Do you hook up your power and HDD case LED's?

[Guest]

Just curious if most people bother hooking these up.

 

[clutchc]

Of course. Why wouldn't you?

 

[Guest]

Because the video card won't go all the way down in the slot if I do.

 

[clutchc]

Because the video card won't go all the way down in the slot if I do.

What motherboard is that? Are you adding a 2nd gfx card, and the slot puts the card directly over the FP header?

 

[Guest]

Yeah. C7Z87-OCE board.

 

[clutchc]

Yeah. C7Z87-OCE board.

Yikes! They put the front panel header in the worse possible location for using a 2nd gfx card, didn't they. Poor design. I'm afraid I have no solution for that problem. Most boards would set the header at the bottom of the board to keep that from happening.

 

[Guest]

Well, it's actually the third slot that has the problem. Unfortunately, if I put the card in the 2nd slot, then the top card starts pushing over 85C. But if I use the 1st and 3rd slots, then both cards stay under 80C. Turns out I can hook up the power LED (barely clears), but not the HDD LED. So I guess it's not that much of a loss.

 

[clutchc]

What gfx card(s) are you using? The 3rd slot may only be x4 lanes. http://www.supermicro.com/a_images/products/X10/Z87/C7Z87-OCE_spec_features.jpg

 

[Guest]

Pair of r9-280's. And yeah, the 3rd slot runs at x4, although that's not a big deal for my uses.

If I had it to go over again, I would have bought cards with reference coolers so I could put them next to each other. But as long as I don't mind losing the HDD LED, this seems to work OK.