Hey from Australia,
I am a long time nerd, gamer from way back but mostly just use my PC for some casual gaming and mostly music these days.
I have always liked the idea of small PC's and it started about 10 years ago when I built my gaming rig in mATX form in a Silverstone Fortress dust can case.
This was the mATX vertical mount with everything hanging out the top.
At the time having a rig with a GTX780 and i5 2500k seemed nuts in an mATX, at least to most of the people I hung around, who were of the thought bigger was better. Somewhat true until my PC went toe to toe with theirs.
Somewhat recently I finally upgraded this very PC to an ncase m1 air cooled running an i5 8600k and Zotac GTX1080 mini.
This lasted approximately a month and was upgraded to a 1080ti founders card and an i7 8700k.
I found the noise of the blower card unbearable and my D9L was struggling with keeping my 8700k under control, so I ended up delidding the 8700k and putting an Accellero 3 on the 1080ti. This netted great results themally.
I then got the watercooling bug. Thought I would try build my first loop in the ncase.
My ncase m1 now houses a Custom loop (basically all EK apart from the 92mm rear rad).
It has been an expensive but fun steep upgrade path but it has settled down now with the exception of plans to try integrate another radiator or some full sized bottom fans with the assistance of some 3d printing voodoo I see popping up around these forums.
Any questions ask away.
I am a long time nerd, gamer from way back but mostly just use my PC for some casual gaming and mostly music these days.
I have always liked the idea of small PC's and it started about 10 years ago when I built my gaming rig in mATX form in a Silverstone Fortress dust can case.
This was the mATX vertical mount with everything hanging out the top.
At the time having a rig with a GTX780 and i5 2500k seemed nuts in an mATX, at least to most of the people I hung around, who were of the thought bigger was better. Somewhat true until my PC went toe to toe with theirs.
Somewhat recently I finally upgraded this very PC to an ncase m1 air cooled running an i5 8600k and Zotac GTX1080 mini.
This lasted approximately a month and was upgraded to a 1080ti founders card and an i7 8700k.
I found the noise of the blower card unbearable and my D9L was struggling with keeping my 8700k under control, so I ended up delidding the 8700k and putting an Accellero 3 on the 1080ti. This netted great results themally.
I then got the watercooling bug. Thought I would try build my first loop in the ncase.
My ncase m1 now houses a Custom loop (basically all EK apart from the 92mm rear rad).
It has been an expensive but fun steep upgrade path but it has settled down now with the exception of plans to try integrate another radiator or some full sized bottom fans with the assistance of some 3d printing voodoo I see popping up around these forums.
Any questions ask away.
