Okay, I've installed the four additional heat pipes on the Nvidia Quadro 620. With a TDP of 41 W, only four pipes are needed for this video card. Thanks again to Larry Liu at HDPlex for providing a custom heatsink solution. It runs cool and quiet,typically 40° C. You can see an image here: https://w...

Hi Eric, Nice post, got inspired and am considering to do something similar!! Was many years since I build something last time, so a few somewhat silly questions: 1) What should I be looking for a find a GPU to fit the heat pipes? 2) Considering your post, I was considering to hold off the purchase...

I also recommend improving the cooling of the PCH/chipset area before you mount the motherboard into the chassis. Once it is mounted, and you have applied the heat pipes, you will not have access to the bottom of the motherboard anymore.

I also chose the 2nd gen. HD-Plex H5 case for my Skylake i6700T and Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI mobo. Unfortunately, in spite of strictly following the installation guide, I managed to bend 2 pins of the motherboard's 1151 socket. I'm sure that didn't overtighten the 4 screws. I heard about MSI is devel...

I received the custom PCI extender from orbit micro, and it works fine, and allows me to install video card in the correct position. Here's a photo of the current status: https://www.flickr.com/photos/e-ganz/23717134533/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/ I'm now able to run with multipliers of 47x, 45x,...

I've started to do some modest overclocking, tuning and benchmarks. Using a solid 160 W power supply I'm able to apply 46X, 44, 42, 41 to the CPU timing with 100 MHz base clock. so with one processor we are running up to 4.6 GHz. tuning.png The Passmark benchmark reads up about 4500 depending on con...

Okay, here are some more photos. This shows a temporary set up with the video card in the central location. This would be desirable if you're not using heat pipes for the video card. https://www.flickr.com/photos/e-ganz/23929336051/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/ Here as a further step forward with t...

Any more pics of the build? I'd really like to build one of these for my living room setup. The only thing that puts me off, is no optical drive. Vincent, I will post more pictures as I continue. There is certainly the capability for an optical drive and mounting equipment is included for that or a...

speedfan reports that the SSD temperature is roughly 50° C.

Okay, I started to do some thermal testing using six threads of prime 95 in the blended mode. This produces about 70 W of thermal load. I have now installed my Nvidia Quadro 620 video card. Above 60 W load, the stock system with no fans is limited by the PCH getting too hot (more than 80° C) if ther...

These cases are now available.

I describe my build here:

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Great case!

okay, I can report that this new SSD is compatible with my motherboard etc. As I reported above, Windows 10 installed smoothly with no problems. Furthermore, by installing the Samsung NVME driver, and ensuring that write caching is turned on (the default setting) then I'm getting full speed performa...

I'm not yet ready to do full power testing, but at idle, the CPU cores are typically around 25° C. as I have been installing programs and running typical applications, the CPU cores typically run between 25 and 30° C, and occasionally all the way up to 53° C. This is with a power load occasionally u...

The system is mostly finished. It is cool and efficient under normal conditions. I pre-ordered the case, and therefore one of the first in the world to build it. I did need to use the install disk for the motherboard right after installing Windows 10. Note that some add-in cards will require PCIE ex...

The dimensions of the case are a relatively small 4.5" h x 16.9" w x13.9" deep. This is larger than my previous mini-ITX build, but still small enough to fit on the desktop. It looks like an audio amplifier with big heatsinks. More details can be found on the HD Plex website: http://www.hd-plex.com/...

Another appealing element of this case is the fact that the adapter for the heatpipes is solid copper. by the way, I'm aware that my chosen video card is not completely compatible with the Existing graphics heat pipe solution. I will need to modify it to fit. Most people would choose specific GeForc...

We are all looking for a machine that is fast, good-looking, and quiet. Therefore, it is exciting that the HDPlex H5 second-generation chassis has arrived. box1-1-2.jpg This case has 8 heatpipes and large external heatsinks which allow for quiet passive cooling of up to a 95W TDP CPU. Another unusua...

This was mentioned above, but bears repeating.

The Noctua fans (among others) at low speeds are incredibly quiet.

I'm using the Pico PSU 120 W from Streacom. It runs cool. I'm not using much power with my onchip graphics etc. I followed the instructions, and only put small amounts of heatsink compound between the heat pipe and the outer heatsink, and on the lower part of the heat pipe to aluminum piece. My CPU ...

Pictures here:

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I wanted a fast desktop machine for general-purpose use, dictation with Dragon, and image processing with Lightroom. Of course I also wanted a small, nice-looking, and very quiet machine. For Dragon, it Is desirable to have a core i7 machine with 8 MB of cache, so this is the Intel core i7 - 3770. I...