Update 04/12/2018 - Streacom have assured us that the DA2 will be shipped to us this week. All being well, we will be able ship the cases before Christmas. We will let you know once the cases are on their way to us.
Not the most interesting build, but a lot of very detailed pictures and some testing/thermals: https://www.chiphell.com/thread-1932559-1-1.html
Regarding QuietPC UK, if they receive theirs this week or next week, then they can ship out those pre-orders on the week of the 17th. By express air, people should get it just before Christmas, I suppose.>All being well, we will be able ship the cases before Christmas.
Hrmm... So if things go well, we might get it by early Jan?
Do you know the clearance between the mother board and the top of the case, or even better, the distance between the center of the CPU to the top of the case? I'm wondering if the NH-C14s would work in the "heat pipes down"-direction. I already know it will not work with my ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I in any of the other directions, so maybe i can get away with sticking the long part up.
Do you know the clearance between the mother board and the top of the case, or even better, the distance between the center of the CPU to the top of the case? I'm wondering if the NH-C14s would work in the "heat pipes down"-direction. I already know it will not work with my ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I in any of the other directions, so maybe i can get away with sticking the long part up.
Who knew the vrm heat sinks of this mother board would be such a problem with air coolers.
I also have Asus Z390-I and NH-C14S. I found that the cooler is only able to install in one direction, ie with heatpipes running parallel to the memory modules and the ends pointing away from the GPU. So, if the mobo is positioned in the most typical orientation, the heatpipes are actually ''pointing up''. Is this what you are having too?
Anyway, in the above orientation, the NH-C14S will overhang over the edge of the motherboard. I suppose, this amount of overhang is what worries you about, ie the ends of the heatpipes touching the top of the case.
I estimate, your worry is justified unfortunately!
Pic 1 below shows the clearance between top edge of motherboard and the bottom of the inner acrylic sheet. Basically, it is the thickness of the aluminum 'piece'.
Pic 2 shows the thickness of 10mm which I estimate from the known dimensions of the case, using a pro rata basis.
From my own measurement of the amount of overhang, it needs about 25mm minimum clearance.
So, it is not going to work.
Over the years, a lot of stuff must have accumulated in your storage?@Alexander @Sirex Alas, I have already packed the case away and put it into storage :/
Over the years, a lot of stuff must have accumulated in your storage?
Is it not a waste to store away hardware that you received for review?
I mean, there must be some better ways to treat them.
Eg selling them with the proceeds to finance this site, giving them away by lottery, using them by yourself and other site staff.
Or, maybe, just donating larger hardware like a case to a local charity or an orphanage or some place like that to help out the underprivileged. And it fits the season too.Not as much stuff as you'd think. The problem is that I'm doing all this out of my bedroom so stuff has to move asap A lot of it does come out and is used for testing/etc. A lot of it is used by site staff as well Occasionally parts are swapped/sold to fund more parts for testing too. Shipping a case out of NZ would cost a bomb though
Good to know. Looks like those who have pre-ordered will have their unit before Christmas.We have start shipping the DA2's worldwide, thank you for all your patience.