Hello @djlild7hina ! I'm finally building my system after a very long delays (not related to the system) and i ran into some problems with PCI card placement.
My system:
Sage 10/g, 64GB RAM, 9940, Gigabyte Vega 64 reference 8GB, 1terra*2 M.2, cg Titan Ridge, BT/WiFi from your recommendation (thanks again!), Hx1200i, Housed in a Be Quiet darkbase 700.
I've started installing my custom loop for the system (2*360 rads, d5, Byksky Gpublock, xspc raystorm cpublock).
I would like to put GPU in Slot 1 and cg Titan Ridge on Slot 2, as recommended (TB functionality is very important to me). Right now, after installing the GPU blocked card in that place, it reaches on top Slot 2 by a fraction of a millimeters. The Titan Ridge doesn't fit. Even if it does, it would be too close to the GPU that might cause extra heating as well.
My solution for now is to use a narrow 250mm long riser card for the TB, and milling the Plexy part of the block to enable the riser to fit in place. I have the tools to do that, but i wonder if there is a more elegant solution.
Do you know what are the downsides of installing the GPU through the Plexy chip? I.E., Slots 3&5. Does it adds lag or some other artifacts? I do video editing as well so im interested in that aspect. Thanks in advance!
In the pics is the Plexy block before milling, and the unloaded beast.
EDIT: the pics got re oriented after upload. Sorry about that.
Thanks, looking forward finishing it!Hmm. I don’t think there will be much issues when it’s in other slots but the next best slot would be Slot-5. Could you use the riser cable and mount your GPU vertically? Or another GPU block?
It’s one of the downsides of the sage that the Thunderbolt card has to be in Slot 2. But that’s the only slot tied to the pch.
Looking good! Show pics when it’s completed!
I'm not 100% on how much performance is affected in slot 5 vs 1 so it might be something to look out for. From what I can tell they both are similar but YMMV. If you do end up putting it in slot 5, avoid slots 4 and 6 otherwise all slots will be x8 (except slot 1).
Thanks again, djlild7hina! Haven't thought of that. Do you know if there's a downside to rise the TB card and by this keeping all as recommended? Maybe its a better route to follow? Its not that hard for me to carv the gpublock in order to make the room for the riser.
Thanks again, djlild7hina! Haven't thought of that. Do you know if there's a downside to rise the TB card and by this keeping all as recommended? Maybe its a better route to follow? Its not that hard for me to carv the gpublock in order to make the room for the riser.
Hopefully you could carve out a little to avoid risers at all.
Ugly as hell! I hate the riser solutions, but the only way is to thiner the plexy on the byksky all over the board by 4mm, shorten its screws and hope that nothing else would change.. im pretty disappointed by the byksky block, it doesn't suit the sage measures or the sage is the exception, who knows? Though call.Nah. I don’t think so except that it won’t look as good.
