I finally have some potato pics of my original Microbox-o-fun which I have just updated with an R9 Nano. Apple for scale, I used the last banana in a smoothie. For now I have 4 pictures in the album.
When I originally started this project, I wanted a perfect cube, so I started with the smallest dimensions in which I could reasonably fit a mini-itx motherboard along with space for a single-slot PCI card. Factoring in some clearances, this left me with 185mm per side, internal dimensions. Adding in 5mm per side for acrylic, and the offset of the aluminum extrusion, I have a 200mm cube. This gives 6.3l internal or 8l total volume.
Unfortunately, GPUs these days are all dual PCI, so the GPU is mounted to the back of the case above and inside it's normal position. Originally I had an 80mm fan on the top of the case, but I realized I could have actually squeezed in a 92mm fan. With the R9 Nano being even smaller than the R9 270x ITX, I actually fit a Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 120mm fan up there. Little rubber feet keep the cube lifted off of the desk surface about 8mm so the 140mm cutout on the bottom can intake air.
I've heard a lot of dire reports about the coil whine in the Nano, and I'm happy to say that my Sapphire Nano has little to none. I can hear it just a bit if I turn the case so that the opening for the GPU is facing me and I'm 0.5m away. As the opening is on the side, once the case is rotated back to normal and when I retreat back to the couch 2m away, I can't hear anything.
It feels as if they made the Nano just for me
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Fire Strike went from 5689 on the R9 270x to 11711 with the R9 Nano. Now all I need to do is swap that old 120GB SSD for a newer 512GB one.
For reference, the original cube writeup is on pcpartpicker and there's a small imgur album of more potatoshots as well.
When I originally started this project, I wanted a perfect cube, so I started with the smallest dimensions in which I could reasonably fit a mini-itx motherboard along with space for a single-slot PCI card. Factoring in some clearances, this left me with 185mm per side, internal dimensions. Adding in 5mm per side for acrylic, and the offset of the aluminum extrusion, I have a 200mm cube. This gives 6.3l internal or 8l total volume.
Unfortunately, GPUs these days are all dual PCI, so the GPU is mounted to the back of the case above and inside it's normal position. Originally I had an 80mm fan on the top of the case, but I realized I could have actually squeezed in a 92mm fan. With the R9 Nano being even smaller than the R9 270x ITX, I actually fit a Prolimatech Ultra Sleek Vortex 120mm fan up there. Little rubber feet keep the cube lifted off of the desk surface about 8mm so the 140mm cutout on the bottom can intake air.
I've heard a lot of dire reports about the coil whine in the Nano, and I'm happy to say that my Sapphire Nano has little to none. I can hear it just a bit if I turn the case so that the opening for the GPU is facing me and I'm 0.5m away. As the opening is on the side, once the case is rotated back to normal and when I retreat back to the couch 2m away, I can't hear anything.
It feels as if they made the Nano just for me
. Fire Strike went from 5689 on the R9 270x to 11711 with the R9 Nano. Now all I need to do is swap that old 120GB SSD for a newer 512GB one.
For reference, the original cube writeup is on pcpartpicker and there's a small imgur album of more potatoshots as well.
