing. Finally got it via BestBuy last October

Mine was pretty surreal--everything felt smoother. Switched to a 144Hz monitor two months ago (Overclocked it to 160Hz recently though). Decided to play Valorant with NVIDIA Reflex and GSync on. First time I won a Deathmatch in the year that I've played. I noticed that I'm reacting to peeps popping out faster? Might be placebo but who knows. My eyes see it

I agree that it's thermal throttling, but it's a laptop? If you're able to feel the air come out then the fans able to breathe hmm. Thermal paste issue? Not that experienced with laptops.

Hmm, well KVMs that I've used only switch multiple USB/Display inputs into certain outputs. You might need a thunderbolt 3 dock/switch or something similar for this need--I just personally have not encountered such a device in my line of work yet.

So if I'm getting this right, you want to switch all your peripherals and displays to either the laptop or the NUC/"ServerPC" at will without moving/plugging cables around? Why not look into triple-monitor KVM switches? I personally have only used dual monitor switches but for the same purpose for my professional work. Thing about them is that they're a little finicky at times. https://www.amazon.com/CKL-Switch-Triple-Monitor-DisplayPort/dp/B089NNJ6DP Thoughts?

Aaaahhh it's MONDAY?! Yeah something about today made me think it's Saturday lol. But I guess it's just some bored DDoS cannon user. Hope it resolves soon though.

Not just you, getting the same thing here.

Heck yeah! Glad to see a fellow SM580 user--not a lot of us out there no? Yeah you'll find that you need to pop the GPU rear-end first, get the rear IO clear of the PCI holes in the back, then you'll swing the front of the card in. There's a slim slim margin when it's in but it's enough. And yeah the SF750 is such a darn pain to find. I actually forgot that I have another one with an ETA of 12/28/2020 from a different supplier, but at this point that would be a 3 month wait... Thanks for checking out my log! Good luck with your build.

I'm getting the same messages as you. Either LTT's getting DDOS by some fancy shmancy setup or there's a lot of users this Saturday night. Hope it's the latter though.

Ah the good old flipping options in the BIOS trick! Glad to see this got resolved though.

Can you plug in the monitor to something else? Check if it's the monitor or cable.

Update #3 [12/21/2020] Meet The Components AWOL aside, I've finally got the parts all pretty and photographed--ready for their LTT Build Log debut. Before I start, I would like to give a very special thanks to Noctua for the support with this Tiny Titan build! Big performance can come in small packages (*Wink Wink Nudge Nudge* )--spoiler alert: they can also be quiet and thermally impressive. Noctua's currently one of the best manufacturers in terms of silent yet efficient cooling solutions on the PC building market. I'd trust and recommend them to anyone thinking of building their own rigs. Anyways, as shown, I'll be using industrialPPCs (Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM) for my exhaust and intake. Onto other parts, Illya's new PSU will be Corsair's SF750. As the name suggests, it's an SFX PSU that provides 750 watts of juice at 80 Plus Platinum efficiency. This part actually took the longest--I had to wait for a wholesaler from China to ship one over (Over a 2 month wait, ordered in October, it came December 5th). Illya's CPU cooling solution will be NZXT's Kraken Z63--I chose to pair this with the delidded 8700k due to the amazing cooling performance of this 280mm AIO. The Z/X63/73 series use Asetek's 7th gen pump and coldplate design. It pairs amazingly with the SM580 case and the Noctua NF-A14 fans to keep my system running cool. Next up are the RAM and main OS NVME drive. For the RAM, I'm going with Kingston's HyperX Predator RGB RAM. This pair gives us 32GB of Dual Channel memory while running at 3600MHz. In terms of our main OS drive, I opted for a 500GB Samsung 970 EVO plus. In general, I'm keeping as many similar (yet modern) parts as possible with Illya's first version. Next up are my storage solutions--I'm using IllyaV2 for both work and play so I'm going to get a lot of mileage from this set up. First up is Crucial's P5 1TB NVME, this will serve as my most used/played gaming and app NVME. I'm planning to leverage NVME's speed for my games (usually play open world games). I'm also banking on games with RTX IO to come out--basically, RTX IO allows the GPU to draw data immediately from the NVME drive instead of going through CPU and RAM. I'm adding visual aids below (Article Source Link) *Quick Note: After building the rig and playing some Cyberpunk, I noticed that the Crucial P5 was staying at a hot 65C. It took a while to cool down. To mitigate this I had to order EKWaterblock's NVME heatsink. Now my temps at artificial load is 52C and idling at 40C. 2nd is ADATA's 2TB SU800 which will serve as my auxiliary games and apps drive. Non-critical apps like CPU-Z, NZXT Cam, etc will live on this drive. Games like Among Us, Space Crew, League of Legends, basically my not-so-played games will also be on here. Last but not least, my main data drive will be a 4TB Samsung 860 QVO. All my storage will be on this drive. My photography hobby alone ate up about 2TB of space on Illya V1 so stepping up to a 4TB was a no brainer. Finally, a quick pic of the CPU and MoBo combo that will tie this whole thing together. The CPU is an i7-8700k delidded by @SiliconLottery (their site), this process all in all took a week (3 days of shipping from Los Angeles to their Texas labs, 1 day of them working and binning the chip, 3 days to ship back from them) I'm very happy with their services and would urge anyone to use them in the future. IllyaV2's chip is binned at top 83% as being able to hit 5GHz at 1.4V (confirmed this myself but it's stable at 1.385V). The MoBo is a used AsRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac which I chose for its extremely high capability to hold CPU clocks 5.0GHz and higher. Got it off of a used PC part seller on EBay--it was hard to find one in working order took me a good month of searching and waiting. That's it for this update! Many thanks for checking out my build log. If you have any questions or comments I try to log in daily and will answer them! See you all on the next update!

Aaah apologies for the AWOL-ness!! Thanks so much for visiting my humble build log! Glad it served as good inspiration! So onto your query, I did a little bit of PCIe 3 vs 4 research before going into this--most of my findings show that there isn't (as of now at least with the 30xx series) a difference between the two. Games show a 0-1% deviation in FPS (in PCIe 4's favour) while my productivity stuff like Blender etc shows no difference. Vids for reference: Thanks for checking out my build! Hey! So spoiler alert, I've finished building this thing. Part of the AWOL was me enjoying the heck out of this new PC--will update the logs soon. So just for you: thermals are surprisingly good for being dual non-vented acrylic panels, I've undervolted the 3090 to 850mV (@1875MHz) and the CPU's chilling at 5GHz @ 1.38V. Temps (GPU = 73C; CPU = 74-76C) are as shown below: Thanks so much! I learned from the best. Will keep it up

Hey schway, not sure if this the right subforum for this but we're still here to help. Do you have a specific price range for your PSU?

Last mile to go! But I gotta say, this gave me Matrix vibes--not sure why.

Update #2 [12/04/2020] Custom PSU Cables and Vinyl Wrapping the SM580 Illya v1 was built in a Bitfenix Prodigy case, the mITX version. It was amazing, perfect for my college student lifestyle back then. We're moving constantly every 9 months so its size and portability was much appreciated. But still, it was time to move on. What I thought I would miss the most however, was the colour. Oh man that red colour drew me the first time I saw it. The SM580 discontinued their red version of the case recently. They only had black, white, or gray which kind of disappointed me. So I had a choice--go boring with black/grey/white or take matters into my own hands? I chose to use my hands. It took me a while to find a close enough vinyl film to match the red Prodigy but we did it--after ordering a few sample sized pieces we settled with 3M's M13 Matte Red. We'll have a side-by-side comparison photo a little further down this log. And so the wrap began. Actually, for others who are thinking about wrapping your cases, some things to make your life easier would be: A sharp pair of scissors A vinyl squeegee/applicator (it helps to get one that has felt on one end) An exacto knife A heatgun or hairdryer Microfiber cloth I would say take your time and be patient. I've ruined some of my vinyl by overstretching the pieces over corners. After speaking to a friend about it, I was told that this particular 3M vinyl is pressure activated. Meaning that so long as I don't push the material I can peel it off and on freely. Voila! The front panel took me about 40ish minutes but that's because I restarted twice. But overall not too shabby from a distance. I decided not to do the acrylic window panels for now--maybe in the future I'll consider it! Here's that side-by-side shot I mentioned: Overall I'm pretty pleased with the wrap! Most definitely a fitting homage to her first version. The manufacturers actually messaged me on social media about my "red SM580" and it looks like I was able to fool them! Chat log below: It's great to hear from the creators of this case--it's even better when the actual creators commend your own custom handiwork. I would recommend them to anyone looking for amazing SFF cases. Most definitely one of the best in the market at this time. Commissioned Custom Cables: Speaking of custom handiwork, the last part of this update will showcase some custom wrapped PSU cables I commissioned from DreamBigByRay. They're an Etsy merchant taking custom orders for PSU power cables! Some samples of his stuff and pricing (USD) below: Since I'm building in a small form factor case, I needed my PSU cables to be as short as I can to save space. I don't have the luxury of hiding yards and feet of cables in such a small case. On top of that, I HATE the 12-pin adaptor with a passion. It's bulky, sticks out at a weird angle, and it'll look hideous in any build! So I contacted Ray's shop, I provided them with my PSU model, exact measurements on how long each cable needed to be, and what pattern and material I wanted them to be wrapped in! Talk about bespoke! I was pleasantly surprised when it came in: They look so short as if they're only PSU extension cables but I assure you these are full PSU replacements. Look how crisp and clean that 12-pin GPU power cable looks like now! Compare that to the darn bulky extension cable NVIDIA supplies. The build is coming along slowly. If you've read my update this far, thanks! It's a pretty lengthy update so I appreciate it. More coming soon so I hope to see you all on the next ones!

This is a sign of a true follower of the SFF way hahah. Yeah it looked clean from that photo