My Hadron Build

[Gumba]

So it took about a week to get all the parts, just finished installing the dvd drive today. With the stock i5 cooler the system ran about 10 degrees hotter under ambient conditions and almost 20C under load. Running 4.2GHz at 1.2V now with low 30C ambient and 70C under Prime95. Overclocked the GTX 670 100mHz clock and 200MHz on the memory. Luckily enough I was able to undervolt the card down to .9375V which really helped lower the GPU temps. Never hitting above 70C under load. Ran Metro Last Light for a few hours and it holds up great. The PSU fan is the loudest fan in the setup and under load it is loud. I knew I would have to compromise somewhere, nonetheless wished it was quieter. All in all I am very pleased. Jumping up from Ivy Bridge there is a noticeable difference in performance when I ran Lara Croft. Metro looks amazing in 1080, all settings are set to Ultra with exception to AA, was only able to run 3xAA as my card kept crashing, most likely due to memory limits. Haven't gotten around to testing FPS with Fraps, but did run the Valley Benchmark and scored a 2844 at 68.0 FPS at 1080 High 4xAA. Thats about it, thanks for checking out the thread and take a look at a few of my pics.

CPU Intel Core i5-4670K

CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U9B SE2

Motherboard ASRock Z87E-ITX Mini ITX

Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600

Storage Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" SSD Toshiba 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM

Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB

Case EVGA Hadron Mini ITX Tower w/500W Power Supply

Case Fans 2x Noctua NF-S12B

Optical Drive EVGA Slot Load DVD

OS Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

[KieranThePCGuy]

Looks great! Do love the Hadron case, would like to work with one.

[ilikemacandpc]

Great build. If only the hadron had better cable management....

[Common_Courtesy]

Great build. If only the hadron had better cable management....

That's the one thing that puts me off that case, you would have thought they would at least give the cables some nice sleeving if they are going to be that visible.

[skullbringer]

very cool, great looking build.