Other [Poll] Hardware Survey

[Truth]

This survey seeks to give us an outlet to detail what our parts are, with the hope to discern the average system of a user in SFF.N, equally this may prove useful to many, such as the various product (accessory, case, etc.) vendors that lurk throughout the community threads.

If you've answered on the previous Discord version of the survey, you will need to take it once again as almost all answers have changed.

Results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1An1G-audKuO6XBOrIeL51G-ntjw6RTRbZ9lYMKrE20c/viewanalytics​

 

[confusis]

Done my bit!

 

[Truth]

Glad to see you get in on this! Thank you, we're currently up to 11 correspondents which is faster than the Discord version by far!

 

[confusis]

Glad to see you get in on this! Thank you, we're currently up to 11 correspondents which is faster than the Discord version by far!

I missed the Discord one! Easier for me to see forum stuff as I'm AFK a lot with work

 

[Arboreal]

Done, information imparted

 

[thelaughingman]

done my bit

 

[msystems]

Too late maybe but id suggest to add more PSU options and to break apart the wattage from the form factor

These are the other form factors:
1) "Pico" (these are built into the 24pin ATX connector & go up to 160w, also made by G Unique)
2) "Nano" (i.e. streacom 160w and HDPlex 300w is in this category). These are smaller than SFX but bigger than Pico and have no standardized dimension
3) "External" (i.e Dell brick, G-Unique modded brick, ect). This demonstrates how many people chose to remove the inverter from inside their case itself, or aren't using an inverter at all.

& For cooling perhaps add "passive" as an option, even though there's probably only 2-3 of us nutcases running streacom or HDplex or something complete custom like the NYCesquire cube thing https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/antimemetic-fully-passive-gtx-1080-sff-scratch-built.1414/

 

[scatterforce]

I kinda fibbed on the cost. My PC tower is less than 2k. The desk, speakers, chair, mouse, keyboard...... I spared no expense.

 

[Truth]

Too late maybe but id suggest to add more PSU options and to break apart the wattage from the form factor

These are the other form factors:
1) "Pico" (these are built into the 24pin ATX connector & go up to 160w, also made by G Unique)
2) "Nano" (i.e. streacom 160w and HDPlex 300w is in this category). These are smaller than SFX but bigger than Pico and have no standardized dimension
3) "External" (i.e Dell brick, G-Unique modded brick, ect). This demonstrates how many people chose to remove the inverter from inside their case itself, or aren't using an inverter at all.

& For cooling perhaps add "passive" as an option, even though there's probably only 2-3 of us nutcases running streacom or HDplex or something complete custom like the NYCesquire cube thing https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/antimemetic-fully-passive-gtx-1080-sff-scratch-built.1414/

Good suggestions, considering this is the second survey of its kind I may do a future revision in 2023 with improvements from yall's suggestions, so they're very welcome! The bigger note here was the passive, I hadn't even remembered it at the time which is truly my bad.

 

[Truth]

I kinda fibbed on the cost. My PC tower is less than 2k. The desk, speakers, chair, mouse, keyboard...... I spared no expense.

Yeah same, my tower cost is 3.4k but my total setup cost is closer to 12k lol

 

[Truth]

Thank you all!

 

[Truth]

Add for future based on recommendations:
[PSU] - Pico, Nano, External
[Cooling] - Passive, Submerged (Mineral or other)
New category: [Motherboard sizing] - E-ATX, ATX, M-ATX, ITX, DTX, a300, other
New category: [Ram Amount] - 2 to 4gb, 6 to 12gb, 16 to 32gb, 48 to 128gb, Beyond 128gb
New category: [Ram Speed] - Below 2900mhz, 3000 to 3400mhz, 3600 to 3800mhz, 3900mhz to 4200mhz, Beyond 4200mhz
New category: [System tuning] (Multiple choice) - RAM OC, GPU OC, CPU OC
If you guys have any more suggestions on this, feel free to throw them my way so I can keep updating this for next years revision

 

[msystems]

Submerged (Mineral or other)

Great, now if I can just get my hands on some 3M Novec 649