There are many great options around $110-120 (@Northern Europe), if I were to pay that much I might choose EVGA G3 550W or Seasonic G550 . However while I'm willing to pay for top tier (ish) quality (reliability, stability), I don't need the best efficiency or fully modular cables, and feel that suc...

Back with report: Went with Seasonic G360 and it has been running for a few days now. DVI signal has been stable since, and there are no more problems related to sleep mode or unwanted wake up - it works as expected. Asus automatic overclocking is still black magic and sometimes says "Overclocking f...

Thanks, then I'll go for the Seasonic. It says in the review here that it has multiple ATX12V that combine into an EPS12V, too, so that's great.

I built a new Skylake rig for a family member, initially reusing an old case with a 6 years old, crappy PSU: LiteOn PS-5221-06, 220W, TFX. I would like to replace this PSU and am considering a few different options. First, there are currently some issues: with sleep states, such as spontaneous boot ...

This is all very Interesting. The Carbide Air 240 was pretty hyped a while back and reviews seem very positive. But maybe it would be better suited for a dual-GPU-overclocked-i7 kind of setup, than what I'm going for... Next suggestion : Thermaltake Core V1 . Replace huge fan with quieter (?) Noctua...

... cooling wise that Carbide 240 would seem rather mediocre. It might not be ideal, but with 7 (!) slots for 120mm fans and no PSU or disk cage blocking that airflow, it already has more potential than most. It is very open indeed, I just haven't seen a mITX case that does this better. That TT wou...

Of all the cases mentioned so far, the best candidate for this would be the Corsair Carbide Air 240. It is a high airflow case which partly explains its larger size. Used with a Asus STRIX it would delay the point at which the fans triggered. And if the fans did start to run it would help to keep t...

TJ08-E PS07 Aquila Core V1 The Carbide Air 240 doesn't look so attractive anymore. :P But if that's a bit too large - which I do agree with - then the same goes for TJ08-E, PS07 and the Aquila. Something smaller would be nice. Somewhere around 20 liters - smaller than most of the mentioned cases, b...

I would pick the TJ08-E for a quiet system. This case looks interesting. I'll have to check if the 180mm fan is quiet enough and replaceable. Also I think they top exhaust for the PSU is weird and I wish it came without 5.25" drive slots. But I'll consider this one, you're right that the Carbide Ai...

What's the reason behind the choice of the Carbide 240? It's sort of small but should provide better airflow than most small cases (5x 120mm slots + dual-chamber design), while also being quite cheap. My own Coolcube eventually required making a hole and adding an external fan, so I thought I'd go ...

I am helping a friend choose components for a small gaming system. It should be quiet enough not to disturb people sleeping in the same room, even while gaming. This friend is not very demanding but does play many different games (Steam, new titles etc) and doesn't like buying new computers too ofte...

If anyone has a link to a guide explaining all of this, that would be awesome. I don't think there's ever been a lot of info on undervolting, and it's even less with Haswell. If you find such a guide, please share it here. My interest over the years has been getting the best of both worlds between ...

Useful or not, I can say that the Asus Z97I supports undervolting, without a lower limit as far as I can tell. There is auto, manual, adaptive and offset mode. It is more complicated since both the CPU and stuff on the motherboards adjust voltages automatically. Hard to predict how these things will...

I finally decided to cut a 120mm hole in the top plate. Sure it would "spoil" the pretty case, but who needs a pretty case that can't be cooled? Let's see how it went. Previously my CPU cores peaked at 82-83 deg C when maxing both CPU and integrated graphics for 30+ minutes. Take 1 : Take the thin 1...

Hi gaidal, how are you getting on with reducing temperatures? Hey, thanks for checking in with me... :-) I guess I've been a bit meh about it since it's just about good enough, and it's not obvious how to improve it... I installed a Noctua redux 120mm at the bottom, which pushes lots of air and har...

Try to go with a similar speced fan on the PSU ... I'll stick with this one, I think the CFM wasn't that much lower and several people have had it for a year without problems. I didn't know that it doubled as a crucial exhaust fan for the case, but hopefully I can solve that. At least it's really q...

I modded the PSU with the quiet fan, and noise-wise it's a big improvement - however instead of getting warm the case now gets so hot that it's uncomfortable to touch, not far from burning my hand... Yes, really. :o I didn't expect that only a CPU could cause this much heat! I think the PSU itself i...

Oh yeah - does the Asus Z97I allow for undervolting? Maybe you could show a screenshot of the UEFI with a negative core voltage offset :D Yeah I've been hoping to stumble on a Z97 underclocking guide somewhere... because that BIOS has SO many things to tweak! I think I can set the maximum multiplie...

I don't think the PSU is that bad, and the Shuriken 2 seems pretty capable without being a tower... :-) But since I'm about to change the PSU placement fan to one with less airflow and the air coming out is already sort of warm... I should probably do something to improve it. Maybe I could fasten th...

... If I continuously max all cores on my 4690K I reach 60°C and 1200 RPM after a while. ... Thanks for the experience sharing, that's good to know. ... After doing this for an hour it's more like 65°C (at 1400 RPM). Just to leave honest data in the forum. :-) I think I'll start out with no extra c...

Good idea! This is not a good time for donations for me but I'll at least pledge $15 so more people can know about this nice case... While waiting I'll try to answer any questions potential buyers might have, about the V3. * Fingerprints are very obvious on the black model, under direct light. I nor...

I guess that to receive some thumbs you should find a way to keep your cabling a tad more neat and tidy . :P Good call, that'll be the next step after modding the PSU. Will see if I can find some on DealeXtreme or eBay. The ATX, CPU and front USB-cables are rather stiff though, I wonder if I can re...

Not getting a lot of feedback or thumbs up... :P But I will add some update in case someone comes here for info later. Scythe Shuriken 2 : very satisfied! It's quiet and looks great. I didn't expect such a big improvement over the stock fan since my PSU is louder anyway, but somehow the system is al...

If you're interested there's a thread for my build which is sort of similar to yours, although I have a smaller case and didn't install a graphics card yet. Just upgraded the stock cooler to a Scythe Shuriken 2 rev. B and am very satisfied with this one so far - huge improvement. EDIT: Just having f...

Finally a passive 750 Ti is on its way!

The article is in Swedish, it says the card will be about €20 more and looks like it will occupy 3 slots. Memory will be underclocked a bit to 5.0 GHz.

Definitely the only SFX relatively quiet unit is (IMHO) the semi-fanless Silverstone 300W unit, mainly when used with loads up to about 120W DC. Quiet up to 120W sounds perfect. I really should've bought that one instead...! Anyway I've ordered the NoiseBlocker for my ST45SF-G, will update when I'v...

Out of interest, what are good SFX PSUs? ... There are surprisingly few. I read a thread where people requested one from SeaSonic, and a SilverStone representative showed up and felt hurt that people weren't satisfied with their SFX series after all the work they had put into making them. :lol: For...

That was a silly move, why did you do it without asking any advice about (as you did for all the other parts)? ... Yes that was a big mistake, costing me almost $70 more with the NoiseBlocker fan included. :( Would've gone a long way towards a 500 GB SSD instead of 250 GB. I guess since I had been ...

...An annoying thing is that almost every time I reset, the CPU FAN doesn't spin up quickly enough, and the BIOS pauses with a "CPU FAN error - press F1 blah blah". Maybe I can fix this by tweaking... In the BIOS Monitor menu there is a CPU Fan Speed Low Limit setting, changing this to Ignore will ...

I received the last parts yesterday and assembled them. I'll probably write some kind of review later with pictures, but thought I'd share my initial impression. Background : I didn't get a graphics card yet, as the Intel HD4600 works great for my gaming needs right now. I'll wait for Maxwell 20 nm ...