Hardware My Goal for 2016: Building a modern NES PC.

[Joe88]

you should probably go with a flexible riser card that way you can put it in any way you want and will take up less room

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Thanks, I'm well-aware. That's why I went with the riser card, to keep stuff fitting nice. Same with the m.2 SSD vs a Sata one.

Actually, that's why I said that specifically, you may not need it. That particular graphics card is half-height and may fit better upright than it would on the side lol

you should probably go with a flexible riser card that way you can put it in any way you want and will take up less room

+1 for that suggestion

I suppose we'll see when you get your parts in. I'm excited for the coming days. I'm also excited to see if this might allow more people to open up and post their own build logs

 

[Zaide]

You'll probably want to swap the PCI-E riser for a ribbon cable. I have an ITX build in the RVZ01 case which comes with a rigid riser and I had to swap it out for a flexible ribbon cable because I ran out of room for the CPU cooler. You run out of space fast in these ITX builds.

 

[Jayro]

Anyone able to suggest a solid built flexible riser? I find ones that look flimsy. Price is no object here.

 

[Zaide]

This is the one I bought: http://www.amazon.com/Express-Riser-Extender-Flexible-Extension/dp/B008BZBFTG
It looks cheap, but it gets the job done. Never given me any problems.

 

[Luckkill4u]

What's the plan for ventilation? I'd say cut a few more slits for vents on the bottom then put a small fan one one side and a discreet radiator on the other with the mobo on top. OR just go with a slim fan cooler but where is the in that? 750ti on the top vent of course.

 

[Jayro]

What's the plan for ventilation? I'd say cut a few more slits for vents on the bottom then put a small fan one one side and a discreet radiator on the other with the mobo on top. OR just go with a slim fan cooler but where is the in that? 750ti on the top vent of course.

Outtake fan in the black vent area on top, and an intake fan in the bottom.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Outtake fan in the black vent area on top, and an intake fan in the bottom.

You should also see if you can cut out the area that used to house the RCA ports on the side and stick an 80mm fan in there.

Also, I believe I've come up with a solution for fitting your graphics card in with a flexible PCI-E extender: electrical tape the shit out of the back of the board to create a custom anti-static backplate and mount it under the motherboard. That way, if you cut slits in the bottom, you get ventilation in to cool the card and ventilation out at the top for the CPU cooler, plus ventilation in from the new 80mm fan that would provide positive air pressure in the case

 

[Jayro]

I don't like using hacky solutions like tape and glue. I'd rather mount things with screws, nuts, bolts, etc.

 

[DarkGabbz]

http://www.amazon.com/Tomee-NES-Ret...0HM3QCN2/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_sims?ie=UTF8 for nes emulation you could swap the nes controller ports with something like that

 

[Jayro]

Wow, that's cheap, and would save me a lot of soldering. Thanks!

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I don't like using hacky solutions like tape and glue. I'd rather mount things with screws, nuts, bolts, etc.

I do too, but you'd need to insert something between the video card and the motherboard to make sure they don't short each other out

 

[Jayro]

I do too, but you'd need to insert something between the video card and the motherboard to make sure they don't short each other out

Oh very true, I have a lot of plastic to work with here, so that will be easy to shim.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Oh very true, I have a lot of plastic to work with here, so that will be easy to shim.

True. You do have a lot more room vertically than horizontally

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Hey, are you sure that motherboard supports 32GB of RAM?

Edit: No, it doesn't. It also doesn't support that particular length of m.2 drive that you picked out. Would you like me to generate a new part list for your needs (based on what you've written so far?)

 

[Jayro]

Oh very tr

I do too, but you'd need to insert something between the video card and the motherboard to make sure they don't short each other out

E, I have a lot of plastic to work with here, so that will be easy to

Hey, are you sure that motherboard supports 32GB of RAM?

Edit: No, it doesn't. It also doesn't support that particular length of m.2 drive that you picked out. Would you like me to generate a new part list for your needs (based on what you've written so far?)

Yes please, and I made sure the z97 chipset supported 32gb of ram... Weird.

 

[Joe88]

its not so much the chipset, its more the motherboard bios and being able to support a 16GB stick per slot

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97I-GAMING-ACK.html#hero-specification
says max supported is 16GB but is that 16GB per slot or 2x 8GB sticks...

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Yes please, and I made sure the z97 chipset supported 32gb of ram... Weird.

z97 does, but only if there's four slots I believe

Would you like to stay with a Haswell processor or use one of the new Skylake ones?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

its not so much the chipset, its more the motherboard bios and being able to support a 16GB stick per slot

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/Z97I-GAMING-ACK.html#hero-specification
says max supported is 16GB but is that 16GB per slot or 2x 8GB sticks...

I got the feeling it meant 16 total. PCPP also complained at me when I was putting it all into a part list for the heck of it, which is why I asked the question initially

 

[thisisallowed]

Oh very tr

E, I have a lot of plastic to work with here, so that will be easy to

Yes please, and I made sure the z97 chipset supported 32gb of ram... Weird.

So get a simple H110 board and an I5 6500. That does support 32GB