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  1. Quadriplegic

    ITX form factor sucks a sack of donkey balls, p…

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    http://www.cooltek.de/en/jonsbo/c-series/126/c2 12.10L mATX, is that close enough? Since when ITX boards have 4 RAM slots, or multiple PCIe x16 slots, or components of rather good quality? ITX boards are farm more restricting than needed. Want more memory? Buy new kit. Want to expand your storage? Buy big capacity, expensive drives. Want to have good cooling without having to go AIO route? You're shit out of luck. If you keep your build on the table with no height restrictions, the case can be 1 meter tall, it won't really matter. If you keep it in cupboard, then yes, every milimeter counts
  2. Quadriplegic

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    I mean, both arguments are pretty irrelevant. If you are building NAS, I imagine you want as much space inside as possible within external space restrictions. If you are building HTPC, chances are you will be able to sacrifice 10 cm of space in one of directions.
  3. Quadriplegic

    ITX form factor sucks a sack of donkey balls, p…

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    HTPC: Irrelevant again; Plenty of mATX cases that are compact enough to fit into surroundings. Cube-ish form factor cases won't take that much more space than ITX, as long as heigh fits, which it should: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/YLDzK8/silverstone-case-sstsg11b
  4. Quadriplegic

    ITX form factor sucks a sack of donkey balls, p…

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    Irrelevant; There are mATX cases that are just a bit bigger, but provide you with more slots for your drives, which I suppose is important? https://www.rosewill.com/product/rosewill-fbm-05-dual-fan-micro-atx-mini-tower-computer-case/
  5. Quadriplegic
    Quadriplegic

    ITX form factor sucks a sack of donkey balls, prove me wrong.

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    2. lewdicrous

      lewdicrous

      Every form factor has it's pros and cons with their own purposes. 

      It's okay to favor one over the other, but disregarding the ones you don't like as pointless and irrelevant isn't a reasonable thing to do, imo. 

    3. Quadriplegic

      Quadriplegic

      But I am still yet to see a reasonable argument for ITX form factor.

    4. Windows7ge

      Windows7ge

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      There are mATX cases that are just a bit bigger, but provide you with more slots for your drives, which I suppose is important?

      That's a pretty piss poor example of more slots for drives. The LIAN LI PC-Q26 was a Mini-ITX case that could hold 10 hard drives.

       

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      But what if you need another 16GB 2 years later due to crappy Windows? You have to get rid of your existing 16GB kit and buy a new 32GB kit. If your motherboard had 4 slots, you could simly get another 16GB kit.

      If you look into the pro-sumer server market you could buy the ASRock Rack C2750D4I or it's little brother the 2550. They use a BGA Avoton 8 & 4 core CPU respectively and each come with 12 sata ports and 4 DIMM slots. It's a great little board for a OP NAS.

       

      There are also socketed Mini-ITX boards that support denser memory or even use SO-DIMM modules. If you have 16GB and need more but you occupied all your slots already then that's just poor planning on your part.

  6. Quadriplegic
    Then stop messing around with nonsense like ITX and build mATX system if space is really that much of an issue. When you build ITX, you: 1. Overpay for the case. 2. Overpay for the motherboard. 3. Overpay for the power suppply. 4. Run into size restrictions. 5. Run into thermal throttling. And this is one of reasons why ITX builds tend to be rubbish.
  7. Quadriplegic
    Engineering sample
  8. Quadriplegic
    Uh, the title does not match the contents of your topic o.o Depends on your budget, location, what resolution/refresh rate you want
  9. Quadriplegic
    No, scrap the plans. CPU will throttle like there is no tomorrow, 2070 is bad buy in general and single memory stick makes little sense
  10. Quadriplegic
    Why, Fractal, why? I understand no sound dampening on front and top panels... But the regular side panel? Why skip out on dampening there? It won't hurt airflow at all, yet still might help (even if a little bit) with noise of hard drives
  11. Quadriplegic
    You have literally zero idea what makes PSU good or bad. The only reason why I got TX550m is because it was on sale (€57). There are many better PSUs with gold efficiency rating. Yes, they have the responsibility to stick to EFFICIENCY numbers. But EFFICIENCY does not equal QUALITY.
  12. Quadriplegic
    Those are just recommendations. Companies don't know what kind of components you have, so they tend to overestimate by a bit. Sapphire recommends 750W PSU for Vega 56, but I have no issues powering my system with 550W. Since Formula Gold 450W has 2xVGA 6+2 pins, that is enough What's the price of non-modular Pure Power 11 500W at your local stores?
  13. Quadriplegic
    80 Plus test type[4] 115 V internal non-redundant 230 V internal redundant 230 V EU internal non-redundant Percentage of rated load 10% 20% 50% 100% 10% 20% 50% 100% 10% 20% 50% 100% 80 Plus Platinum 90% 92% 89% 90% 94% 91% 92% 94% 90% Where is the responsibility?
  14. Quadriplegic
    It damn is. Really tempted to replace my Meshify C with Meshify S2
  15. Quadriplegic
    Isn't it just S2 with front mesh panel? If airflow is as good as on the Meshify C, we have the new king of cases, albeit probably bit expensive one. The metal side panel should have some sort of noise insulation, right?
  16. Quadriplegic
    Formula 450W is best choice out of these 3, but where do you live and what is your budget?
  17. Quadriplegic
    https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-BWG750M&c=CJ&cjevent=8160b82d1f9c11e98016001f0a18050b Multirail (unlike Focus+ or RMx), not very loud (unlike G3) Or Straight Power 11: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA68V6SK3463&Description=be quiet straight power 11&cm_re=be_quiet_straight_power_11-_-9SIA68V6SK3463-_-Product
  18. Quadriplegic
    "CS 1.6 Surf game mode and COD had a baby" Or just simply "The Edge"
  19. Quadriplegic
    Yet obviously worse than Sandy Bridge CPUs, which are even older.
  20. Quadriplegic
    It's in my signature o.o Overclocked 1600x (voltage around 1.35V) , undervolted/overclocked Vega 56, basic stuff like few fans, hdd, sdd and so on
  21. Quadriplegic
    Odyssey is definitely a CPU demanding title. Sure, CS:GO is CPU demanding title too, but we are talking about game engine from ~2006, running at over 200 FPS.
  22. Quadriplegic
    Measure the temperature of card while playing with Wattman. https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1493084304 Fans won't be spinning under 60C
  23. Quadriplegic
    The chances of CPU overheating are higher
  24. Quadriplegic
    In theory, yes, but I am suspicious of that cooler and PSU. If I were you, I wouldn't overclock and just start saving for more modern platform.
  25. Quadriplegic
    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $359.99 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Deepcool - LUCIFER V2 81.33 CFM CPU Cooler $40.22 @ Newegg Motherboard ASRock - Z370 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $113.98 @ Newegg Memory GeIL - EVO SPEAR 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $95.98 @ Newegg Business Storage Kingston - A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $22.99 @ Amazon Storage Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $59.89 @ OutletPC Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card $369.99 @ Amazon Case Aerocool - Aero-1000 ATX Mid Tower Case $61.59 @ Newegg Business Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $59.87 @ OutletPC Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1214.50 Mail-in rebates -$30.00 Total $1184.50 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-01-22 04:06 EST-0500 1080p 144Hz build
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