Hi guys, i just wanted to share my recently finished mini p180 project, any comments / suggestions / questions welcome ! this is where i wanted to go: ( render created with sketchup - 3dsmax - maxwell render ) and this is how it finally worked out two more outside shots and now... the juicy insides the three 92mm nocs from below, showing the cut out where they draw fresh air: U can find more renders / build pics in my galleries if anyones interested. the rig runs a q6600 at 3.45 ghz and the 4870x2 sits at 790 / 915 ( Asus top bios ) Its stable and even under the heaviest loads really quiet.
thanks mate i had to cut many corners in the modding process because i couldnt source the right stuff ( for example the hex mesh has much larger "hexes" than i wanted and, the worst thing the black tinted 3mm plexi was just a centimeter short of being big enough for the whole panel, so i had to cut strips) when ium finally back in europe ill try to build a "ghetto" cnc and order the stuff i really wanted and give this whole thing a second try, then with a white mini p180
why so many fans i wonder... Very nice build though. I saw the render and was praying that you didn't build it and were just having fun with rendering so that i wouldn't feel bad if i stole some ideas... now i will though Oh well! haha
hehehe, i reckon u have to mention me in ur worklog then the amount of fans is nessesary because of the low speed they are running at ( and thereby low noise ) i could have gotten away with just one fast front intake and maybe two fast fans on the gfx, but that would have added noise, a thing i didnt want to have I think it worked out really good, considering the huge amount of money i saved by not moving to water, for this system i would have needed 2x 240 rads which would have used 4 nocs aswell ( one for the gpu and one for cpu + chipset ) so my system is now a little bit louder than under water and i cant clock stable to 3,6 which would be no problem with water cooling i think. but that are really no huge drawbacks considering watercooling would have atleadst cost me another 800 - 1000 E all in all. thats why there are so many fans
let me calculate 4x29 + 3x28 = 200 AUD for the fans Case 160 AUD... lol i didnt realise that funny ( if u take the v8 and the arctic freezer into account aswell its even more there is a worklog over at ocau, but it stopped it at some point because noone cared detailed specs are 4 gig corsair 1066 ddr2 asus p5e vm hdmi ( really great board, only drawback the sata ports, sitting straight in the way of the gfx and a pencil mod is a must do ) 4870x2 (generic dont remember the brand ) q6600 g0 @ 3,45 corsair hx620w ( love that psu aswell, nice color, really quiet ) 2x 500gb samsungs in raid 0 4 chan fan controller ( have to replace it, it makes the noctuas sqeual, any suggestions for a good fan controller ? ) northbridge cooler with intel generic cpu fan on it most of the worklog pics are hosted here in my galleries aswell.
yes thats the one, otherwise the vdroop on this board is just too high to get a stable oc far from 3,0ghz
