Now that you mentioned it. Yes the ROG Maximus impact may not handle 5.1. Sorry, my bad. BTW, what is the difference between the Hero and the Gene. Both are ROG boards. I tried the comparison at Asus's website. I can put stuff to compared, but there is no compare button. Now that I think about it, I...

As i said before, the TJ08-E has a fan controller, well its just two speeds, high (1200rpm) and low (900rpm), test it and see how it goes, i personally didnt like how loud it was, but its understandable with the amount of air the 180mm fan moves, even undervolted moves a decent amount. In case you ...

GTX 760 reviews Thank you for that reply. I've narrowed my choices to the MSI/Gigabyte 760. As for 770, the MSI 770 for now. The TJ08-E itself its not noisy, and even the stock config its not that its noisy but loud, the frontal 180mm fan moves a ton of air at 1200rpm but its very loud, the case ha...

Im going to start with the case as i feel this will change a lot of choices below, I think two best cooling cases for a small factor are Silverstone TJ08-E and Bitfinix Prodigy, even though the Prodigy is mini ITX its similar to TJ08-E in overall dimensions, maybe a little smaller but not by much a...

Hi and welcome to SPCR. There are others on the board that are into mini-ITX builds. So, I'll leave the case recommendations to them. :) CPU: In general, you might want to wait until ~September for your Haswell build. The currently released chipset has a bug in the USB3 controller, where devices so...

Hi, Need help on selecting parts for the mini-itx build which has to double as a work pc, gaming pc, steambox pc (will be hooked to 1080p monitor) and low TDP/temp as my ambient year temperature is between 26-34C (Malaysia). It also has to be a small pc, if not will look out of place next to the TV....