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  • #681
    Nauls said:
    Nice and slick looking! I like the RA connectors on the GPU cabling, I should check some of those out. Is the GPU sagging considerably or is that just a trick of the camera?

    More importantly, is that an LED in the lower right below the Corsair text? What the heck is that for?
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    Its sagging a bit, I have a GPU brace on its way.

    Thats just a yellow decal :)

    Here's links for brace and connectors:


    View: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09FPJL1KY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


    View: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B096S7TTY2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
     
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  • #687
    Shitshow of a party in the back. In the 6000D, even if you remove the case cover behind the motherboard, there is still a panel that hides the cables. I just barely organized the cables in the rear. I needed to be able to put that panel on and not pull at the thin cables going to the fan hub.

    The pass-throughs are essential, though. Corsair has a ton of them, but I would have appreciated a bit more room on top top get around the radiator.
     
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  • #688
    mnpctech said:
    I had the opportunity to create this fallout theme gaming PC for the game's 25th anniversary. I'm using the Corsair 400R mid tower case I designed for Corsair in 2009. The design job paid $29K. In retrospect, I should have signed a profit sharing deal instead because the case went on to recieive Newegg's Golden Egg award and sold out everywhere. I found this one on facebook marketplace last year for $60. I told the seller, "hey, I designed that!" The bulged side panels made it great for adding two 120mm fans alongside the gpu / cpu and cramming cables behind motherboard. Looking at the case today after all of the industry developments since 2009, I'd love the opportunity to do redesign for Corsair, but the market has shifted to "RGB Aquariums" everywhere.

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    Wow, great work as always Bill!


    FYI, I finally retired the "Unreal Tournament" case you built for me 12 years ago.
    I kept the airbrushed side panel to display in the workshop.
     

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  • #693
    malor said:
    So weird to see a case with zero drive bays.
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    This case has two tucked under the PSU shroud, two drive sleds on the back of the motherboard tray, and two more that can be mounted on top of the PSU shroud (I only recently discovered this). Since the drives I'm using are all M.2 NVMe, they are hooked directly to the motherboard and hidden under the included heatsinks for them.
     
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  • #694
    It's been a while. I seem to have lost some things along the way but nonetheless I still live.

    Intel 13900K
    Corsair h150i Elite
    Asus Z790 Maximus Extreme
    G.Skill CL28 64GB
    Asus Rog Strix 3070 Ti
    2x 990 2TB
    2x 870 Evo 4TB
    1x WD Red Pro 10TB
    All Noctua and the ubiquitous O11DE and an AX 1600i stuff in there.

    Long time since I've done a build...

    tGo


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    12700KF - the arctic cooler really helps with keeping temps down and less throttling, although I haven't really pushed it, save benchmarks
    32 GB DDR5
    Nvidia 3090
    Lots of drives, with Windows and games loading off SSDs.
    Corsair HX1200, hence the extension cables, as the included cables are crazy thick.

    Probably my first nearly new build in 9-10 years; only case and HDs carried over.

    It's admittingly a bit of a mess internally, but I didn't feel like replacing my case, as no one really makes one that can hold like 6x 3.5" drives and a BR drive. The Phanks Enthoo Pro is the model with the plastic windows, the tempered glass model didn't exist then, and thus scratches.

    The water cooler and extra CPU power connectors fit with a fraction of a mm to spare. I don't even know why I bother with RGB, as it's not really me, but I don't mind just white.

    Waiting/saving to replace my Asus monitor on the left (doesn't have VESA screws, so it's not on the monitor mount), the Samsung is 4k something from Costco, but the VESA mount is at the top, which is just odd. The Mac Pro there because I don't know where else to put it, although it's not hooked up anymore, it just makes for a handsome shelf.
     
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  • #699
    greatlakeexpat said:
    It's admittingly a bit of a mess internally, but I didn't feel like replacing my case, as no one really makes one that can hold like 6x 3.5" drives and a BR drive. The Phanks Enthoo Pro is the model with the plastic windows, the tempered glass model didn't exist then, and thus scratches.
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    Yah, good reason to keep the Enthoo Pro.

    There are a few choices for a bunch of 3.5" drives but adding in even one 5.25" is tough (Fractal Design Define 7 XL is one, so is the regular Define 7, both review well enough, I'm not sure on the Antec P101 Silent...). So yeah... if you like the Enthoo Pro, might as well keep it. (FWIW, not trying to be comprehensive here, I know there's also the Silverstone CS380 and the be Quiet! Dark Base Pro 900...)
     
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  • #700
    greatoz said:
    It's been a while. I seem to have lost some things along the way but nonetheless I still live.

    Intel 13900K
    Corsair h150i Elite
    Asus Z790 Maximus Extreme
    G.Skill CL28 64GB
    Asus Rog Strix 3070 Ti
    2x 990 2TB
    2x 870 Evo 4TB
    1x WD Red Pro 10TB
    All Noctua and the ubiquitous O11DE and an AX 1600i stuff in there.

    Long time since I've done a build...

    tGo


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    Looks good and welcome back, old man. ;)
     
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  • #702
    Jehos said:
    My case (Fractal Define-C, first post in this thread) has zero visible drive bays from the front. It can mount three SSDs vertically against the back of the motherboard tray and two 3.5" disks under the PSU shroud.

    Hiding drives has been a thing for a while now.
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    Drives have never really needed direct cooling anyway, and putting them behind the front fans blocks air from the CPU and GPU, which far and away need the bulk of cooling these days.
    The only bad thing about putting drives in those locations is that you can very quickly run out of cable space if you actually fill all the drive slots.
     
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  • #706
    Portland_MTB said:
    Wow, great work as always Bill!


    FYI, I finally retired the "Unreal Tournament" case you built for me 12 years ago.
    I kept the airbrushed side panel to display in the workshop.
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    Thats awesome! that lancool case was great!

    btw EPIC games removed all of the legacy UT games from their platform. Bad move, considering retro PC gaming is growing in popularity now and people will want to DL and play them. ...And, EPIC wouldnt exist without the popularity of UNREAL TOURNAMENT.
     
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  • #710
    System update: Changed GPU to an MSI RTX 4070 Ti Ventus 3X OC and installed GPU brace that comes with it. The shipping box looked like a 250 lb. UPS employee used it to sit on during lunch, but the GPU was somehow undamaged. So, the new configuration is:

    • Corsair Carbide Clear 400C ATX Case
      EVGA 450W PSU
      Asus H610M-E D4
      Intel i7-12700F (12C/20T)
      Cooler Master ML240L AIO
      ADATA XPG SX-8200 Pro 512 GB NVMe
      32GB OLOy DDR4-3200 CL16
      MSI RTX 4070 Ti Ventus 3X OC 12GB GDDR6
    Got the MSI 4070 TI used from Amazon for $730. Plugged it in, works great. Ran some benches without any tweaking, except turn off G-Sync, Vsync, etc., and all good is. GPU maxed out at 276W, CPU at 120W so my 450W EVGA PSU didn't have any issue. Below is a photo the MSI 4070 Ti in the case and a screen shot of the Time Spy score. Very happy there's no stupid LEDs on it.

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  • #712
    ScotchFueled said:
    Swapped out the H115i for a Dark Rock 4, and 2 ML140 Pro top fans..

    Temps are great (13700K), and only fans I hear are the GPU when they spin up
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    Heeey, we're GPU brothers! Love the clean look of the Vision series. I've even got that same GPU support mount.

    Used to have mine mounted vertically until my PCIe riser caused me to have to RMA my GPU twice... That was a fun one to figure out.

    I'm totally stealing your idea for the 180° connectors by the way, I've got individually sleeved cables, and the gap between the two 8pins on this GPU make it hard to get a good looking cable route (who made the decision to space the power plugs 2mm from each other? So weird).
     
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  • #719
    I'm out on FMLA leave and keeping VERY odd hours so my wife has exiled myself and gaming to the work shed. Honestly, she gets the 2nd bedroom as a craftroom and I've turned the shed into a she-shed (gah) on the cheap.

    Main Computer: UM680 from Minisforum with a Ryzen 6900HX overclocked to 5.2 ghz cpu and APU to 5200 mhz. The 16 gb of ram is also overclocked to 5200 mhz. Keyboard is a Nurphy Halo 65 and the mouse is some cheap Logitech thing. Macropad is the 6keys from Techkeys. I've got a Dell 4k 27" main monitor and a 24" 2k secondary monitor.

    Tiny Computer: The super miniature desk toy looking Macintosh is in fact a raspberry pi zero emulating a Macintosh 128k, with a replica OG one button mouse. It's fun for playing VERY old games and was my first computer.

    Crazy looking computer on the rack: A Callisto 2 3d printed case with a raspberry pi 4 8gb inside overclocked to a BLISTERING 2.2 ghz with a magical 1024x768 screen and a mechanical keyboard integrated in the case! ( I honestly use this when I'm at work as a teacher as a secondary computer to my school issued laptop as I hate the school issued device, it's not actually faster in use and I prefer Raspberry Pi OS or Arch to Windows outside of gaming.

    Yes, I have enough pill bottles to use them as cheap lighting effects... remember folks, reduce, REUSE, recycle. :D

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