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- Jun 20, 2017
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- Somewhere in Altai mountains.
| System Name | My best |
|---|---|
| Processor | I7-4770 |
| Motherboard | ASUS H81M-K |
| Cooling | Cheap noname fun and custom ALU heatsink |
| Memory | 2*8GB 1600 MHz |
| Video Card(s) | 1050 Ti |
| Storage | Intel SSD 530 120GB, Chinese Team SSD 120GB |
| Case | Custom |
| Power Supply | GPF-350P - Chieftec |
Hello everyone!
A few years ago, when I moved out to different city, I realize, I cannot take my PC (Tower) with me. It was my second my own PC, with Core i3-550, 4*2GB 1333MHz, Palit 560 Ti 1GB and so on. It was good enough, I liked it back in days.
But Tower was huge (40L volume) and weight about 20 kilos. All I can take with me - 1 gym sport bag (big one) and it's all.
So I made a chassis from old radiophone's base station. Installed 175x220 mobo, CPU, CPU fan, GPU via flex riser, TFX PSU (installed in this way, so fan not on the top, but on the side. So, foundation of PSU is 65(70)x175mm side). Total size is 300x250x90mm, about 7L volume and 4 kg weight
My project has a few flaws:
1) In some configurations of mobo, there are very tigh installation mobo+PSU. So tight, that latch on 24+4 pins prevent installing PSU, because latch is located on outer side of motherboard.
2) Generally, there are almost none TFX PSUs, which have PCI-E power supply.
3) Almost none TFX PSUs, which comes within 80+ Cert (I know only Seasonic TFX and 1 Chieftec GPF-350P Most of TFX PSU are OEMs.
4) Even with 2 molex-> 1 PCI-E adapters, my GPU installed in such way, that power connectors available only in back of GPU. If power connector located on side, the connector is blocked with chassis
5) Max length of GPU is limited with 240mm.
P.S.: photo is old, now mobo installed on screws.
A few years ago, when I moved out to different city, I realize, I cannot take my PC (Tower) with me. It was my second my own PC, with Core i3-550, 4*2GB 1333MHz, Palit 560 Ti 1GB and so on. It was good enough, I liked it back in days.
But Tower was huge (40L volume) and weight about 20 kilos. All I can take with me - 1 gym sport bag (big one) and it's all.
So I made a chassis from old radiophone's base station. Installed 175x220 mobo, CPU, CPU fan, GPU via flex riser, TFX PSU (installed in this way, so fan not on the top, but on the side. So, foundation of PSU is 65(70)x175mm side). Total size is 300x250x90mm, about 7L volume and 4 kg weight
My project has a few flaws:
1) In some configurations of mobo, there are very tigh installation mobo+PSU. So tight, that latch on 24+4 pins prevent installing PSU, because latch is located on outer side of motherboard.
2) Generally, there are almost none TFX PSUs, which have PCI-E power supply.
3) Almost none TFX PSUs, which comes within 80+ Cert (I know only Seasonic TFX and 1 Chieftec GPF-350P Most of TFX PSU are OEMs.
4) Even with 2 molex-> 1 PCI-E adapters, my GPU installed in such way, that power connectors available only in back of GPU. If power connector located on side, the connector is blocked with chassis
5) Max length of GPU is limited with 240mm.
P.S.: photo is old, now mobo installed on screws.
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