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Just a baby step, but it freaking too hot to do much in the garage. Wanted to finish up the front I/O this morning, but tried to 'kit bash' two together and ended up with two useless mangled ones :/ Did manage to get the power/HDD LEDs solved, but I'm not 100% sure they are the same color as...

So shockingly, after three weeks Newegg backed out. Week one: Here's your RMA we'll send you the correct one (listing gets corrected) Week Two: Because we sent you the wrong item we have to check to see if our inventory is correct (Um, ok, sure...) Week three: Our RMA team says you received...

Would I be correct in guessing that if one added a top plate to the bottom of the case it would allow for a nice clean symmetrical horizontal orientation by adding feet to one side? (if so is there a possibility of running an extra top panel or three for this application?

As far as the graphics card cooling, yeah the HDplex tube/sink system is my backup plan if it gets too tricky. I do have a mill, so I can machine clearance for the board's lumpy bits as necessary. The TFX psu was half the price of their 400w unit so a fan spinning up on boot was the compromise...

"The nice thing about this design is that it can easily be extended and used to make the longer case..." This. First thing I thought when I started reading was make the end caps modular and then folks could just order the 4 panels and spine extension to fit the GPU they chose. Ever play with...

Welp, so of course Newegg shipped the 2gb 1050, so that's in RMA limbo right now but ti looks like it's going through that'll get the correct card which they had on sale for $199 this week anyway. But the rest of my goodies arrived like the new mobo/memory/cpu for the SG06 freeing up the AM1 and...

If you're still looking, I think there is an error on Newegg right now, they have the Gigabyte LP 1050Ti part number listed for $155 even though the pics are the 2gb regular 1050 LP. The one article that compared these rated the gig higher than the MSI especially is noise is a concern. In any...

Way ahead of ya. I have to run back out to the surplus store anyway to buy the (on)-OFF-(on) power switch and the stand offs and such (the fastener aisles at this particular store are killer for small specialty bits) and in their milk crates of random heat sinks they had this monster of one I...

So I bit the bullet an pulled the GTX1050ti from the SG06 and put it on epay... musta been too cheap becasue it sold in less than time than it took to take it out and blow the dust off. A quick pass through the oogly googly and it seems the verdict is that the Gigabyte version of the low profile...

I had my eye on a couple small 'desktop' reel-to-reel tape recorders they had, but they just weren't quite big enough. But so long as you're not Mr. Hardcore gamer, you could build this same set up with one of those new Ryzen chips and a GT1030 for about $500 (depending on how much storage you...

It's just the stock OEM one from the 1 gb rev. 3 card. I'm tempted to remove that big tab with the MSI logo on it just becasue it looks rather gratuitous... like they put it there just to have a place to print a logo. Got my eyes out for a low Profile GTX1050ti, but don't want to spend more...

Last month my mom's Dell watchyamacallit died (seriously Dell, you can only get an entry level computer to last 8 years?) so after an afternoon at the bandsaw I had that case chopped down to a Mini-ITX sized mobo and rear plate for mock-up purposes, and with it's TFX power supply nestled in...

So a million years ago (2010) I was a pretty early adopter of the Silverstone SG06. Over the years as parts needed changing (like a PSU which strangely stopped working after swallowing a glass of iced tea, early mobo's which couldn't push the i7 like they promised etc) it became rather a...