Recent content by 2bitmarksman

So basically you want to have a sandwich style layout with oneside being the motherboard and the other being the Flex PSU stacked vertically and the low profile GPU above it via a riser cable?

Used another of these cases for my moms new APU based build. Replacing the 40mm fan in the FSP PSU is 184% necessary because it is easily one of the loudest fans I've had to deal with. Set to silent fan profile with a Noctua L9i and the replaced 40x10mm Noctua fan for the PSU, it's inaudible...

Got an Icydock 6x2.5" SSD optical drive replacement, if the Pure Base was 0.5" wider and a bottom chamber measuring about 1 and 7/8ths to 2" deep, then you could fit 2 of them and have a pretty interesting SFF NAS setup. Would be interesting being able to fit a dual slot PCIe card, 3 x 50x10mm...

Got around to replacing the screws on the 50mm fans with some Noctua NA-SAV4 rubber fan mounts. The tinning noise is virtually gone and is identical both in noise profile to when I was using 2 Noctua 40mmx20mm fans (I suspect whats left is coming from the CPU fan and PSU). It was a big challenge...

I can take a look into this for you if you want. I got some LP brackets I can test with. Also, I'm assuming you're referring to the amount of space from the edge of the motherboard to the inner side of the case?

@Thehack The PSU works alright, but due to mounting holes, you have to have the cable bend face towards the case wall rather than towards the motherboard. This actually works out as it is just the perfect fit if you use wall anchors as ziptie mount points and can keep the cables run under the...

Been a hot minute, but finally got all the parts I needed. SATA powers ran incase I feel a need to double-stick tape some additional SSDs. PCIe slot is free for Anything else I feel like I need to stick in there, but this homelab is setup pretty nicely. 4c/8t, 128 GB of RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, 2x10G...

I'd like to see a Velka 1 for APU + Flex PSU :O

I will second low profile (low profile right angle maybe?) PCIe 6/8pin connectors. These are could alleviate an issue with full height cards having *just* not enough clearance to close up properly :P

Got the linked dock from earlier. Due to how short most SATA data cables are, and to keep the clean front plate, the drives would be accessed from the backside regardless if they'd be hotswap bays or hard mounting 2 3.5" drives

Autobody shop was expedient, so decided to do a bit of assembly and checking out how I want to route things. I'm suddenly debating between continuing the server board based build without anything in the PCie slot and mounting some 40mm fans on the side for good airflow, or build a ryzen...

Got the case and looking forward to building in it. Alas, I left my toolbag in my car that's getting fixed at the autobody shop, so will have to wait til the weekend to pop the top

I'm digging the concept, it makes a lot of sense for most mini ITX boards to be in a Flex ITX form factor, assuming the cost difference at scale is like $5-8 at max. It also opens more interesting options for the x16 slot if it doesn't end up being used for a GPU. I can see a right...

I'd be down for buying something like the Pure X plus a 5.25" drive bay underneath it to stuff an 8-bay 2.5" drive bay IcyDock, or alternatively, have two of these underneath to reduce the volume. The X's FSP support plus the PCIe slot for an HBA/RAID card would be pretty great!

Good to know! Order placed :)