PSU fit in ITX cases can be iffy, I’d definitely follow the manufacturer’s recommendation if it doesn’t already come with one included and the price isn’t gouging
and yeah happy to rep “running an overclocked Titan X on 450w” over here any time
granted there’s a reason I’m so down on AMD itt, I am pretty demanding about efficiency
the performance increase from RAM speed on Ryzen pretty much plateaus at DDR4-3000; you should only invest in faster memory if you intend on using the APU’s integrated graphics, which you aren’t because you’re talking about a 1050ti, so
ALSO the 1050ti is probably the fastest card to not require additional power besides what it gets from the PCI-E slot so you are plenty fine in the 400W range
MOREOVER if the ITX case you’re picking is compatible with an ATX PSU, going with an SFX PSU just opens up your options for whatever else it can hold (usually cooling options, extra drives or longer GPUs) unless it’s totally in a separate, dedicated PSU spot
here, have some damn pictures of how ATX and SFX compare in my SG13 (though honestly this is more non-modular vs fully modular but also most SFX supplies are modular because ITX cases are birthed on their own special layer of hell)
Ah, I’ve got one of those Thermaltake V1 cases coming. Wanted something small and compact enough that I could tuck away without taking up too much space.
I…might lean on the integrated graphics for a while? Like the 1050ti I’m eyeballing isn’t too expensive, but it’s the whole everything else to get it up and running that will be.
I dunno! I should probably give myself a bit more time to lump some cash together and get better parts. I’m only looking to do pretty basic stuff (emulation, indie games, and some drawing, if I can find my key for Clipstudio and my tablet) while trying to keep at least a little headroom available to bump it up if I can afford it down the line.
After the Bitphenix case sucked hard, I went for the Chieftek Cubus, which is admittedly bigger, but has a nice feature i absolutely wanted to try out:
Two of the 2.5" SSDs are mounted to the bottom of both included 3.5" HDD bays, so it has been a breeze… almost like night&day compared to the former case.
exactly, i bought it over here in yurop/germany.
fwiw, i also had to resort to a reseller, since amazon itself has listed it out of stock until the end of january.
also:
i have bought the multi-colored SATA-cables this time since I manually assigned numbers to the red ones ten years ago, when i built my RAID5 machine.
also also:
i’m calling it a gimmick since you have to take off the front fascia, plus both lids left/right, and loosen a screw each in the upper rear corners before you can tilt it forwards.
It’s cool, of course, but i doubt i will be using that too often (i. e.: very rarely)… but yeah: Compared to saturday, this time i actually had fun putting it all together, so that alone has been worth it
oh hey did I remember to tell you to not buy the 1050ti because you can get the RX 570, which runs stuff faster, for less if you look around and it comes with two games an-
maybe hope that the Nvidia eGPU driver situation improves?
iirc the drivers Nvidia provided that you could install yourself on upstream macOS like some kind of hackintosh weirdo finally broke under the newest point release so that’s not great
laptops just kind of suck now if you have a clear idea of what you want and how it worked 5y ago, here’s hoping that improves