Log My little 11.5L 180mm wind tunnel

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I will constantly update this post as parts arrive. Photos:

1. Revoccases RCC Mid1 from https://revoccases.com/work/rcc-mid1/ arrived, amazingly compact.
2. Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming ITX/TB3 from Newegg Canada. Arrived. The box is surprisingly thick.
3. Ryzen 7 3700X. I wanted a 3300X originally but it's not available at sane prices and I scored a 3700X for 260 USD inc global shipping to Canada.
4. WD 750 SSD. Ordered from Newegg Canada. Arrived.
5. 2 x 16GB RAM. Timetec 3600 from Amazon. Arrived.
6. 2 x Silverstone AP-183 fans from Amazon. Arrived.. What have I done. Each of these fans weigh close to a pound and are a litre in volume. The photo has a CD for scale.
7. Thermalright HR-02 from eBay. This cooler alone is basically as big in volume and weight as those two fans together. Normal people would've just bought a Dark Rock Pro 4 and called it a day but not me. I even have a t-shirt saying "I am not weird, I am limited edition."
8. An ancient NVS 295 card to boot the system (eBay). The real video card is a https://www.galax.com/en/galax-snpr-external-graphics.html which I already own. It's a very SFF eGPU.
9. Dell DA-2 from eBay, arrived, another of those "OMG what am I doing this is huge".
10. PicoPSU 160 XT from eBay.
11. Athena PCI6EPS428 from eBay. Based on information and belief https://egpu.io/forums/psu-cables/us3-dell-da-2-pcie-splitter/ I hope to utilize the PicoPSU 4 pin square input directly.

Stage 2 will be a RAID array for some obscene amount of random I/O:

1. Quad M.2 holder https://smallformfactor.net/forum/t...ards-supporting-bifurcation.13995/post-213225 already ordered. Low profile , of course, I don't want it to obstruct too much of my precious airflow
2. ADT R42SL riser, already ordered
3. Three or four Optane modules depending on whether I need or don't need that NVS 295. Not yet ordered.

 

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Glad to see it arrived in good condition despite my state of the art packing ?

Looking forward to your build

 

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One big step ahead which worth a post in itself: the PCI6EPS428 indeed works! You can see the latest image in the album the 6 pin fits correctly and once the Remote pin is connected to ground the indicator LED goes green (this is visible in the photo) and I was able to measure 12V on the right P4 pins. Later, I taped one of the P4 to the Dell plug and connected a ground pin from there to Remote, much neater than messing with a wire next to the Molex lead. A super neato solution would use a crimped lead instead of a piece of wire folded onto itself to make it fit snugly but I don't have a crimper and pre-crimped Molex leads are backordered until December on Mouse and Digikey both so that's out for now. The PicoPSU connects to the PCI6EPS428 P4 indeed.

 

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The album is now refreshed and you can see the motherboard-CPU-cooler-power has been assembled and it's working. I will put it in the chassis later this weekend and complete the build.

 

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Do you think there will be enough airflow? Also note the highly sophisticated temporary / boot (not sure yet) video card placement secured with a twist tie (note the photo does not run power to the riser -- it doesn't work that way but I am st00pid and forgot, also my BIOS only supports x8/x8 bifurcation the GPU is in slot 1 and the NVMe disk is in slot 3 and it works)



9.8" monitor for scale: