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Unbelievable... Why would anyone want to throw more money at Valve? We're already STUCK within the walled garden called Steam.

Can you simply take your games with you if you decide to leave? Nope. Please people, please, stick with Steam on the PC as there's little to zero need for this.

P.S. Toms... You STILL haven't reviewed the Surface Pro 2.
 
Where would one find the Azza Z? is it listed on the company website? googling Azza Z brings up some junk music and some random COD player. I would absolutely love that case, or the new raven mini case.
 


I can't , my net reached its full speed traffic limit Friday before SteamOS was released and now its working at a veeeeery slooooow speed....only go to full speed again next week Monday.
 
How much does it matter when they're replacing the riser on retail cases? Azza is a case manufacturer: The flexible link is a temporary solution until they get someone else to supply the rigid riser, and the article states this.
 
i just came here to say that the advertising (ads) on this particular article remind me of 2001. Constant popups. I hate to use ad block because the web developers and content creators deserve to be paid, but you guys seriously made me reconsider taking you off my whitelist.
 
First off that power supply is total junk.. Wth. But the rest of it will rock even if you put an I5 in it.. Go with a very large ssd for the main drive and you are set.
I have been building lots of i5's lately and they benchmark up around my 3770k which was surprising.
 
What makes it junk?

 
I love when TH does articles like this. Looks like a really sweet system at a very nice size. Should fit a home entertainment system very nicely.

One question: So the contest builds also include the flexible riser, correct? Could that create any long-term reliability issues and would someone be able to order a solid riser card from Azza after they start shipping retail versions of the case?
 
The temporary solution appears solid, but I have no additional information.

 

Cool. Thanks for the reply.
 
posting after reading the ava direct mini cube article. imo, the smaller form factor power supplies would immensely benefit from modular, ribbon cables - more than their mainstream counterparts do.
edit: may be bundle shorter cables by default and add an option for longer cables for extra price.
 
Yes, the cables are typically around 1-2 inches shorter on retail-branded SFX power supplies, and are still far too long for the enclosures they serve. They need to be around half as long as PS2 cables. And often they could be 1/4 the length. I'm thinking 9" for main power and 12" for the last connector on drive power should be sufficient for 99% of the SFX-powered cases on the market.

The slightly shorter cables and the slightly smaller power supply did help uncrowd this case a little, but not as much as it should have.

 
13.5*17.3*4.4 I was a little upset that we couldn't get it down to 12.5 x 13.5 x 4 max, but it's the only slim riser case we COULD get.

These used to be common but are no more, and other editors are part of the problem. Ten years ago many praised motherboard companies for moving the graphics slot down one space for the sake of DIMM clearance, but that caused compatibility issues in riser card cases. By the time Mini ITX motherboards made their way into performance machines, riser-card cases had mostly disappeared.

Mini ITX solves the compatibility issue by getting rid of the option to move the graphics slot. And a new generation of buyers are starting to realize the benefits of a riser card towards slim case design. There's nothing truly new here, just reemergence of former good ideas that were cast aside by careless reviewers.

No reviewer is immune from bad advice though. Ten years ago I criticized Asus for moving to the Intel-standard front-panel header, because most of the cases back then had 3-pin power LED connectors. And so they went back to their old pin header. But now that "everyone except Asus" is using Intel's front-panel header connector, Asus is the only one preventing case manufacturers from going to a one-piece connector for power/reset/hdd-led/pwr-led.
 
Valve has specified 1TB for multiple game installs. They really want you to install VERY MANY games.

 
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