Recent content by Karalux

I bought it for around 200usd, cant remember exactly. I was looking for it for almost 2 years, it popped up in eBay one day. I was looking for exactly IMB-180, the person that sold it to me got it from the Mercedes plant.

Update: I made some upgrades to my pc since i posted this thread. First of all, i wanted to run CPU @4.4GHz for everyday use and was worried about CPU VRMs overheating, so i put some heatsinks on the mosfets to hopefully prolong their life time. Also added a heatsink to a cheap Transcend MSata...

Actually its in the Builds thread: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/old-stuff-gets-a-new-life-sg13-imb-180-build.18226/ Specs are: Silverstone SG13 case, AsRock IMB-180, i7-4900MQ, Jonsbo HP-400S cpu cooler, Sapphire RX 590 Nitro, Cooler Master V550 Gold V2 white edition psu.

In case anyone is curious how this old Laptop CPU performs, i would say its more or less 4790K https://hwbot.org/submission/4981759_karalux_cinebench___r15_core_i7_4900mq_879_cb

Hello everyone, Recently i built my first SFF build and really enjoyed it so decided to share it with you guys. I hope it will be interesting to at least someone since i used quite an unusual motherboard and it took some deep shower thoughts and custom bits to make everything work together :)...

Hello, recently i did my first small form factor build, loved it and now want to share it with this community of similar enthusiasts.

Hello, i got my hands on a little mighty ASRock IMB-180 industrial motherboard with a tiny CPU cooler, which is kinda enough for the 49000MQ under it as long as you dont do any overclocking. The problem is that it has really bad cpu fan control that makes the system to be unbearably loud at load...