Recent content by JournaL

Yeah, I did more digging, and Athena Power is definitely in the independent class of cheap PSUs (had problems with PSUs catching fire back in the early 2010s). Back to the drawing board...

What do you guys think about the Athena 700W PSU. Rated 80 Plus Bronze, however has slightly more wattage headroom despite lower efficiency. http://athenapower.com/product/power-supply/flex-atx/ap-mfatx70p868

I am interested in purchasing this to see if it can run a RTX 3090, and possibly a 4090 with ATX cable mod. Doubtful though.

Another way to mitigate the temperatures is to have an open case. Several come to mind, XProto, Sunmilo H01, Streamcom DA-06, Aperio/Motif Monument to name a few. Although it may be unsettling for some to see expensive hardware not protected by outer shell of metal, plastic, or glass. (Ie pets...

My goal is always to have the most powerful hardware in the limited space and small footprint. So I have a Z-Cases P50 with Flex ATX Enhance 7660B 600W PSU along with a 5800x (undervolted and power limited at 85W) and a RTX 3090 at power limit of 90% and undervolted (roughly 335W power draw...

Sorry duplicate post.

I would like support for SFX (and SFX-L) PSU, and longer frame to support larger graphic cards in addition to the suggestions mentioned above. USBC cut out would also be nice. The RTX 3090 I had didn’t fit into the P50 along with various 3080 and AMD cards due to length issues. I ended up having...

I have the Z-case P50 case along with a Enhance 7660B PSU from SFFTEC powering a underpowered 5800x at 65W and a RTX 3090 (at 90% power) on a custom liquid cooled loop with 8 fans. Obviously not ideal, but is stable to run triple AAA titles at 4K at decent FPS. I am looking for a PSU upgrade...

What I did was spend even more money to get a waterblock which reduces the size of the card significantly and hooked it up to a water loop. Until GPUs become more fruitful and reasonably priced, all this is heresay. Grab whatever card you able to obtain at a decent price and make it work.

If anyone is wondering in terms of power requirements. I have a RTX 3090 and a Ryzen 5800x undervolted and running certain games such as Metro Exodus with a power limiter of 70% on my RTX 3090 will trip up power supply. If you are thinking anything 3080 or 3090 along with a 90w TDP CPU, probably...

Looks very nice. Interested in transitioning from my Z-Cases P50

Thanks! I don't know if they updated the board yet, but I built a 8700K system for a customer a few months back with that particular motherboard. When he connected his TerraMaster USB-C DAS to the build he complained to me that the USB-C port in the back only had Gen 1 speeds. I looked at the...

Like others have said, it is a more awesome verison of the Lian Li's PC-05S,X,W... (which I found stunning but could not justify the $400 price). I would prefer a HDPlex or G-Unique as an alternative to the Flex PSU (although I have never tried the Enhance brand, so maybe that may change my...

Planning a December Build for a customer Case: CustomMOD Slim ITX (refinished and repainted) PSU: G-Unique & 400W Dell power brick CPU: i7 8700K Mobo: ASUS ROG Strix Z370i Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 3000 GPU: Unknown at this point. Looking at possibly AMD Vega Nano or Geforce...

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