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And here's the final piece - an 5.25" 8-bay SSD hotswap device (Athena Power BP-15287SAC) So if anyone wants to add a CD drive to their A4, its technically possible. Only half the bays are loaded, will get some additional drives to fill in the other 4 (gonna be a lot of SATA cables in here)...

After building a more recent A4 build (see here), I couldn't figure out what to do with the old one. Recently came to the realization that I could use it as a NAS (since I would only need to add drives and can re-use all the other components), and started going down the rabbit hole of "just how...

Finally swapped my previous SFFPC with this build (only took me six months...) and ran some tests with OCCT, where I stressed the CPU and GPU together for 10 minutes. CPU reached 83 at peak, and then sat idle around 45. GPU reached 65 at peak, and then sat idle around 34. So, at idle its...

Some additional details on the images above: Fans I had some extra 40mm fans and an unused fan header on the board, and realized there was 0 airflow on the motherboard side of the case, so I added them at the top in exhaust to help get some air in there. I removed the side panels on the HDPLEX...

Hello all, it took an age and a half but I finally found some time to wrap this thing up. Haven't done any temperature tests (any recommendations on how to do that?) but I downloaded a decibel app on my phone and am disappointed to say that at idle, it's about 5db louder than my air cooled...

I came across a post on Alphacool's official forums where someone confirmed that it was compatible with the non-Ti iterations. To be fair, I've only installed the block and it seems to fit nicely, I'm still not at the point where I can power the system on to make sure all the contacts are good.

Ok, water loop is "complete", as in all of the tubes have been cut and bent and the system holds pressure for 24hrs, which means when the time comes it should be ready to hold water! One of those bends took eight tries to get right - was a doozy of a route to run, as it had to go around the...

It's not a custom cable, its one that ships with the HDPLEX and I'm hooking it up to a Dell power brick so it should be fine...

Found a little bit of time to make some progress today. First, shortening the wires on the DDC pump, which were over a foot long and only needed to be a couple of inches (first and second images). Also worked on creating a hole for the DC barrel plug to go, since a fan and the HDPLEX will be...

I have no doubt that's true, but I'm sure they had more than a centimeter of space between the two radiators. I can always try it both ways, I just feel like with the limited clearance, turbulence will be more of a problem than impedance (which is what I'm assuming is the limiting factor in the...

Ok all the parts are in, and I was able to do a dry fit to make sure everything I visualized in CAD is actually going to work out, and with one exception that seems to be true. The GPU looks to be at a bit of an angle, so will have to figure out what's happening there. Other than that just...

Has anyone ever had an issue with their GPU not fully sitting in the PCIE riser? Just got a new 4.1 and MSI 4070 Ventus, and you can kind of see it in the image below that the left side of the GPU is higher than the right when attempting to seat the GPU fully in the riser - there's no way to...

I had not considered that, but the case only supports 92mm fans at the top/bottom so I'm not sure the airflow would be much improved. I am however considering flipping one of the rad fans to intake, so that I have a push/pull like configuration with a small gap between to hopefully sneak in a...

Slow going on getting the parts for the loop, the GPU block was backordered so still waiting for it to ship. Got all of the EKWB fittings though, and wanted to share the monstrosity I contrived to get from the CPU to the GPU, which is made of eleven extenders/adapters/fittings:

At the very least, that TechPowerUp build makes me feel better about the amount of clearance I have for my fan intakes!