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Not a huge fan of 3D printed cases since they will probably not do super great with the heat over time. If you like this form factor, check out the mini-box M3
by paulmd 7y ago
Not a huge fan of 3D printed cases since they will probably not do super great with the heat over time. If you like this form factor, check out the mini-box M350 or the Velka Velcase 3.
The Velcase 3 has the interesting advantage that it can just use straight-up discrete GPUs (mITX style shorty cards) so you can just use a normal 3700X and say a 2070 or similar.
Yes, the lack of a socketed version of the new APUs was kind of disappointing, as was the lack of a B550 launch to support PCIe 4.0 on a cheaper board without a chipset fan.
Hopefully these follow sometime in the future but we may have to wait for computex.
- phkahler 7y ago>> Not a huge fan of 3D printed cases since they will probably not do super great with the heat over time. If you like this form factor, check out the mini-box M350 or the Velka Velcase 3. I can see that. The original Mellori has been running over a year with no issues. The plastic is mostly 3mm thick, and the cooling solution covers most of the inside surface. It's my development machine, so it doesn't work as hard as gaming would push it. Compiling code will max all 8 threads for a minute or two, but the fan doesn't even spin up all the way. >> the lack of a B550 launch to support PCIe 4.0 on a cheaper board without a chipset fan Yeah, I was looking at the Aorus x570. It looks like the fan is attached to a NVME cooler. I could probably remove that and put a passive heat sink on. The case has good airflow right across that area when there's no GFX card in the slot - air has to go around the edges of the board and out the bottom. With an APU the only use for PCIe 4.0 is for the M.2 slots which are pretty fast even with 3.0. I'm also considering the Aorus B450I as a much cheaper alternative. I've also considered having it printed from metal.