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Water cooled Fractal Terra with sound card and 3d printed breakout module (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by alleycat to c/sffpc

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Hi! Here is my "cheater" build for the Fractal Terra case:

Components 
Case: Fractal Design Terra
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d
GPU: RTX4080SUPER with Bykski water block
PSU: Corsair SF1000, 1kW
Mainboard: Asus Rog Strix B650E-I Gaming Wifi
Sound Card: ESI MAYA44ex
External Cooler: Mo-Ra IV 400

I designed and 3d printed a carrier for the sound card, which is now piggybacking on the water block of the GPU. It is connected to the Mainboard via a M.2 breakout cable and M.2 to PCIe-adapter. I get 1ms latency in Guitar Rig 7.

The water cooler is controlled and powered by the mainboard via a breakout module, which connects to the PSU and the pwm outputs of the cpu fan and aio connectors on the mainboard.

The whole setup is entirely inaudible even under full load (like rendering in Blender3d).

Edit: corrected a typo: it's a 4080Super, not a 5080

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

What are you using on the other end of the HDMI? I found that most monitors have some pretty mediocre DACs. The only things that have good DACs are AV receivers which I don't really feel like needing to power up just to run some headphones/desk speakers.

I've been using a USB DAC and more recently a dedicated AMP for a while now and that works great for me.