Let me elaborate lol, I am planning a build around the Wesena ITX2 case, which has 45mm of clearance between the motherboard and the ODD tray. If I remove the ODD tray, I can squeeze in another 25mm of space. The Big Shuriken, with its fan removed, is 46mm high. If I just used the case's side mount ...

Wondering if it has enough mass to cool a 3220 Ivy Bridge. Will have airflow provided by a side mount 40mm fan.

I paid $80 for the i3's LOL.

Building a HTPC and an office workstation on a budget (I've tried out the HD4000 in my Streacom build and it's fairly impressive). HTPC won't be used for games at all, purely playing back hi res and other video files plus some web browsing. Possibly playback from dvd/blu-ray but I'll have a dedicate...

MikeC wrote:Nice user review.

So where did you buy the case? Seems like North Am. distribution is extremely limited.

Mike, I bought it here: http://www.shop.perfecthometheater.com/ ... cstrfrnt04

Brendan

MattP wrote:Wow, that looks awesome! Is the actual case acting as a heat sink?

Yep!

Here are more pics: http://imageshack.us/a/img189/1523/r0026965.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img198/386/r0026963.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8021/r0026969.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img15/6650/r0026973f.jpg PicoPSU and the AC/DC converter. http://imageshack.us/a/img844/4272/r0026977.jpg Thiiiiii...

A teaser for now, haven't gone through all of my pictures yet. Case - Streacom FC5-OD Mobo - Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 (got a pretty good deal on it, needed the features over power savings) Proc - i3 3225 (mainly because of the HD4000 graphics) Ram - 8GB Samsung Low Voltage Storage - Intel 330 Series 12...

boost wrote:Nice build, very clean cabling!
Where did you get that slim slot-in optical bracket?
I've been searching for one for ages!

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.p ... 26&area=en

Yeah, dumb error on my part. I had it on Wireless Client/Repeater mode instead of WDS...dur.

Oops, forgot I started a topic here, got my AP working for a while now, so far so good, no shutdowns or anything, been on for "System Up Time: 18 Day, 18 hour:07 min:01 sec", so I think I'm good, haven't updated firmware yet, no need right now. Love the new range it provides though, personally, seem...

Beautiful build, big fan of this setup. I wish I could run without a discrete GPU as builds like this can stay so clean without them. Thanks, but a discrete GPU is coming soon. Planning on a 7770 or an equivalent workstation card, and replacing the stock sink with an Arctic Cooling S1 Plus. Will bu...

Hi, I just purchase a Cisco WAP4410N so hopefully I am in the right place. I don't know much about networking (other than basic stuff) and I've spent hours trying to get the access point setup to no avail. 1) Apparently, my Cisco modem likes to assign new IP addresses to things, so I didn't figure o...

Can I ask what the "30# test cable" is? It looks really neat, I'd quite like to do the same for supporting my graphics card. The little hooks look just perfect :). Here you go (Wal-Mart): http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9489/img1373tp.jpg And then there were two... http://img853.imageshack.us/im...

Try some emotiva Airmotiv 4's.

Just for the record, a higher education discount brings the U2412M to $268 from Dell Canada.

Close to a grand sadly. It'll be cheaper now, as I couldn't find 8GB DDR3 sticks back last year (and paid a premium) whereas now it's getting much more common.

Last upgrade for a while, the second bay cover.



Brendan

I paid $3 for 6 braided steel leaders (Wal Mart), I think that is a much better deal than $8.5 for one plus shipping TBH.

Ingenious if I may say so, 30# test cable (believe it or not, temps did go down as the weight of the cooler was pulling the sink away from the cores on top):





Brendan

Ingenious if I may say so, 30# test cable (believe it or not, temps did go down as the weight of the cooler was pulling the sink away from the cores on top):





Brendan

Just realized I should really plug up the rear hole before the adapter gets here. Air is coming in there and not through the actual heatsink, causing the bottom right corner of the sink to heat up more than the upper left.

I LOVE the Aleph 3's but $$$ and they don't pop up on the used market often, especially here in Canada. Unrelated, but just finished a new build for my uncle, I think I did a fairly good job. Yes, that heatsink is fanless, running at around 37 degrees. Been spoiled by modular PSU's :(, non modular P...

My uncle just got a full home theatre Maggie setup (MMG, MMGC, MC1). I'm content with the set of Dynaudio's in my living room as of right now, hifi costs a bunch.

Some more pictures: 32GB of ram! http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9400/cpuid2.png Had to strip one of the Vengeance sticks of its heatspreader in order to fit underneath the massive Ninja (an easy task really) http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1844/r00267052.jpg Installed some vent filters behind...

Hard to believe this was 4 years ago: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/multi-wa ... akers.html

Many things have changed, but the amp and the speakers stayed because they are that good.

Brendan

Simple mod for those pesky bright LEDs that leak light out of all the cracks in the case, some heatshrink covering the plastic light tubes:



Brendan

Ugh, 3 months of use:



Simple mod for those pesky bright LEDs that leak light out of all the cracks in the case, some heatshrink covering the plastic light tubes:



Brendan

Here's my A04 build: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=63878

I just use CoreTemp with the BIOS fan controller.