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Any other suggestions for a replacement cooler that'd work well with airflow across the motherboard ?
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POSTSCRIPT on Fitting the Big Shuriken, 16 July 2009
After this review was posted, some forum members noted that a promotional photo from Scythe showed the Big Shuriken mounted on a Zotac 9300-ITX board and wondered why SPCR could not replicate this. The following response from a Scythe contact clarifies this matter:
Big Shuriken on the Mini-ITX Zotac is more of a joke from one of our tech/support person in Japan, he told me it worked perfectly fine in his experiment, but in order to mount the Big Shuriken, you need to dismount the chipset heatsink, mount the Big Shuriken and then mount the chipset heatsink again.
So if you're willing to do this, I'd venture to say the BS will work fine on a system similar to our test setup here.
Can you be a bit more specific? I'm looking to do exactly this setup, since no other CPU cooler also provides adequate (and quiet) GPU cooling.QO wrote:I just got an ISK with a Zotac 630 and a Big Shuriken. For those looking @ getting something similar, you might want to rethink it!
The Big Shurken will only fit if you modify the DVD bay (i.e chop off half of the back end) OR you take off the fan, rotate, and zip tie it @ a angle to avoid parts of the bay
Actually, I'm probably going to forgo the Big Shuriken. The temperatures, I see in Speedfan are surprisingly low (maybe I got lucky). But to answer your questions, the fan on the Big Shuriken coincides with the part circled in red (pic below). From what I experienced, the Big Shuriken should fit if that bit of the drive cage is cut off. I would leave the other side of the cage intact to provide stability for the DVD/HDD. Also, the DVD drive should fit just fine. The other alternative I was talking about is shown in green, where the fan is rotated, and probably zip tied.candre23 wrote: Can you be a bit more specific?...
I actually typed it up a few days ago, but a thunderstorm restarted my computer before I could post itreboot wrote: Oh, yes please. I'll be looking forward to see those numbers.
(Maybe a few benchmarks too?)
Thanks for the pic. I'm still going to give it a go by cutting away part of the drive cage. Since I will be using the Zotac 9300 ITX motherboard and the GPU gets pretty hot, I need a cooler that will blow air directly on it. The Big Shuriken looks to be the only cooler for the job.QO wrote:Actually, I'm probably going to forgo the Big Shuriken. The temperatures, I see in Speedfan are surprisingly low (maybe I got lucky). But to answer your questions, the fan on the Big Shuriken coincides with the part circled in red (pic below).
Found this info elsewhere on this same board. Damn me.Parappaman wrote:Hello, long time reader here, first time poster!![]()
I'd like to know if there is any way to mount a single 3,5" hard drive inside this case instead of the two standard 2,5" ones.
I just built something similar with this case. No pics yet as it's a work in progress.Merlinen wrote: Zotac 9300 (have)
E7200 (have)
Scythe BIG Shuriken (in the post office)
WD 320gb black 2.5" (have)
Sony Optiarc BC-5600S (on the way)
Antec ISK 300 (searching for it)
PicoPSU tx150 (have)
I had the same dilemma, because I wasn't sure if I wanted the computer to be switched on 24/7 and act as a server/leecher or use it as a pure HTPC.Parappaman wrote:Found this info elsewhere on this same board. Damn me.Parappaman wrote:Hello, long time reader here, first time poster!![]()
I'd like to know if there is any way to mount a single 3,5" hard drive inside this case instead of the two standard 2,5" ones.![]()
Well, now all that I need to do is deciding between the Atom boards or the more powerful and power-hungry 775 ones... not an easy task!
I have hade 4 slot-in drives before, and none of them hade any problems like that, this is the first blu-ray.mark314 wrote:I just built something similar with this case. No pics yet as it's a work in progress.Merlinen wrote: Zotac 9300 (have)
E7200 (have)
Scythe BIG Shuriken (in the post office)
WD 320gb black 2.5" (have)
Sony Optiarc BC-5600S (on the way)
Antec ISK 300 (searching for it)
PicoPSU tx150 (have)
Zotac 9300
E7300
Stock cooling, for now
OCZ Vertex 30Gb
Sony Optiarc BC-5600S
stock 65W power supply
Be careful with the slot blu-ray. Don't tighten the screws all the way, otherwise it won't eject. You have to tighten and then give them each two full twists to loosen. If it does jam, it's too tight. What I found was, sometimes it would eject and then not recognize that it had ejected, so that you couldn't put a new disk inside. My fix was to press the eject button as I pushed in a new disk.
Apart from that, cable clutter at the moment, but my PicoPSU 150W is on the way!
I did hear it from about 3m when i was sitting in my soffa, and it was spining in about ~1000rpm, but then i am realy picky about sound.reboot wrote:Really?Merlinen wrote: But i have re-place the stock cooler, way to noisy and dosen't cool the chippset.![]()
I don't hear it at all (It's an E5200)
Reviewers on Newegg had the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... &Tpk=5600sMerlinen wrote:I have hade 4 slot-in drives before, and none of them had any problems like that, this is the first blu-ray.
The stock cooler for the E7300, which I am using, is really loud. It goes full speed when in my shelf, with the case lid *off*. The case lid is staying off, for now, because otherwise the CPU will sit in the 50-60 C when in use.Merlinen wrote:I did hear it from about 3m when i was sitting in my soffa, and it was spining in about ~1000rpm, but then i am realy picky about sound.reboot wrote:Really?Merlinen wrote: But i have re-place the stock cooler, way to noisy and dosen't cool the chippset.![]()
I don't hear it at all (It's an E5200)
Well that's the point, you could really go with the Zotac w/Atom even for a HTPC station, as the good OC it provides will make it suitable even to 1080p (2.5 GHz and beyond, with the latest bios which allows CPU overvolting... that's really not bad!).reboot wrote:I had the same dilemma, because I wasn't sure if I wanted the computer to be switched on 24/7 and act as a server/leecher or use it as a pure HTPC.Parappaman wrote:Found this info elsewhere on this same board. Damn me.Parappaman wrote:Hello, long time reader here, first time poster!![]()
I'd like to know if there is any way to mount a single 3,5" hard drive inside this case instead of the two standard 2,5" ones.![]()
Well, now all that I need to do is deciding between the Atom boards or the more powerful and power-hungry 775 ones... not an easy task!
At the last minute I decided I just wanted an HTPC, so I went for a 775, instead the Atom.