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| Thread ID: 140104 | 2015-08-18 05:40:00 | Lets talk Skylake | DeSade (984) | Press F1 |
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| 1406970 | 2015-08-18 20:16:00 | I have had problems bk T but my newer cases have been designed to accommodate coolers better and have a very large square hole. From memory the 690 II has a rectangular hole that was just large enough for a Hyper 212 provided the CPU socket is in exactly the right place whereas my corsair 350D (mATX) has a square hole about 2-3 times as large as does my bitfenix prodigy (itx). So it's all about case design, and the 690 II is an older one. Amusingly my itx case has more room for a large cooler, space for a 200mm intake fan, and 3 more 3.5" bays than my mATX case. I've been through a few and they all have good and bad points, I had a 690 and liked it except for the side mounted buttons, moved to a storm scout for the carry handle and liked it better, then went big with a storm trooper (awesome case but huge), then swung the other way and went tiny itx cube style Silverstone SUGO SG06 found that too limiting, grew to the prodigy, decided itx was too small and went for the corsair :) I've settled in the middle now, mATX is small enough without too many compromises. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1406971 | 2015-08-18 20:51:00 | The 690 II has quite large opening but just doesn't align with my Z97-A MB, other than that, it's a nice case, quite good air flow. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1406972 | 2015-08-18 22:37:00 | Does the 690 II still have the buttons and USB on the side like the older one did? that was my main complaint on an otherwise really nice case. The CM storm scout is similar but has a carry handle and all the controls are on top and angled, perfect for under the desk where my PC lives. Kinda wish I'd kept that one. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1406973 | 2015-08-18 23:02:00 | The USB and buttons are on the top. I would prefer them to be on the side rather than on the top which collects dusts. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1406974 | 2015-08-19 03:36:00 | Got my new hardware, idle temps in BIOS are 18C so that's impressive. Just left it updating windows at the moment, no time to benchmark anything or do any burn in tests until tonight. One thing , Holy Snapping ring turtles Batman does installing from a USB 3.0 windows 10 flash drive to an M.2 SSD go fast compared to using a DVD. Windows installed and running in less than half an hour. Also when will manufacturers stop using those horrible bloody tabs on the back plate that make getting the motherboard positioned such a pain in the butt. I had to remove the case fan so I could see what was getting in the way and then bend a couple of them out of the way. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1406975 | 2015-08-19 03:45:00 | Sounds nice Looking forward to the tests. |
DeSade (984) | ||
| 1406976 | 2015-08-19 04:22:00 | WOW, idling at 18° C it's beautiful. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1406977 | 2015-08-19 08:53:00 | Prime 95 20 mins in, varies from 55 - 60C across all 4 cores If I run furmark at the same time and get the GPU up to 82C then the CPU hits 65C Stock settings, clocks at 4ghz with all 4 cores at 100% Virtually silent too, the BIOS doesn't seem to think the fans need cranking up at these temperatures. So the verdict is, hyper 212 evo is pretty good for stock settings. I'm not sure I'd try much of an overclock with it but I'm happy with this performance. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1406978 | 2015-08-19 09:42:00 | Apparently the Z170 mITX boards are delayed until Sept/Oct, waiting for the gamers to get out of the way... I'm holding out for the GA-Z170N-wifi. In addition to an M.2 socket for the included Wifi, this particular mITX has another M.2 socket on the bottom that I'm going to use for the OS |
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