ASRock M8 Mini-ITX Barebones Gaming PC Review

[Crashman]

Hay I do plan on purchasing this but I am unable to find the Xigmatek Janus. I've read great reviews but I can't find it for sale anywhere. Is this no longer in production or has it not been released yet?

If it's no longer an option, or wont be for quite some time, are there any other CPU coolers that are good for a case like this?

It's new. I've only been able to find them for sale in Asia. One seller in Singapore ships to the US.

 

[eecer]

Hay I do plan on purchasing this but I am unable to find the Xigmatek Janus. I've read great reviews but I can't find it for sale anywhere. Is this no longer in production or has it not been released yet?

If it's no longer an option, or wont be for quite some time, are there any other CPU coolers that are good for a case like this?

It's new. I've only been able to find them for sale in Asia. One seller in Singapore ships to the US.

Thank you very much! Do you happen to have a link for the site that you purchased it from? Also do you have any other recommendations for coolers that will fit in the case?

 

[Crashman]

Hay I do plan on purchasing this but I am unable to find the Xigmatek Janus. I've read great reviews but I can't find it for sale anywhere. Is this no longer in production or has it not been released yet?

If it's no longer an option, or wont be for quite some time, are there any other CPU coolers that are good for a case like this?

It's new. I've only been able to find them for sale in Asia. One seller in Singapore ships to the US.

Thank you very much! Do you happen to have a link for the site that you purchased it from? Also do you have any other recommendations for coolers that will fit in the case?

Tom's Hardware will soon publish a comparison of small air coolers, thanks for asking!

 

[eecer]

Hay I do plan on purchasing this but I am unable to find the Xigmatek Janus. I've read great reviews but I can't find it for sale anywhere. Is this no longer in production or has it not been released yet?

If it's no longer an option, or wont be for quite some time, are there any other CPU coolers that are good for a case like this?

It's new. I've only been able to find them for sale in Asia. One seller in Singapore ships to the US.

Thank you very much! Do you happen to have a link for the site that you purchased it from? Also do you have any other recommendations for coolers that will fit in the case?

Tom's Hardware will soon publish a comparison of small air coolers, thanks for asking!

Awesome to hear! Thanks for all the help, and your review was fantastic! Just what I needed to decide whether or not to purchase it.

 

[eecer]

So I do have one final question, you decided to make the bottom in and the top our, but did you consider or test making all the fans be intake? Not sure if that would cause too much pressure and end up increasing the heat, or if that would help the cooling even more. I am considering doing the testing myself but am worried that this will void my warranty and I wouldn't want that.

 

[Kevin Morrison]

So I do have one final question, you decided to make the bottom in and the top our, but did you consider or test making all the fans be intake? Not sure if that would cause too much pressure and end up increasing the heat, or if that would help the cooling even more. I am considering doing the testing myself but am worried that this will void my warranty and I wouldn't want that.

The idea is to expel the heat, it does not matter how much cool air you bring in, if you do not exhaust the heat that is generated you risk your components. There will be no pressure unless you are trying to create an air tight enclosure but even then the air will escape back out the fan openings once the pressure exceeds the volume that the fans can produce.

 

[Nichismo]

The heat issues in this article are exaggerated Or varying as my own experiences with owning this product have been much different. I have run prime 95 quite a few times with just a stock Intel cooler from the same i7 CPU and I never went over 77C, and this was immediately after applying thermal paste and installing the fan. I have yet to even come close to that through typical use and I wont be purchasing any new fans unless I decide to overclock.

 

[Crashman]

The heat issues in this article are exaggerated Or varying as my own experiences with owning this product have been much different. I have run prime 95 quite a few times with just a stock Intel cooler from the same i7 CPU and I never went over 77C, and this was immediately after applying thermal paste and installing the fan. I have yet to even come close to that through typical use and I wont be purchasing any new fans unless I decide to overclock.

The results are completely accurate, even though the test load was extraordinarily high. If you've never tried eight threads of AVX-enabled Prime95, you wouldn't even believe that it adds like 20° to most of our test systems.

 

[ArdentlyCore]

I'm installing the backplate of the Zalman cnps 8900 extreme, but there seems to be another backplate that's already on the motherboard that's interfering with the placement of the new one. Am I missing something? Should I remove this previously installed backplate? I didn't use the double sided sticky tape and loading block because the directions said socket 1155 didn't need it, though it said nothing about socket 1150 I'm using with the i7 4770k, Haswell core. Help!?!?!

 

[Onus]

Rather than hijack this old thread, please begin a new one of your own. Thanks.