I had an addiction. I was spending so much money and time on SFF. It was time to stop.
I had to go cold turkey.
So I bought a razer blade 14. It was great! I could game, mostly, noisily with a small amount of space and it just worked.
I had the little guy for a couple years, and inevitably I upgraded to the blade 15 when it dropped. So good, except for the idle fan noise, thermal throttling and the extreme fan noise if you plug in a monitor.
I still lurked in this forum and watched all the new case builds come to production. The circle pro drew my attention, and I bought it! I was back in. Damn.
It is such a beautiful case. So clean.
I thought "It's ok. I'm doing it just one time. And the case is so small and restrictive that I can't upgrade the cooling. It is stuck with the 240mm aio and pump block. It's set and forget. I'm safe. I won't backslide back into addiction."
It was such a nice build!
And then the pump broke. Nasty nasty grinding noise that wouldn't stop. Alphacool Eisbar LT. Luckly, I had a spare DC-LT pump sitting around, which is inside the Eisbar, so I swapped it out.
Couple days layer, same problem. Not air, nothing like that. Just something wrong with the bearing. Honestly, it's not the first time, or second time, or third time I had an Alphacool pump fail so I won't be doing that again.
But I digress.
I now had an ssf pc that wouldn't run as it had no pump. So I went to my parts bin. Surely there was a spare pump there. Surely, I could just get the pump, and nothing else would tempt me.
Surely.
I mean, I had the laptop, right?
It was around this time I started seeing stuff about the ncase v6. Something I always wished my ncase had a full vented side panel. This would have been good for my 180mm radiator in an ncase build I did. Maybe you saw it ?
But then I remembered. I still had the parts from that build. Still had the fittings. Tubing. Radiator. Fan...
Wait... I had two of those 180mm radiators.
Two.
Two.
Yes.
Why not?
So I ordered the ncase m1 v6. And while I waited, I started gutting and cutting and drilling my ncase m1 v3.
And I ordered a new cpu, ram, motherboard, gpu.
And I ordered a psu.
And new fans. 3 of them.
New tubing. And fittings.
New waterblocks.
Monitor as well. Why not.
But, I am not addicted to SFF. I am not.
I swear this is the last time.
I don't have a problem.
I make sound financial decisions.
I make good choices in life.
I am in full control of my sanity.
Now, for any questions you may have.
Ill update progress here as I go along. May god have mercy on my soul.
-Ash
I had to go cold turkey.
So I bought a razer blade 14. It was great! I could game, mostly, noisily with a small amount of space and it just worked.
I had the little guy for a couple years, and inevitably I upgraded to the blade 15 when it dropped. So good, except for the idle fan noise, thermal throttling and the extreme fan noise if you plug in a monitor.
I still lurked in this forum and watched all the new case builds come to production. The circle pro drew my attention, and I bought it! I was back in. Damn.
It is such a beautiful case. So clean.
I thought "It's ok. I'm doing it just one time. And the case is so small and restrictive that I can't upgrade the cooling. It is stuck with the 240mm aio and pump block. It's set and forget. I'm safe. I won't backslide back into addiction."
It was such a nice build!
And then the pump broke. Nasty nasty grinding noise that wouldn't stop. Alphacool Eisbar LT. Luckly, I had a spare DC-LT pump sitting around, which is inside the Eisbar, so I swapped it out.
Couple days layer, same problem. Not air, nothing like that. Just something wrong with the bearing. Honestly, it's not the first time, or second time, or third time I had an Alphacool pump fail so I won't be doing that again.
But I digress.
I now had an ssf pc that wouldn't run as it had no pump. So I went to my parts bin. Surely there was a spare pump there. Surely, I could just get the pump, and nothing else would tempt me.
Surely.
I mean, I had the laptop, right?
It was around this time I started seeing stuff about the ncase v6. Something I always wished my ncase had a full vented side panel. This would have been good for my 180mm radiator in an ncase build I did. Maybe you saw it ?
But then I remembered. I still had the parts from that build. Still had the fittings. Tubing. Radiator. Fan...
Wait... I had two of those 180mm radiators.
Two.
Two.
Yes.
Why not?
So I ordered the ncase m1 v6. And while I waited, I started gutting and cutting and drilling my ncase m1 v3.
And I ordered a new cpu, ram, motherboard, gpu.
And I ordered a psu.
And new fans. 3 of them.
New tubing. And fittings.
New waterblocks.
Monitor as well. Why not.
But, I am not addicted to SFF. I am not.
I swear this is the last time.
I don't have a problem.
I make sound financial decisions.
I make good choices in life.
I am in full control of my sanity.
Now, for any questions you may have.
- Yes, I intend to paint all the scratched parts. I have the equipment and paint and sandpaper for the black, and will be cerakoting the parts that need it.
- I am only loose fitting the side radiator and tubing until the v6 gets here.
- I am blocking all sources of air into the case except for the raditors and side panels, and exhausting all air through the noctuas in the top. In through the sides, out through the top.
- The pump is completely silent, as I have polished the impeller long ago and done a few other mods.
- There is a kinda manifold on the res/pump area that splits flow equally between the two 180mm rads, and returns the flow together to the reservoir.
- Cooling performance should be excellent.
Ill update progress here as I go along. May god have mercy on my soul.
-Ash