The Tech Report have put together a video tour of their Breadbox system, a SFF gaming system built around the Z170 chipset. The machine uses a i5-6600K on the Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 motherboard with 16GB of DDR4-3000 and Gigabyte's tiny version of a GTX 970. The components are all housed in a EVGA Hadron Hydro, a tight fit but sufficient to hold the parts. Check out the video for more information on the components and how the system performs when gaming.
"We recently built a small-form-factor PC we like to call the Breadbox with some help from our sponsors at Gigabyte, OCZ, G.Skill, EVGA, and Logitech. We documented this Breadbox on video, and now it's ready to make its Hollywood debut. Grab some popcorn and enjoy our tour of this pint-sized gaming PC."
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I don’t mean to be a dick
I don’t mean to be a dick but… My first thought when seeing this system was, “Did a newbie build it?” Buy some wire ties and put some effort into cable routing. That looks bad. I’m sure that it’s not helping airflow either.
Sometimes you can’t avoid it
Sometimes you can’t avoid it with small cases. You get a nice quality power supply and the cables are long enough for a full tower… once you get it crammed into a matx case you almost run out options.
Unless you do your own cables, it can be a task.
I am a big fan of techreport
I am a big fan of techreport but I gotta say it does look like almost no effort was put into the cabling. I’m not sure why they keep showing it off open because it needs to be closed, lol. I’m sure the boxed water cooling works great but it also is a bit of an eyesore.
I put together a smaller system a few years back and have done several miniitx builds and there is always space. Cables bend and zip ties can hold them together.
And when it doubt, route
And when it doubt, route cables behind things. Worst comes to worse it takes seconds to use a holesaw or a step bit.
I wish they were a bit more
I wish they were a bit more ambitious and built into a really small case, like a SG13.
That looks godawful. This is
That looks godawful. This is my breadbox:
http://imgur.com/a/1NXlo/all
No Fury Nano? what a waste
No Fury Nano? what a waste
check out this build with the
check out this build with the smaller Hadron Air case, it is amazing:
http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-Hadron-Golden-Nugget-Water-Cooled-Hadron-Air-m2095492.aspx
That Gigabyte card isn’t that
That Gigabyte card isn’t that great. It spins its fan at max RPM during startup and the minimum fan speed is unnecessarily high at 33%. You could of course mod the BIOS to get it to about 20% but 0% isn’t possible.
I’d go for a refrence 970. Too bad that they’re hard to find.
do reference 970’s even
do reference 970’s even exist? I thought NV never made a reference for it and it went directly to the product partners.
To quote AT: “Furthermore, as we mentioned in our GTX 980 review, GTX 970 has been a pure virtual (no reference card) launch, which means all of NVIDIA’s partners are launching their custom cards right out of the gate.”
“do reference 970’s even
“do reference 970’s even exist? I thought NV never made a reference for it and it went directly to the product partners. ”
Correct. HOWEVER: there are a handful of manufacturers that sell 970 cards with 980 PCBs and 980 reference (NVTTM ‘lite’) heatsinks, with the magnesium heatsink shroud stamped with ‘970’ rather than ‘980’. These are not ‘official reference’ designs, but are identical to the cards Nvidia originally provided to reviewers, so they’re for all practical purposes reference cards.
Do you mean it spins the fan
Do you mean it spins the fan max until the OS and drivers take over??
Most cards do a short few second max fan at boot, never seen one take it beyond that.
Guess reality for small cases
Guess reality for small cases with powerful fans/PSU’s/CPU’s/video cards[with more fans]=often noisy?
Quiet rules…