Reasonable HEDT smolboye

[Zando_]

Built an actually reasonable rig over the weekend. Was originally going to stuff an X58 micro, 6c/12t Xeon, and SLI 780s in my Meshify C Mini, but turns out my 1600W T2 (only PSU I own with the Amp rating on the 12V rail I need to drive two 780s) can't quiiiiite fit and seeing as it's a brand new case, I didn't really want to chop out the bottom of it to fit a stupidly large PSU in there. T2 is slightly larger than the PSUs it's supposed to fit, G3 for scale (geez that pic is blurry, anyone wanna donate non-shaky hands?:

 

So instead I went with this much more reasonable hardware combo:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Xkz4n7

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3 GHz 6-Core Processor   
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L12S 55.44 CFM CPU Cooler   
Motherboard: EVGA Micro 2 Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard   
Memory: EVGA SSC 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR4-2800 Memory   
Storage: Kingston HyperX Fury 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive   
Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive   
Storage: Seagate FireCuda 2 TB 2.5" 5400RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive   
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive   
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda Pro Compute 1 TB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive   
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB XC ULTRA GAMING Video Card   
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case   
Power Supply: Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply   
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-13 11:21 EST-0500

 

Baby i7:

 

960 Evo, in a full PCIe 3.0 x4 slot too. My X99 Classy only has a 2x

 

Test fitting:

 

Cooler clearance is uh, it's there:

 

Cable managed before work:

And finished last night when I got home, dug out 3 more SATA cables and my flush cutters to clean up the zip ties:

Currently running 4.2Ghz at 1.2v, max temps are 76-77C after an overnight run of Realbench and some Destiny 2. Pushes a solid 75fps in Destiny 2 (have it locked via v-sync) which is just what I need. Haven't had any other issues either, all seems to be smooth sailing. Currently planning to run this instead of my big rig for the time being. It's quieter, eats less power, and I really need to upgrade and rebuild my big lad anyways (waiting on the budget for that, will be a while). Also much, much smaller footprint than the Enthoo Evolv that rig is in. 

[Fasauceome]

8/10

very reasonable

could be moar smol

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

8/10

very reasonable

could be moar smol

Get me a reasonably priced ITX X99 board and I'll get right on moar-smol-ifying

[Fasauceome]

13 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Get me a reasonably priced ITX X99 board and I'll get right on moar-smol-ifying

now I haven't tried this myself but...

 

a circular saw and a micro atx board has to make something

[Mbowen]

I'm a bit of a SFF guy and I don't see how this is SMOL at all? Am I missing something?

Looks nice though.

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Mbowen said:

I'm a bit of a SFF guy and I don't see how this is SMOL at all? Am I missing something?

Different perspective. Compared to my HPTX, XL-ATX, and EATX mobos, mATX is smol. Compared to the Evolv ATX TG my main rig is in (plan to move to a full tower Enthoo 719 once I have the budget), the Air 540 I'm building another rig in this weekend (EATX X58 mobo, SLI 780s, 1600W T2), and the Define S I run stuff in sometimes, the Meshify C Mini is smol. 

 

Basically I come from big ole PCs lol, the Meshify C Mini is quite compact from my point of view. As far as actual smol stuff goes, tiniest I've done is a 2200G rig in an InWin Chopin. I keep wanting to do an actually tiny rig but like... HEDT mITX mobos are hard to come by (there's two, both ASRock, one for X299 and one for X99) and the CPUs are difficult to cool in tiny spaces. @Damascus manages to do it though, I forget how smol his case is but it's pretty tiny. Especially for the hardware (6950X on an X99-E ITX is the plan IIRC?). 

5 minutes ago, Mbowen said:

Looks nice though.

Thancc 

[Mbowen]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

HEDT mITX mobos are hard to come by (there's two, both ASRock, one for X299 and one for X99) and the CPUs are difficult to cool in tiny spaces. @Damascus manages to do it though, I forget how smol his case is but it's pretty tiny. Especially for the hardware (6950X on an X99-E ITX is the plan IIRC?). 

Thancc 

There are actually 4. I have the same setup I believe (6950x and x99e-ITXac + custom bios). Asrock actually makes all of them. Each generation of X series board has had a "server grade" board released with it. Like you said before, they are somewhat hard to find. I for one have never been able to find a second hand ITX server board. But, because of the Ryzen 9 chips, lots of people are selling their x99e-ITX boards right now. 

When I bought mine, maybe 1-2 would be listed for sale in 2 months. I believe there are 5-6 on sale on ebay right now though if you wanted to try to downsize further.  

[Zando_]

Just now, Mbowen said:

There are actually 4. I have the same setup I believe (6950x and x99e-ITXac + custom bios). 

1 minute ago, Mbowen said:

Asrock actually makes all of them. Each generation of X series board has had a "server grade" board released with it. Like you said before, they are somewhat hard to find. I for one have never been able to find a second hand ITX server board. But, because of the Ryzen 9 chips, lots of people are selling their x99e-ITX boards right now.   

Oooooo I never even looked for server boards, lol. And yee, hopefully that and the Cascade Lake-X stuff will knock down the price of the 6950X as well. 

1 minute ago, Mbowen said:

When I bought mine, maybe 1-2 would be listed for sale in 2 months. I believe there are 5-6 on sale on ebay right now though if you wanted to try to downsize further.  

Wouldn't have the budget rn tbh, but I may get a christmas bonus soon-ish so hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Mbowen]

8 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

HEDT mITX mobos are hard to come by (there's two, both ASRock, one for X299 and one for X99) and the CPUs are difficult to cool in tiny spaces. @Damascus manages to do it though, I forget how smol his case is but it's pretty tiny. Especially for the hardware (6950X on an X99-E ITX is the plan IIRC?). 

Thancc 

Actually, funny thing right now. @Damascus and I are in the middle of a trade from hell. (swapping my mobo+CPU for his Mobo+CPU+Monoblock) 
("From hell" Shipping errors/Customs problems. Not an issue with him or anything, cool dude really)

I accidentally ran into this guy on r/Hardwareswap and SmallFormfactor.net and somehow I run into him mentioned again here. Hilarious. 

[For Science!]

dat clearance between the heat pipe and gpu pcb is making my zero tolerance nerves tingle!

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, For Science! said:

dat clearance between the heat pipe and gpu pcb is making my zero tolerance nerves tingle!

I cooooooooould use one of my other Noctuas (I have a pair of NH-U9DXi4s) but if I get my SR-2 running I'll need those, and the only other bigboye cooler I have is an NH-D15S. That blocks the top PCIe slot on both my EVGA X99 boards, and I can't rotate it 90 degrees because of the RAM slots, so this is the best I had (and it's in that specific orientation due to RAM slots on the sides and the VRM heatsink at the top). I guess I have a Gammax 400 somewhere, but MuH NoCtUaS.

[Damascus]

7 hours ago, Mbowen said:

Actually, funny thing right now. @Damascus and I are in the middle of a trade from hell. (swapping my mobo+CPU for his Mobo+CPU+Monoblock) 
("From hell" Shipping errors/Customs problems. Not an issue with him or anything, cool dude really)

I accidentally ran into this guy on r/Hardwareswap and SmallFormfactor.net and somehow I run into him mentioned again here. Hilarious. 

Gaahhhh it's been terrible.  Although, @Zando Bob would probably appreciate the build you're making.  It uses a 2x80mm rad, right?  Custom loop kings of smol lol

[Zando_]

6 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Gaahhhh it's been terrible.  Although, @Zando Bob would probably appreciate the build you're making.  It uses a 2x80mm rad, right?  Custom loop kings of smol lol

^^^ yos please share. I've been thinking more about mITX (though I do lose quad channel RAM, oof), main issue is how to cool the CPU without needing to go for a larger case.

[Mbowen]

On 11/14/2019 at 11:01 PM, Zando Bob said:

^^^ yos please share. I've been thinking more about mITX (though I do lose quad channel RAM, oof), main issue is how to cool the CPU without needing to go for a larger case.

You only sometimes lose quad channel

I didn't realize I told you about that build @Damascus, guess I might be able to find a pic. I'll tell you, the 2x80mm rad could actually cool the 6950x pretty well at stock. Truethfully I almost never do OC or burn-in tests so I can't say much more. But, the build was basically a slightly modified GEEEK a30 where I lengthened the 4 horizontal bars maybe 10-20mm so I could fit int the radiator and some fans. Never got the custom cables done before a different case caught my eye. 




The GEEEK cases look ok, but T-slot is kind of a pain in the ass to work with and when the case heats up and cools down the screws often loosened for me  

Went to a Ghost S1 I immediately botched the paint job on. Laser saved me some sanding last night. LOOK AT THE SOOT 0_0