Finally 'finished' Nini-ITX build...

[looper]

See components in Sig...

Well, I got the new rig going as of 2 days ago. It was amazing how fast the Win 10 OS on the MS flash drive installed...What took a while was DL/installing all the updates. The latest bios is '2002'... did that too. I have not used anything on the Asus drivers DVD... everything seems like it's runnng ok.

I've had issues with the DDR4-3200 Corsair not running at that speed. Initially, for whatever reason with just 1 8GB stick in slot 2 it would boot but at 2133. In the bios, using 'EZ tuning wizard', clicked on the automatic 'gaming' setting, and rebooted. It was a very mild OC, with 4120 on the i7-6700k, the dram freq at 3112, the BCLK to 103. MHz, core voltage 1.312, and the XMP saying 3112 at 1.350. For now, I didn't feel like putting the second 8GB stick back on the MB... it's a PITA, honestly.

My 3 fans (Noctua C14 on cpu, and 2 120mm Vardar's exhausting on side panel) seem fine at stock speeds...haven't touched those settings for now. I notice no throttling.

In Battlefield1, I'm running on 'High' settings. I know this rig can handle 'Ultra' but I want to continue max frame rates against these kids with their faster reflexes than mine... The game is fun, but I stink at throwing that dang anti-tank grenade...

I'll wait 'til next month to get the DAC (Audio Engine D1)... Unless there's a cable I could get for now so that I can use my desktop M-Audio AV40's (powered, 2.0) setup that has RCA's with the MB audio connectors .....

This dang case is very SEXY on my desk...

I wanted to send in some pics, but I'm having probs w/ the comp 'seeing' my LGV10 phone...hmm.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Well, reading your post, I had to search and look. A lot can be done with that case if you have clear ideas about it.

With the outlay that I'll spend on new parts, mini boxes fill me with uncertainty as to what I might expect. And I'm a "case-recycler" -- When one system dies or retires, I put the case aside and then use it for another system when there's the opportunity.

This time around, I might have wished that I could leave ATX and mid-tower behind, but those uncertainties or the prospect of being "boxed in" make me sort of sissy about it.

"Boxed in" . . . . . heh-heh . . .

 

[looper]

Well, reading your post, I had to search and look. A lot can be done with that case if you have clear ideas about it.

With the outlay that I'll spend on new parts, mini boxes fill me with uncertainty as to what I might expect. And I'm a "case-recycler" -- When one system dies or retires, I put the case aside and then use it for another system when there's the opportunity.

This time around, I might have wished that I could leave ATX and mid-tower behind, but those uncertainties or the prospect of being "boxed in" make me sort of sissy about it.

"Boxed in" . . . . . heh-heh . . .

Yes, I was afraid when I bought the Ncase M1, as I knew I would have issues w/ this tight-fit build and with my limited amount of patience and skill at this stuff. But, I was smitten when I saw this case...love at first sight.

But even w/ all my bad language and frustration when building it, it still has been fun... rather like when back in the 1600's/1700's Iroquois warriors would supposedly stick burning twigs under captured colonists' fingernails.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I see it more like the difference between working in the engine compartment of a '64 SS Impala compared to that of a '79 Honda Civic.

I once had a dermatologist scrape out a huge wart on one of my fingers where I'd injured myself a year earlier working on the Civic.

I guess that's why I'm testing things like 2.5" hot swap bays and my GTX 1070 Mini OC card -- to test the equipment water as I might eventually relieve myself of these midtowers . . .