neilhart
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- Motherboard
- ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming - ITX/ac
- CPU
- i7-7700T
- Graphics
- GTX960
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
A catch up post:
I have the scratch built case mostly complete. The project follows the 80/20 rule, where 80 percent was completed in 20 percent of the time and the remaining 20 percent seems to take forever.
And a side note. Late last year I purchased on sale a Fractal NODE 202 case (which included a Fractal Design Integra SFX 450W power supply). I evaluated the case using my ASUS Z170i Pro Gaming mother board and I was impressed but not enough to leave that motherboard in that case. I decided to salvage the reusable parts and junk the case. I reused the PSU in this project.
As seen in the photos that follow, the bottom panel now has two 4” round ventilation holes that align with the MSI GTX 770 GPU fans. also I have added 4 feet that are 1/2 inch tall. And the round 1/2 inch holes in each foot provides access to the corner mounting screws.
The top panel remains as shown in a preceding post. The top panel houses the SilverStone Tundra Series TD02-E all-in-one Liquid CPU Cooler. I have the fans set to exhaust air through the rad.
The front panel provides the only air intake for the system through the mesh covered window. I have installed USB 3.0 and audio ports taken from the “fractal NODE 202”. The on/off switch, reset switch and power and HDD LEDs are incorporated in my sliding light pipe design (this is my third system that I have used this design concept).
The rear panel needs to be re-made as I have made a mistake locating the PSU mounting and had to elongate the mounting holes to get the fit that I wanted. And now the countersunk flat head cap screws had to be replaced with washers and pan head screws.
The right side panel has a motherboard access hole placed for access to the bottom m.2 slot and the CPU cooler bottom mounting plate. At this point I am thinking of using an acrylic panel attached by countersunk cap screws.
I have the ASUS motherboard RGB LEDs turned off as I find them to be distracting.
While I have the system mostly complete, I do need to purchase connectors and plns so that I can re-terminate the PSU harness with the cables neatly routed and cut to the correct length. It is a mess of cables now.
I am mostly pleased with the case project. It is “over kill” for the i3-7350 and was built with running an i7-7700K in mind. I plan to pick up the i7 CPU at a good price some time in the future.
Lacking is HWMonitor.app support for Kaby Lake and I need to sort out the USB 3.1 Type C port which at the moment does not work. However the system is stable on 10.12.3 and using VoodooHDA 2.8.9 the audio works at both front and rear ports as does audio over HDMI.
And that brings up the point that I am using one DVI display at 1600 x 1200 and one HDTV over HDMI at 1920 x 1200. I purchased the MSI GTX 770 used for $80 USD recently.
Good modding
neil
I have the scratch built case mostly complete. The project follows the 80/20 rule, where 80 percent was completed in 20 percent of the time and the remaining 20 percent seems to take forever.
And a side note. Late last year I purchased on sale a Fractal NODE 202 case (which included a Fractal Design Integra SFX 450W power supply). I evaluated the case using my ASUS Z170i Pro Gaming mother board and I was impressed but not enough to leave that motherboard in that case. I decided to salvage the reusable parts and junk the case. I reused the PSU in this project.
As seen in the photos that follow, the bottom panel now has two 4” round ventilation holes that align with the MSI GTX 770 GPU fans. also I have added 4 feet that are 1/2 inch tall. And the round 1/2 inch holes in each foot provides access to the corner mounting screws.
The top panel remains as shown in a preceding post. The top panel houses the SilverStone Tundra Series TD02-E all-in-one Liquid CPU Cooler. I have the fans set to exhaust air through the rad.
The front panel provides the only air intake for the system through the mesh covered window. I have installed USB 3.0 and audio ports taken from the “fractal NODE 202”. The on/off switch, reset switch and power and HDD LEDs are incorporated in my sliding light pipe design (this is my third system that I have used this design concept).
The rear panel needs to be re-made as I have made a mistake locating the PSU mounting and had to elongate the mounting holes to get the fit that I wanted. And now the countersunk flat head cap screws had to be replaced with washers and pan head screws.
The right side panel has a motherboard access hole placed for access to the bottom m.2 slot and the CPU cooler bottom mounting plate. At this point I am thinking of using an acrylic panel attached by countersunk cap screws.
I have the ASUS motherboard RGB LEDs turned off as I find them to be distracting.
While I have the system mostly complete, I do need to purchase connectors and plns so that I can re-terminate the PSU harness with the cables neatly routed and cut to the correct length. It is a mess of cables now.
I am mostly pleased with the case project. It is “over kill” for the i3-7350 and was built with running an i7-7700K in mind. I plan to pick up the i7 CPU at a good price some time in the future.
Lacking is HWMonitor.app support for Kaby Lake and I need to sort out the USB 3.1 Type C port which at the moment does not work. However the system is stable on 10.12.3 and using VoodooHDA 2.8.9 the audio works at both front and rear ports as does audio over HDMI.
And that brings up the point that I am using one DVI display at 1600 x 1200 and one HDTV over HDMI at 1920 x 1200. I purchased the MSI GTX 770 used for $80 USD recently.
Good modding
neil
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