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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!
 
 
 

Update #1 [11/30/2020] Photo Op and Test Fit with the RTX 3090
 
I actually received the 3090 back in October, looking back I should've started the build log back then--but I had some sort of anxiety since I've not logged into LTT in years. But what matters is that I'm here now! Here are some photos--I haven't taken photos in months so this was a good treat for me:





 
Onto the test fit:
So after contacting Sliger both on the phone and online, I was pleased to hear that their SM580 can accommodate the RTX 3090. Here are some test fits photos:
 

 
It's almost comedic how this thing fits:


 
About 3mm clearance realistically when I measured. I'm glad I was able to nab a Founder's Edition otherwise I don't think anything else would fit.
 
Overall a good day, I've gotten over that slump of writing/starting this build log! See you all on the next update
 

Build Log: Illya v2.0, The Tiny Titan

Good Evening LTT! It's been about 7 years now since my first ever personal rig build--since then I've graduated, started a job, built hundreds of PCs as a side-job. With all the changes and growth I've gone through all these years, I've decided to put all I have learned into this machine. The main guideline I have for this build is: Build a small, compact desktop that deceptively outputs performance inversely proportional to her size.
 
Illya version 2 will be a high-ish end desktop that is still built around the mITX Mobo form factor. However, in contrast with her first form (a mid-tower mITX Prodigy), I've decided to follow the way of the SFFPC--I shall attempt to place all this raw power into a sub 20-liter case. After months of looking for such a case that can also house a triple slot 3090FE--I finally found the answer: Sliger's SM580.
 
I need Illya v2.0 to handle my tech hobbies and real life work: 3440x1440 +100FPS Gaming, Blender 3D renders, Editing my photography (Lightroom and Photoshop), and Unreal Editor (both v4 and v5 now).
 
In my early years, I've always been wary of watercooling--"Oh another point of failure" or "It'll leak all over," I thought. I even held a sort of disdain for it in my first build log here on LTT. After a good half-a-decade I started to pivot from this view as I started my full time job and subsequently a part-time job building custom PCs for clients. AIOs are pretty safe, some even have great full-PC replacement warranties to boot. Plus, if I'm trying to cram in all this performance in a 15.9 liter case, water is pretty much the only way to go.
 
In summary/tl:dr: Combine a 15.9 liter case (SM580) with an RTX 3090 and an old i7-8700k @5GHz on all cores whilst trying not to make this baby burn.
 
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Illya v2.0's Parts List
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Case:                                     Sliger SM580 (Dual Acrylic Panel version)
 
CPU:                                      Intel i7-8700K (Delidded and Liquid Metal'd via Silicon Lottery)

GPU:                                      Nvidia RTX 3090 Founder's Edition

CPU Cooler:                        NZXT Kraken Z63
 
Motherboard:                    AsRock Z390 Phantom Gaming ITXac
 
RAM:                                     HyperX Predator RGB 32GB @3600MHz
 
Boot NVME:                        Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 NVME 
 
Main Games NVME:       Crucial P5 1TB M.2 NVME 

Auxiliary Games SSD:   ADATA SU800 2TB SSD
 
Data Storage SSD:           Samsung 860 QVO 4TB SSD
 
Radiator Fans:                  2x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM
 
Intake Fans:                       2x Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM
 
PSU:                                      Corsair SF750
 
PSU Cables:                       Custom made by DreambigByRay (Etsy)
 
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Updates Below:

I'll update this as I go. I'm just having fun taking it slow and steady. I'll add updates below as well like my last build log. See you in the next update!

Update #1 [11/30/2020] Photo Op and Test Fit with the RTX 3090
Update #2 [12/04/2020] Custom PSU Cables and Vinyl Wrapping the SM580
 
Update #3 [12/21/2020] Meet The Components

Update #4 [03/18/2021] Retroactive Build Process Part 1 (RGB-ing the Noctuas)
 

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.

Hey, how is this build going? I was considering an RTX 3090 with this case and I would like to see a photo of the completed build.

Is there a reason my post on Dec 30th in this thread was removed? All I did was request my Silver Badge...

EDIT: JK I just realized I was given the Silver... Thanks!

your only options are to either
buy memory with no heatsinks
buy another MB
or take the heatsinks off the memory or at least one of them

Gigabyte have cards with 3 HDMIs but they're the high end models, so budget accordingly.
e.g. https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N2080AORUS-8GC#kf

Fun fact: passive DP to HDMI adapters are literally sending HDMI signal out of the DP port and the adapter is just to connect the right pins on the HDMI connector.
 
EDIT: there's also level shifting involved (3.3V -> 5V), but that's essentially passive (but does require a nominal amount of power).

No it's all a digital signal so no quality loss what so ever. The whole point of dp port is that it can be adapted to anything without quality loss.

I use a HDMI to DP converter for one of my screens. Works beautifully 

Arent Most GPUS switching to DP as a main as it works better for 144hz and up? I know of a lot of monitors/screens dont support over 60hz unless its DP or unless the monitor is specifically configured to have an HDMI port over 60hz

You can passively convert DisplayPort to HDMI with a cable.

Any gpu with dp ports work. Just get dp to hdmi adapters. It's the reason there are so many dp ports

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!

So like, 2ish years ago, I built an inside joke PC. Basically my best friend was like: Betcha cant slap a PC on a drying rack.
I did better.
 
Anyway, Ryzen test bench using spare parts I had laying around, and a plate rack for storing plates.
 
Ryzen 3 3100
2133mhz 8gb ram
500w psu
GTX 1050
Asus Prime B450M-A 
500gb Crucial P1
 
The original build was based on the AM3 socket and had 8gb of 1066mhz DDR3 and a GT 730. Id take this as an upgrade ngl. 
 
Pictured as well is the original build
 

question, did you sell your left kidney to get a 3090??

It was interesting. I was gaming on 60Hz displays for a while, when I did get a high refresh rate monitor recently the first time I used it I was underwhelmed. After hearing everyone say that once you try it, you can't go back, I was expecting it to be a black and white difference. Honestly I couldn't tell the difference. I guess I am just not as sensitive to refresh rate, since for example I do not notice fluorescent lights flickering unless it is a really bad one that is failing. Anyways after using high refresh rate for a few months, because why not I paid for it, one day I felt something off. I wasn't really sure what it was, but I was playing CoD and my shots were not landing. I checked my refresh rate and for some reason my monitor has reset to 60Hz. I changed it back and my shots were landing again, even though I visually couldn't tell the difference. So I guess I don't see the difference, but I do kind of feel it. 

Although I have a monitor that is capable of refresh rates higher than 144Hz, I do not play any games at 144+ FPS except maybe for minecraft once in a while, but I can tell you that even at 100Hz the gameplay is butter smooth.

what you will notice the most, how smooth when it's from 60.
for shooters etc, that is a demand.
So long the screen supports lower fps too (to things like g-sync/amd), and not become a visual mess or a lot of ghosting etc.

80-90 degrees Fahrenheit or do you mean Celsius? 90°F is only 32°C
 
If it's running at 90°C and throttling to 0.8GHz it sounds like it's thermal throttling. What CPU do you have? What cooler are you using? Check to make sure the cooler is mounted properly, the fan(s) are spinning, there's no dust clogged in the cooler, and if it's an AIO make sure the pump is running.

Not just you, getting the same thing here.

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?

It's Monday...
But I thought it was Saturday too - I haven't had a "no-school" day since Thanksgiving.

We're are aware and are working to mitigate the DDoS attack.