I know the last time this thread was updated over a year ago now, but I thought I’d just try to rekindle the fire, so to speak… I upgraded to the Enthoo Evolv Mini-ITX case, purely to improve cooling, the issue I had with the RVZ02 were:
No support for 3.5" drives
SSD’s were getting too hot from the GPU the which was on the other side of the a pretty thin piece of metal
Heat issues in general
This new case solves all of the issues I was having, not to mention that since I’ve upgraded my cooler to the Corsair H80i V2, I think my CPU has hit about 50°C at most, which I find beyond epic!
[This isn’t my build, just look at how sexual this little beast of a case is though!]
The Plan was to put stupid power into a tiny box. I had to make changes unfortunately.
No, that nano is not working in a case that limited on airflow around the PCIe slot.
I had to switch that for the Sapphire 570 ITX, which is not bad… but, you know…
Otherwise the build was very manageable, not easy but also not terrible.
Most of the stuff is already mounted to the board. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is really just strapping cables together mostly.
Other than the GPU switch I also downgraded the CPU to a 2600, removed the back I/O cover to allow for more airflow and I only connected the red drive LED for power, just for looks.
Later I switched the RAM to something faster because … well, I got it cheap. I am running this at the 3200 speed and timings though.
And that’s it.
It’s not as crazy as I wanted it to be but still a lot of oomph in a package that small.
I am running this at the 3200 speed and timings though.
