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What's the consensus on vertical orientation for the S4 mini? I would assume the vents and aluminum bezel should be on top for heat dissipation, but I searched everywhere and didn't find an answer to this. Sorry in advance for my poor search skills! :/

I bought 2 Dell 330w bricks on Amazon for about half the price of those on the Dell website. They consistently failed with my I7 7700 + GTX 1080 combo. They should have been able to power this fine, as that combo was pulling <300W from the wall. They did work with a GTX 1070, but I've since...

The HDPLEX 400w DC jack is directly compatible with the Dell 330W brick. However, I can't speak to whether it could power that combo. I think the 1080Ti pulls almost 300w so you could be pretty close to the limit. Not sure how much undervolting would reduce the total draw... Good luck!

You're spot on - seems I got a bad Dell brick from Amazon. Tested the system with a power meter and it's drawing ~240w max with the GTX 1070. Even with the 1080 it shouldn't have been more than ~300w, which has been confirmed by others. It seems some of the Dell bricks either aren't legit, or...

Seems I might have a bad Dell 330w power supply. The bad one seemed to crash at around ~240w load. I swapped that brick out for an identical one (also from Amazon) and it seems to be more stable, at least up to a modest overclock. Unfortunately, I had already swapped out the GTX 1080 for a 1070...

Seems I might have a bad Dell 330w power supply. The bad one seemed to crash at around ~240w load. I swapped that brick out for an identical one (also from Amazon) and it seems to be more stable, at least up to a modest overclock. Unfortunately, I had already swapped out the GTX 1080 for a 1070...

Thanks, it's a 330w brick purchased on Amazon and seems legit, but who knows. I'm picking up a power meter today or tomorrow and will test the total draw. I've also now tested it with a MSI 1070 mini - It makes it through the Heaven benchmark, but still crashes during games at high settings...

I can't for the life of me get the Zotac 1080 mini + Intel 7700 working unless I underclock the 1080 as far as possible in Afterburner. This is with the HDPLEX 400 and Dell 330w brick. It just crashes whenever I start Heaven or a game. I'm picking up a power meter today or tomorrow to see if I...

I was able to stop the crashing by turning off Turbo boost (now running at max 3.6Ghz) and lowering the GPU clock speeds to their lowest settings. As soon as I start bumping up the GPU clocks, it crashes immediately during Heaven 4.0. Temps never get over 50C for the CPU and 65C for the GPU...

Wow, really amazing work. Keep it up!

I do have a spare PSU and will give it a try. I also had a power meter but I can't seem to find it, so that may take a day or two to test. I guess if the spare PSU runs okay, it's only a question of whether I'm drawing too much power (likely), or I have a bad power supply.

Thanks for the response. The symptoms do point to a power shortage, but I had thought the 7700K at 4.2ghz + GTX 1080 was benchmarked at around 270w under full load. Here's the review from Josh at NFC with the same setup running at ~240w. I must be confused, or maybe it's the turbo throwing...

I just finished an S4 Mini build with the HDPLEX 400 - both very cool pieces of hardware. Unfortunately, I'm having a problem and hoping someone can provide some pointers. Everything runs fine until I start a benchmark (Heaven 4.0) or a game, even at medium/low settings. Then it immediately...

You might try reseating your RAM, and maybe starting with a single stick. May need to clear your CMOS too. It doesn't really sound like a RAM issue, but you never know. I've had some strange problems due to RAM. Good luck!

I just finished a build with the HDPLEX 400 - very cool piece of hardware. Unfortunately, I'm having a problem and hoping someone can provide some pointers. Everything runs fine until I start a benchmark (Heaven 4.0) or a game, even at medium/low settings. Then it immediately powers off - no...