25th
Mar
Compacting the main pc from a TJ07 to a Ncase M1.
johskar
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I have been working since last summer on compacting my main pc from a full sized TJ07 to a mini-itx Ncase M1 case and finaly stage 1 is complete.

It’s a thight fit, but I definately worth the hours put into it.
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Next stage will be to fully watercool both CPU and GPU again like it was in the TJ07, can feel the gray hairs sneaking up on me allready.

Specs:

  • Case: Ncase M1 v2.0.
  • Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Impact.
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-4790k.
  • RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3-2400 Red).
  • GPU: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 something something (I forgot the rest).
  • Storage: 256GB Samsung SSD 830 (OS).
  • Storage: 512GB Samsung SSD 830 (VMs).
  • Storage: 512GB Crucial MX100 (Games).
  • Storage: 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7200rpm (Storage dump).
  • PSU: Silverstone SX600-G v1.1 (had a v1.0 first that died after a few weeks…)
  • Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H105 with 2x Corsair SP120 Quiet Edition fans.
  • Audio: Audioengine D1 USB DAC
  • Displays: 2x Dell U2412M lovely displays.
  • Keyboard: Roccat Isku FX
  • Mouse: Razer Mamba 2012

Nice compact beast that covers most my gaming and basic virtualization needs.
Any heavy virtualization I do on my Lab Cluster anyways.
(which I probably will make an updated post about in the future.)

Pictures below!

(Should’ve had some pictures of the TJ07 for comparision, forgot to take some before stripping it…)