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6/8 cores in a Cube / X99 / 5820k / GTX 970 mini / 32GB RAM / M.2 SSD PCIe Gen3 x4
Hi all,
I've been thinking on putting a fast system inside a Cube for a year now.
I've tested the OSXx86 with the help of these pages in a small Intel Nuc, and I'm fine with the software part of this project.
I'll be for sure in trouble with the hardware modifications required for a successfully G4 Cube built.
Long story short, I've been checking for the Z97 platform with a 4790k and the smallest PSU that may give me gold 80 450watts, and by the time I was almost decided to go ahead, I noticed a new motherboard from ASRock with X99 chipset support.
ASRock X99E-ITX/ac means:
- more than 4 cores since it uses LGA 2011 v3 socket type.
- more than 16gb of DDR4 ram (32gb of ram DDR4, faster) (this mobo has 2 slots only, so still dual channel)
- m.2 ssd support (thus, no need to put ssd drives on it, just a small m.2 ssd chip)
- it seems it will be ready to receive Broadwell-E updates chips on 2016.
Then... You'll tell me...
- 6-core in a G4 Cube means 140W of heat... ok...
- none of the Hasweel-E or Broadwell-E i7 (in paticular 6-core i7-5930k) have integrated graphics... Then, I'll need to throw a dedicated GPU on it... ok....
- you're thinking on max 400w of power consumption..... ok...
- I'm crazy... I know. You're probably right...
But I want to think out of the box, out of the cube in this case.
And I want the fastest possible cube (within my budget)
What could go wrong then?
Flexibility must be the key:
- I don't plan to keep any of the internals: the opening-closing mechanism would be impossible to keep with the above configuration >> Then I'll have 4.91 L of volume inside the (170x170X170)mm metal cube..
- I found already the smallest modular PSU I may fit on it that will give me 80plus 480watts... Silverstone ST45SSF-G
The system then will be composed of:
- case G4 Cube (got it)
- motherboard: X99E-ITX/ac (got it)
- processor: 6-core i7-5820k (got it)
- ram: 32GB DDR4 2133MHz (got it)
- SSD Samsung M.2 SM951 supports 4 PCIE Lanes (32GB/s) (got it and it works great!!!)
- GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 Mini 4GB DDR5 (got it)
- psu:450W PSU 80gold (got it)
- coolers: Dynatron R24 (comes with the mobo), Dynatron R25 and Dynatron R31 in case the stock R24 is too big. (got them all)
- fans: Noctua NF-A9x14 and Noctua NF-S12A PWM (got them)
If I find the extra space:
-2 x 512 GB SSD Drives 850 Pro in RAID 0, to hold OSX, and make the M.2 drive above to keep Windows 10 as (bootcamp + parallels). I already have the ssds in a macbook pro 2012.
I have another thread where I'm trying to find out if this new X99 motherboard should work easy with OSX and how hard it is, compared to other ASRock X99 mobos that successfully got OSX. (edited: OSX 10.10.4 does work indeed perfectly with this motherboard and graphics card)
trs96 (moderator) suggested me I'd also post this thread in the G4 CUbe section, so here I went.
Thanks trs96 for the suggestion.
So, now... the above as an intro, I think is fine...
See my next post were I'll show some color-sketches of volume management inside the cube.
Hi all,
I've been thinking on putting a fast system inside a Cube for a year now.
I've tested the OSXx86 with the help of these pages in a small Intel Nuc, and I'm fine with the software part of this project.
I'll be for sure in trouble with the hardware modifications required for a successfully G4 Cube built.
Long story short, I've been checking for the Z97 platform with a 4790k and the smallest PSU that may give me gold 80 450watts, and by the time I was almost decided to go ahead, I noticed a new motherboard from ASRock with X99 chipset support.
ASRock X99E-ITX/ac means:
- more than 4 cores since it uses LGA 2011 v3 socket type.
- more than 16gb of DDR4 ram (32gb of ram DDR4, faster) (this mobo has 2 slots only, so still dual channel)
- m.2 ssd support (thus, no need to put ssd drives on it, just a small m.2 ssd chip)
- it seems it will be ready to receive Broadwell-E updates chips on 2016.
Then... You'll tell me...
- 6-core in a G4 Cube means 140W of heat... ok...
- none of the Hasweel-E or Broadwell-E i7 (in paticular 6-core i7-5930k) have integrated graphics... Then, I'll need to throw a dedicated GPU on it... ok....
- you're thinking on max 400w of power consumption..... ok...
- I'm crazy... I know. You're probably right...
But I want to think out of the box, out of the cube in this case.
And I want the fastest possible cube (within my budget)
What could go wrong then?
Flexibility must be the key:
- I don't plan to keep any of the internals: the opening-closing mechanism would be impossible to keep with the above configuration >> Then I'll have 4.91 L of volume inside the (170x170X170)mm metal cube..
- I found already the smallest modular PSU I may fit on it that will give me 80plus 480watts... Silverstone ST45SSF-G
The system then will be composed of:
- case G4 Cube (got it)
- motherboard: X99E-ITX/ac (got it)
- processor: 6-core i7-5820k (got it)
- ram: 32GB DDR4 2133MHz (got it)
- SSD Samsung M.2 SM951 supports 4 PCIE Lanes (32GB/s) (got it and it works great!!!)
- GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 Mini 4GB DDR5 (got it)
- psu:450W PSU 80gold (got it)
- coolers: Dynatron R24 (comes with the mobo), Dynatron R25 and Dynatron R31 in case the stock R24 is too big. (got them all)
- fans: Noctua NF-A9x14 and Noctua NF-S12A PWM (got them)
If I find the extra space:
-2 x 512 GB SSD Drives 850 Pro in RAID 0, to hold OSX, and make the M.2 drive above to keep Windows 10 as (bootcamp + parallels). I already have the ssds in a macbook pro 2012.
I have another thread where I'm trying to find out if this new X99 motherboard should work easy with OSX and how hard it is, compared to other ASRock X99 mobos that successfully got OSX. (edited: OSX 10.10.4 does work indeed perfectly with this motherboard and graphics card)
trs96 (moderator) suggested me I'd also post this thread in the G4 CUbe section, so here I went.
Thanks trs96 for the suggestion.
So, now... the above as an intro, I think is fine...
See my next post were I'll show some color-sketches of volume management inside the cube.
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