Recent content by badaaim

Photos look very good and enticing Michael. So excited to see the revisions. Pardon the silly question. You mentioned no support for HDPlex, but I hope this doesn't mean we cannot find our own means for securing the HDPlex units? Again, great overhaul.

On another random note, I started this design a while back but never followed through, I am so glad I will be able to firstly, have such a small form factor that I so wanted from a while back, secondly, have almost exactly the same layout as Michael's.

Thank you very much for your information, I will look it up. As I mentioned above, I provided wrong information previously. I actually have HDPLEX 300W AC-DC power supply + 400W HiFi DC-NanoATX unit. The dimensions of the 300W Power supply is in-fact 151.4(D) x 62 (W) x 41 (H) mm as provided...

This made me rethink on what parts I had. Turns out I actually had 300W AC-DC which HDPLEX don't have available on their site now. Only in their 10 years history can I find some reference image.

Hi Michael, I have both the HDPLEX 400W AC-DC (Ver1.0) and HDPLEX 400W HiFi DC-ATX (older version) and whilst the mounting holes I don't mind if they are incompatible, I can find a solution potentially, would they fit in the Velka 3? Are they both compatible size-wise? I viewed OptimumTech's...

Hi, this is a very long overdue reply, but I got the HDPlex 400W AC-DC adapter and HDPlex 400W Hi-Fi DC-ATX power supply. I am not knowledgeable to give an intelligent oversight on it but it's completely passive and depending on the design, comparatively flexible to flex atx psu. I never ended...

I received mine today, living in England. Thought it might be of information. Looks really good.

Thank you very much for this information. I required exactly this but I was unable to find it anywhere and had lack of experience to know of it. Really appreciate it

The Graphics Card is definitely a lot longer than the reference model I was using. I will definitely have to consider that. Thank you very much for your input.

I cannot guarantee 100 % how much the clearance riser cable at the bottom would require but I have roughly estimated for it here. I decided to have the panels perforated as suggested with 2mm clearance between the panels and the fan. As things goes, I am still iterating it and probably change...

hmmmmm that is interesting. so the "standoff" would be the actual chassis with the outer panel as a back-plate to the motherboard as how a CPU cooler has a backplate? With the vibration I am assuming from the CPU cooler? How much would it affect in general? Up until now I had decided to use...

I really appreciate your input in this matter. That is something I kept thinking about, rejecting the idea of using just electrical tape as it wouldn't prevent those sharp leads from preventing shorting. No matter, I am going to continue ideating and shortly enough post about my success or...

YES!! without standoffs. I am trying to have minimum clearance between the tray and the motherboard so I was looking if that was possible, So currently from my research I am under the impression that non-conductive material is required for that. So far cardboard or vinyl wrap could be a...

Hi everyone, Is it possible to mount motherboard directly onto metal casing with anti-static plastic sheet in between? With back-plates for cooler and m.2 SSD, there would be large cut-outs on the case. Or for the matter just cardboard sheet? I remember watching the STX 160 disassembly video...

ah but you see, there's that 20 mm gap from the case to the actual card which will add quite a bit of thickness to the case. D type was the minimal thickness configuration