Show Us Your Rig [6]

Alsisgevat, Where have you been friend? we have missed you around here. I hope you plan on hanging around for a while. Great seeing you.

essenbe said:

Nice case, Alan. If you could live with 3 hard drive cages, I think you could get a 240 mm rad in there. A couple of SSDs to go along with the drives should work good. You can put an SSD almost anywhere. Looks like a fun build.

I have a Coolermaster 240 sealed if by chance I can squeeze it in but my research has led me to think that to get a 240 in the top or the front then everything has to come out and maybe that will be round two when and if I go full water on the mobo and gpu.

Thanks guys for all the comments, I just wanted to try a powerful mini.....it just sounded like a blast.

essenbe said:

Alsisgevat, Where have you been friend? we have missed you around here. I hope you plan on hanging around for a while. Great seeing you.

Ditto that !

Britton30 said:

A fine bunch of parts Alan. Maybe the Team RAM will be great, the only other 2400 with a CL of 10 I saw was G.Skill Trident X, which I have. :)

I wanted the GSkill Tridents but in the end the savings were just too big and the reports on these modules too strong to ignore. It was no contest comparing them to Corsair cost to performance.

linnemeyerhere said:

essenbe said:

Nice case, Alan. If you could live with 3 hard drive cages, I think you could get a 240 mm rad in there. A couple of SSDs to go along with the drives should work good. You can put an SSD almost anywhere. Looks like a fun build.

I have a Coolermaster 240 sealed if by chance I can squeeze it in but my research has led me to think that to get a 240 in the top or the front then everything has to come out and maybe that will be round two when and if I go full water on the mobo and gpu.

Thanks guys for all the comments, I just wanted to try a powerful mini.....it just sounded like a blast.

Alan, I may be wrong, I'm sure you have read about them more than me. But, I thought they said remove the top hard drive bay (which I think is 3 bays, leaving 3 ) you can fit a 240 in the top. But you are right, to fit one in the front you would have to remove all of them.

I had just thought wiyh 3 2TB drives and a couple of SSDs and some velcro, you would be in good shape. That's basically what I'm doing with my full tower. I removed the bottom 3 drive bays to put a 360 in the bottom. That leaves me 3 bays in the top for hard drives. And, of course, I won't be without my SSDs,, even if I have to duct tape them somewhere.

Joey, slumming on the forum?

A Guy

essenbe said:

Jack, I think it is this case, they come in a lot of colors, but I think this is what he was going to usw.
BitFenix Prodigy Midnight Black / Black Steel / Plastic Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case - Newegg.com

Thanks. When I used the hyper link in Alan's post all I got was a page full of head phones for sale.

essenbe said:

linnemeyerhere said:

essenbe said:

Nice case, Alan. If you could live with 3 hard drive cages, I think you could get a 240 mm rad in there. A couple of SSDs to go along with the drives should work good. You can put an SSD almost anywhere. Looks like a fun build.

I have a Coolermaster 240 sealed if by chance I can squeeze it in but my research has led me to think that to get a 240 in the top or the front then everything has to come out and maybe that will be round two when and if I go full water on the mobo and gpu.

Thanks guys for all the comments, I just wanted to try a powerful mini.....it just sounded like a blast.

Alan, I may be wrong, I'm sure you have read about them more than me. But, I thought they said remove the top hard drive bay (which I think is 3 bays, leaving 3 ) you can fit a 240 in the top. But you are right, to fit one in the front you would have to remove all of them.

I had just thought wiyh 3 2TB drives and a couple of SSDs and some velcro, you would be in good shape. That's basically what I'm doing with my full tower. I removed the bottom 3 drive bays to put a 360 in the bottom. That leaves me 3 bays in the top for hard drives. And, of course, I won't be without my SSDs,, even if I have to duct tape them somewhere.

Well from what I can see but haven't confirmed as the case is still in it's taped box but the optical drive must come out to give access for a 240 rad in the top. Then if you go front mounted then at least both drive cages must come out. I'm going with a standard graphics card and was planning on pulling the upper drive cage for it but wanted to leave the lower for placing two spinners and then lots of hidden options for the SSD's.

That sounds reasonble to me, Alan.

Jack, that was one of those add pages, at the bottom it has a link "Continue to Bitfinix"