That means I’ll need to upgrade from the Designare to the Aorus Xtreme, which is unfortunately out of stock in the USA due to “Human Malware”. So I guess I am in a holding pattern for now. I have no idea when they will restock, I may not be able to do this build until after Zen3 and GeForce 3000 series arrive.
And yes I will be water cooling. I’ve had my eye on the Heatkiller blocks since Gen1 ThreadRipper.
Video card would be anything reference at the selected chipset, with preference being EVGA. I’ve been through 4 of their cards, and even had to RMA one once and they’ve been good to me.
Aorus Xtreme is a XL-ATX/E-ATX board. It is both wider than ATX and longer (in last 2 weeks GamerNexus did video about the general mess around E-ATX “standard”).
The length
The mobo’s last PCIe slot is in the facto 8th position of extension sockets on PC cases. You have the clearance inside - since I see the PSU is on the back - but any card in there will be just hanging in the air.
Do not forget that in any case you would like to put there a GPU - for whatever reason - you actually need also 9th slot in the case.
The width
All the cutouts for the cables on the right from the 3 most right ATX screw places will be covered by the mobo. Check the photos of the mobo (the screw placements) and compare them with the photos of the PC case.
The back armor
This mobo has also a “armor” on the back - so you need to make sure that PC case do not have rivets in the motherboard plate. And any overlapping with the mobo rubber cover in the motherboard plate will need to be removed as well (that rubber in my PC case sticks out 3-4mm above the plate.
I’ve seen the Designare in the O11D-XL, and it is just about the same size as the xtreme, but I forgot about the backplate on the xtreme! Are you using the xtreme? If so what case is it in? Alternatively off the top of your head, am I missing a motherboard with dual intel NICs > 1Gig?
Yes I have the extreme mobo, The photo is actually of my PC inside.
I’ve just look at the shop I use for browsing, and I see the same positions as two months ago.
Here is the build that actually got me interested me in the Extreme board (at that point I’ve saw that it had the NICs I’m looking for):
Thermaltake is on my ‘naughty’ (gross understatement edited for language) list for the copy of CaseLabs, I know it isn’t that simple, but I need someone to be mad at about CaseLabs.
I know the Designaire can be fit into the O11D-XL without any trouble, I sent a message to the thread starter for that link you shared regarding his experience with the case/board combo.
Someone managed to snap up the last Aorus trx40 Xtreme at my local MicroCenter before I got it. (Sadly it was in store only, and probably at least a 2 hour (6 mile) walk one way). I’m not too hopeful Gigabyte will tool up their production line to run off more of a ‘halo’ product this late in the cycle. I guess we will see. Should have tried hoofing it instead of waiting for a ride.
