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[Lysrin]

Agreed. The only thing I really need it for is ARGB control since I can set fan curves in bios.

Yes BIOS is what I ended up using, just to avoid having another piece of software running. For example I tried Fan Control, and it is good, but the BIOS is good enough for me. I don't need anything fancy, just as quiet as possible without getting too hot!

But with Crate, I'm sure there was a setting somewhere in it that allowed me to set what my motherboard RGB did when the computer was turned off. In the past I set it to breathing red. But for the life of me I haven't been able to find where I set that before... so I have just decided to ignore the breathing rainbow as much as possible lol

If you come across that setting in your travels do please share! Maybe it's obvious and I'm just blind.

 

[Caldezar]

Agreed. The only thing I really need it for is ARGB control since I can set fan curves in bios.

Signal RGB is far superior imo. Then you're free of Armoury Crate altogether.

 

[Caldezar]

My camera skills aren't great, but here we are post-AM5 upgrade. Need to mess with RGB still and possibly replace a few fans. I also have a nicer GPU bracket coming.

 

[JD]

The very compact JONSBO C6, that is the size of a mATX board and a bit bigger than a 140mm fan in depth.

Ryzen 7700
MSI PRO B650M-P
G.SKILL Flare X5 96GB (2 x 48GB) DDR5-5200
2x be quiet! Pure Wings 3 140mm
480GB + 2TB 2.5" SSDs mounted to the front
2TB NVMe
Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx
SeaSonic G Series SSR-450RM

** Note don't buy a motherboard with the USB3 header at 90 degrees, needs to be straight if you want to use this case and it's front USB ports. Likewise, 90 degree SATA ports don't work either.







And just barely enough room to swap out the NVMe or expansion cards if I ever need to but I'd probably remove the PSU first anyways. Probably didn't need the little 40mm fan I put on the NIC previously either with the 140mm right below it now.

 

[CMetaphor]

I need to come here more often to talk cases with you guys n gals. There's so many new weird cases coming out all the time, and Some of even aren't half-bad!

@JD Would that Jonsbo be able to mount a 120mm Watercooling AIO if you swapped in an SFX psu on an ATX-to-SFX adapter plate? And am I blind or are there no front intake fan mount holes? Kind of a shame if the latter, because far too many SFF cases neglect airflow for compactness. This Jonsbo, however, actually looks pretty dam decent for it's size!
-Direct cold air to the GPU ️
-Sufficent space for mATX in a case that's closer to ITX ️
-Two (or more, in this case - pun intended) full-height expansion slots large enough for some high-end GPUs ️
-No "dead air" pockets, aka decent airflow throughout the interior of the case ️

Yep, that ticks a LOT of boxes to make a really solid, high-end gaming SFF PC. The only thing it's really missing is intake fan filters, which you can remedy (if you want) using cheap Amazon kits - they have magnetic straps you can easily cut and enough filter material to probably make 2-3 240mm x 120mm filters, maybe more.

So yeah, solid little case

 

[CMetaphor]

I do realize this is meant to be a pictures thread, but I just thought I'd mention this here:

I'm still on the hunt for the "Perfect Dream" ITX high-end gaming SFF case. I HAD a contact with one company (who basically only exist in the European and Asian markets, they have almost no products in North America) who actually seemed receptive to considering designing a variant of one of their existing cases. Well, that guy stopped responding suddenly a year or so ago when they wanted Lots of credit for basically no meaningful design ideas, all of which were already in mine. I was going to give them credit and mention them by name regardless, but once I mentioned possibly making a YT video on the subject, they immediately stonewalled me.

So I guess I'm back on the hunt? I've got three of their cases, one of which is dam near close to perfect IMO and will be the case I use when I eventually catch up on my projects and FINALLY upgrade my main gamer... to a 5900x . Yep, parts sitting on a shelf for almost 2 years now I think, thank you flood+covid+medical @#$%. I'll likely be able to use the other two cases as well: one of which could be, IMO, a near-perfect APU build case (if I ever actually build an APu gamer system). And the last/third one was to be the basis off which I wanted to make design changes to make into the true, "Perfect Dream" ITX gamer case.

Sadly, since being cut off by that one employee, I haven't been able to re-establish contact with that company at all. So right now my only real option to build the case would be a company called Protocase. I don't think I've seen anyone here ever mention them, and they primarily do custom sheet metal stampings and similar. They do offer full prototype 1-off case builds though, but 1) I doubt I could afford it and 2) I seriously question if my design wouldn't just be completely stolen instantly by such a company, were I to fully model it in a CAD program then send it to them for a quote (need to do a LOT of legal -type research to see who retains ownership of the design, stuff like that, but I've basically got No experience with those topics).

Anyways, for the short-term: the first project I'll probably make a build log for and post the final pictures of here would be my most urgent build: rebuilding my file server, my "collection". Antec 1200 full transplant into a Coolermaster Cosmos S case. Not exactly ground-breaking, but that system needs Lots of love... once I fix some issues... but AFTER I make a full disaster recovery backup of all my data onto external drives. Yeah... living in Quebec and with completely unreliable power network, I'm waiting at least another month or so before attempting the many many hours of slow USB3.0 mirroring it'll take to make that disaster recovery. Bleh. Even with my expensive sine-wave 1500va UPS I'm afraid to start the process and lose power (it's literally happened during calm, sunny days - thank you HydroQuebec).

As per usual, I've made a massive wall of text that most won't read. Oh well. Sorry to dump my brain out a bit. Ttyl HWC

 

[JD]

@JD Would that Jonsbo be able to mount a 120mm Watercooling AIO if you swapped in an SFX psu on an ATX-to-SFX adapter plate? And am I blind or are there no front intake fan mount holes? Kind of a shame if the latter, because far too many SFF cases neglect airflow for compactness. This Jonsbo, however, actually looks pretty dam decent for it's size!

The front can fit a 120mm instead of the 2.5" SSDs I put there. With a SFX PSU, you might be able to squeeze an AIO in there? I think the hoses would be far too long though to be able to manage. A custom loop with a block that has the pump/reservoir built into it would likely work better.

It's honestly a lot smaller than I had envisioned though, minimal space to get your hands in to work in it too. But it's a neat little case, very lightweight too. I have it placed up on a shelf and moving around the big old Fractal Define S (9kg!) was getting to be too cumbersome.

 

[freeagent]

I left my little Torrent Compact and moved into a big PA602.. massive case lol..

Cable management is a breeze, even more so if you don't have any cables lol..

 

[freeagent]

New AIO

 

[sswilson]

Nice, is that the Thermalright Aqua Elite in your sig?