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Thanks everyone. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look, but so far it seems to run good. That's the most important thing. Thanks again.
Thanks everyone. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to look, but so far it seems to run good. That's the most important thing. Thanks again.
Steve that cooler I saw somewhere this morning is that a Deepcool Frostwin or the Deepcool Assasin and I cannot find a height for the Assassin and I'd like to know how much clearance there is as the Arctics I fitted to the Sandy Bridge were a very tight fit and I don't want to end up getting the wrong thing .
Also I am trying out the G.Skill Ares F3-2133C11Q-16GAO 16GB are these going to fit with that cooler do you reckon?
I'm using a hec 7K09BBA case as my HTPC, and it looks fairly nice, except cable management is horrible. The PSU cables just directly into the hard drive bays, which although there is room for three bays there's only mounting points for two. I had the SSD out because I was hoping to velcro it underneath the optical drive and fit a second HDD underneath the other HDD, which was where the SSD was originally. Unfortunately it bumps up against the motherboard. (ended up taking out the card reader, but I wasn't using it anyways). I just don't understand why the sata power cables have to bee so long, and i had to use a couple molex to sata cables, which didn't help. Fortunately airflow isn't completely impeded, so it runs fine.
Any of YOUR systems nasty on the inside?
(PS: that one red cable goes over the bar because I had to burn something. I'm one sata cable short, so I had the disk drive unplugged until the new cables come in.
Sure, the Ares fit with most any cooler. The picture in my HAF XM case is a Noctua NH-D14. I believe it is 163mm tall and just about as wide. If it will fit, I'm sure most anything will. Cooler Master says it will support a CPU cooler up to 196mm.
Overall Dimension (Without Fan)
140X128X158mm
Overall Dimension (With Fan)
144X154X160mm
Net Weight
1378g (With Fan)
Specifications, ASSASSIN - CPU COOLER, GAMER STORM
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FuturDreamz - Thats a very nice low profile chassis, it looks like a dvd player. Looks great!
Steve, I didn't even notice the new picsIt looks great, congrats!
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Thanks. Despite it's flaws it is a pretty nice case. I just wished they had a couple more hard drive mounts below the other drives.
I'm planning to eventually build a new HTPC, but I haven't really found any other style of case I like (unobtrusive looking, no flaps, slot for optical drive, flat but wide and not too deep).
Loving the rig Steve, looks completely flush.What are you temps like?
Now, I have a question of my own that I'd rather ask here than make a separate thread for: how much would any of you sell two 6950's for knowing one of them (the Sapphire in my case) is the newer of the two and was purchased only about a month or two ago, perhaps three?
I also have a 4870 to throw in the mix.