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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-z9PidYH4E
That is some DIY PC skills on show there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-z9PidYH4E
Corky34 (05-04-2018)
Very impressive!But crikey that thing is ugly.
He's just a little bit too enthusiastic and proud of himself and I'm finding him really off-putting as a result
It looks like a fancy coffee maker. Does it do a decent espresso?
The motherboard will get a lot less airflow than he expects, especially with all those cables - making a full cover block for the GPU was a neat trick (even though he used too much thermal paste, and probably could have just soldered most of the connections), he should have got out the copper sheet to replace the motherboard heatsinks
Anyone remember this bloke ? These are much nicer...
http://slipperyskip.com/page23.html
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
Some serious skills on display. I have enough trouble ensuring a build with standard components, let alone trying to do anything like this. I do like the look of something with those massive heatsinks on disply though.
I just don't get these ugly retro designs(no offence whatever floats your boat). I've seen quite a few custom specials. I remember one with a concrete case to absorb sound and vibration, or one that was designed around maximum cooling. But other than practical concerns, I prefer high tech cases. Practical and aesthetically pleasing.
It would be cool, as with the PC build simulator, if companies had the software so that you could build a PC virtually, experiment, get feedback on compatibility and performance (and then either buy components or have built). Does that exist yet.
Of a sort. In industries like high-tech manufacturing, aviation, and others where failure is expected and costly, there is used a concept known as 'virtual twinning' where they create a virtual environment that mimics in a software sense the real-life conditions the real-life products and components experience and then use that to try to predict when and what fails, so they can become more efficient with safety checks and not have expensive equipment be out of action for longer than necessary.Originally Posted by johnroe
Am I dreaming it, or did he briefly hang around on hexus about 4 or 5 years back?
I love his work and keep planning to try to emulate some of it, but I'm kinda lazy so my custom builds tend towards "buy a plastic project box and some self-adhesive stand-offs, then hope for the best"
Does anyone remember this one:
https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/mod...cs-oldnewby/1/
https://www.million-dollar-pc.com/sy.../cygnus-x1.htm
Its one of the few custom cases I would actually like to have.
Phage (08-04-2018)
No, not dreaming, he is a member hereAm I dreaming it, or did he briefly hang around on hexus about 4 or 5 years back?
I love his work and keep planning to try to emulate some of it, but I'm kinda lazy so my custom builds tend towards "buy a plastic project box and some self-adhesive stand-offs, then hope for the best"
https://forums.hexus.net/search.php?searchid=13670255
Although not active for a while.
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Meh, looks like a lot of fun to build and makes good Youtube content, but scores low for aesthetic and functionality for me.
It would be a real pain in the arse to upgrade or troubleshoot and I'd be seriously concerned about motherboard thermals. Even though there's a gap in the plate that covers the motherboard where a bit of the CPU heat sink fan dips in, there will be significant dead-air spots and heat build-up due to the lack of venting and as Xlucine pointed out the nest of cabling.
Modern parts tend to sip power and produce very little heat unless you start overclocking the GPU which is where you have to be more concerned.
The part consuming the most power and producing the most heat will be the graphics card,followed by the CPU in a distant second if its overclocked or something like an FX. However,most people don't really overclock so the CPU really isn't consuming that much or even stressing the totally not bling motherboard I have,and even then if it is overclocked 9/10 the system is not going to be under anything like the load of Prime95,etc.
The fact is you also have very small SFF cases too,which won't have the airflow like the Dan Case A4 SFX and its many clones:
https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php
There is no active cooling for the system.
I had a SD37P2 Shuttle SFF system,running an overclocked high VID Q6600 on a hot running 975X chipset,two HDDs,card reader,optical drive and cards like an overclocked HD5850 or an overclocked 8800GTS 512MB. I even had a Pentium D805 in there(overclocked OFC) at one point.
The system worked for 5 years fine,even though it the exhaust was stupidly hot on the side and the back. There was a fansink to cool the whole system with two anaemic 60MM exhaust fans and the fansink blew out the side of the case:
https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/shuttle_sd37p2/2/
I did install a better chipset cooler and put better fans in and ran them at a lower constant speed,but that system probably had tons of deadspots and Shuttle tended to not always use the best caps either. After 5 years I thought it had finally gone kaput - it was actually a dodgy cable on the HDD.
Another mate made an ammo box PC,with a single slot 9800GT,a Zotac 9300 mini-ITX motherboard and it ran stupidly hot since there was virtually no airflow. The motherboard and 9800GT probably still work even today(they were a few years ago).
My current SFF system has one 92MM fansink for exhaust(an all aluminium Corsair H40) and a single inlet fan running at low RPM. I have had that system for years.There are no VRM heatsinks,the chipset has a tiny heatsink,etc - and I use a AIO water cooler,so its not like the stock cooler where you get some air directed to the VRMs,but then its not overclocked.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 08-04-2018 at 01:46 PM.
Love that !
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
Solid wood too - is an Aussie type called West Australian Jarrah.
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