I've just completed a build using the following:
I created a full write up on my blog but thought I'd share it with the SFF community.
Here are a few photos:
What's an Ncase M1 without a coke can? They should ship one in the box I reckon.
Started taking everything off the M1, mistakenly put the Power Supply in first, ended up taking it back out a few times..
An unfortunate AIO failure, which I didn't end up using:
So I went with the ID Frostflow 240L
This was early in the build. Later I swapped the power supply and made if face inward.
The i7 7820X x299...
For storage:
This thing is super fast.
Put it on the back of the board:
Just at the top edge of where the vent is:
Some final shots:
In the end, the cables are longer than they need to be and quite rigid. One day I'll look to shorten and sleeve them, although I haven't done that before, sounds time consuming .
The PC is fast, I did some benchmarks for anyone interested, even timed some real world project work with Visual Studio 2017.
This was a fun build and pretty much exactly what I wanted. I wrote a few improvements I would have like to have done such as the Zotac 1080 Mini, faster ram and as I mentioned better cable management.
All in all its an awesome small, portable and fast PC.
- Case: NCase M1 v5
- CPU: Intel 7280x
- Motherboard: Asrock X299E-ITX/ac
- 32GB Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz DDR4 SODIMM
- Corsair SF600 600W SFX 80 Plus Gold Power Supply
- Samsung 960 PRO NVMe M.2 1TB SSD
- ID Frostflow 240L AIO Water Cooler
- Light
- Powerful
- Compact
- Easily portable
I created a full write up on my blog but thought I'd share it with the SFF community.
Here are a few photos:
What's an Ncase M1 without a coke can? They should ship one in the box I reckon.
Started taking everything off the M1, mistakenly put the Power Supply in first, ended up taking it back out a few times..
An unfortunate AIO failure, which I didn't end up using:
So I went with the ID Frostflow 240L
This was early in the build. Later I swapped the power supply and made if face inward.
The i7 7820X x299...
For storage:
This thing is super fast.
Put it on the back of the board:
Just at the top edge of where the vent is:
Some final shots:
In the end, the cables are longer than they need to be and quite rigid. One day I'll look to shorten and sleeve them, although I haven't done that before, sounds time consuming .
The PC is fast, I did some benchmarks for anyone interested, even timed some real world project work with Visual Studio 2017.
This was a fun build and pretty much exactly what I wanted. I wrote a few improvements I would have like to have done such as the Zotac 1080 Mini, faster ram and as I mentioned better cable management.
All in all its an awesome small, portable and fast PC.
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