I am in the case buying mood again. My Carbide Series Air 540 is just too big and heavy for my 60 year old weary bones. I have always loved a bit of bling and love the look of the Parvum Systems S2.0 case. Looking at my components in my signature am I going to have any issues? Are they easy enough to A) build and B) work with once built? Are they worth the money? I believe one of the manufacturers is a member here but his name escapes me, anyone help me out with that?
I've got a mitx case from them, I loveit Lovely to work with, nice high quality stuff, a refreshing change of design from most cases. I found mine pretty easy to put together, and I think the S2.0 should be better. Once it's built working with it should be pretty good, since you can take any panel off, so you shouldn't have to try and squeeze your hand into tight spots for cabling etc, just turn the case around and remove a panel
Haven't kept track over your SLI exploits but if you intend to keep two GTX 670 then that case might be a problem with the bottom card. From what I can see the last slot is only compatible with single slot cards in that Parvum case.
Well spotted will need to look into that. Thanks mate. By the way all seems fine on the SLI front. I suppose your build was not SLi by any chance. Look forward to seeing that Tom.
Sorry mate did not realise it was only a M-ITX. Thanks. I have PM'ed Imersa with a couple of questions one being the SLI issue.
Not really an SLI issue in itself just depends on your motherboard layout. Just had a look at your motherboards manual and confusingly it also states the slot above the bottom is SLI compatible!?! Could have a little experiment to see if it works and how it splits the lanes in practice if it does!
The case only has 5 PCI slots, I need five if I am to keep the set up as is. Can you explain a little more what you mean by this sentence? "Could have a little experiment to see if it works and how it splits the lanes in practice if it does."
The Manual for your motherboard the Gigabyte Sniper M3 has a diagram indicating all three green PCI-Express slots are SLI/Crossfire compatible. Which is odd seeing as the PCI-E slot second from bottom is described as x4 speed. I was just suggesting you see what happens if you put the second GTX 670 in that slot instead. Then have a look in Nvidia Control Panel to observe how PCI-E Bus speeds are split.
Hi, could you explain where in the Nvidia control panel I would "Then have a look in Nvidia Control Panel to observe how PCI-E Bus speeds are split." But if I did fit the second GPU in that slot I would be back to the potential heat issue as discussed here. http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=270267 Current set up give a nice bit of space between cards so it looks as if the Parvum is a no-no which is a pity as they look good and I do so love a bit of colour.
On the Desktop, right click and open Nvidia Control Panel. Bottom left of the Nvidia screen click on System Information then under 'Details' it'll tell you information about the bus speed! Did your motherboard come with a rigid SLI bridge? If it did then might not be worth bothering switching slots to experiment. What temperatures are you getting in SLI at the moment? Did you try the ASUS on top?
Cheers mate they are running as expected 8. Yes the board did come with a rigid bridge but I do have a flexible one but having a look in the manual I will probably only get a speed of 4 plus I would have temperature issues. There seems to be little difference in temps between the cards whichever position each are in. So until a decent single GPU upgrade to the 670 SLI comes along, or at least one that I could afford the Parvum case will have to wait. Thanks for your help and patience by the way.
Just had this via PM from imersa "I'll speak to Shaun Monday and see if we can do you an S2.0 with 5 slots. We went with 4 literally to keep the size of the case down, it seems to be creeping up in each revision. I suppose it does limit people using gigabyte boards! If this sounds like a good idea then I'll keep you posted. We like to help people out on bit-tech as much as possible." Looks promising.
