On November 22, 2017 10:47:27 AM EST, lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
I chose it for the form. I have degeneration in the lower disks of my spine so lift and carry have become issues for me. This form factor is easy to lift and carry. Basically it's an 18 in cube.
Stand with your arms extended downward, palms facing in and touching your legs. Raise your arms at the elbows and pick something up. If it is too narrow, this forces your elbows out and puts pressure on your spine; if it is too wide this also forces your elbows away from your
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 05:59:56AM -0500, Russell via talk wrote: body, also causing stress. This is why plastic milk crates are the size they are, to reduce the carry load put on the back of the person carrying them.
I don't know what you mean by hard disks being behind the MB but this
unit has pretty standardized modular drive cradles. The unit can be opened on the top and sides allowing for ample illumination and access.
The planar mount tray is separate from the bottom of the case and
about 1/4 the way up from the bottom. This creates a torsion box for added rigidity. You could pick it up by the top rails with the top and sides with the handles removed and not fear over torquing the pcb.
The p/s mount is at the bottom which lowers the centre of gravity,
also good for moving the unit around. Plus extra filters for air cooling. If the p/s intake fan is on the top, you flip it over, fan down and there is a removable filter tray for dust on the bottom. If the fan is on the side by the plug end, there is an included bracket for extra fans. The whole thing is marketed as optimized for airflow. That alone wouldn't have done it, airflow is usually easily managed, just add more and bigger/better fans.
As a total package though, it fit my needs quite nicely.
Looks pretty nice actually. Power supply on the bottom is becoming somewhat common, but the cube design is certainly not as common. Don't have to lie it down to work on the motherboard or cards, which seems nice.
Fits on the upper shelf of the frankenbench with just enough room for the audio amp in the slot underneath. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1045658-REG/osd_audio_amp120_2_channe... Nice bridging mode with automatic source switching. When it senses a new signal it switches to that, makes it very versatile. It's kind of vintage so no optical input. I ordered an i7-8700 CPU. @ $487, so I'm $60 shy of my target of $1200 for the build, with no ram yet. The ram will put me 10% over estimate. Rather than monkey with the CPU down the road, I'll add in the water-cooling as well. I'll do this after I seat the parts and see what's what. So probably 15-17% over for the feature improvements and lesser physical storage on board, which is not a real issue at this time. Looks good on paper to me. We'll see how the build goes. I was never able to work on a car without scraping my knuckles, system integration is kind of like that too. Thanks for the help.
-- Len Sorensen
-- Russell