Installation Impressions

Given the RVZ01's unique design, we gave the user manual a once over and we suggest you practise the same as it will likely help salve time. There are a number of steps that need to exist washed in a precise order to avert redoing the same job.

Silverstone suggests that the user offset remove all the screws from the graphics card bracket besides equally the power supply cage. Betwixt the two you are looking at having to remove a total of ten screws and the iv around the power supply muzzle are quite difficult to remove and even harder to put dorsum. If yous wish to install an SSD on the centre brace, it is also recommended that this be removed also.

At this indicate, nosotros tin can now install the motherboards I/O shield along with the motherboard itself.

With the power supply cage out of the system, nosotros installed a 3.5" drive on top of it, a Seagate 3TB NAS to exist precise. With the difficult drive installed on top of the cage, you can also get ahead and install the power supply.

Silverstone supplied the ST45SF-Yard which is 450 watt SFX ability supply, the most powerful unit y'all can become in this course factor as far as we are aware. Proceed in mind the RVZ01 does not come with a ability supply and then the user is complimentary to option their own unit, though nosotros highly recommend the modular ST45SF-G at an additional cost of $95.

This gold-certified PSU features 100% modular cables, a 450w continuous power output at 40 degrees for 24/7 operation. Its single +12V@37A runway can handle a pretty high-end GPU and comes with a single 8-pin or dual six-pin PCIe connectors.

With the 3.5" hard drive and ability supply installed, we connected up the 3-pin extension ability cord to the power supply and slot the cage into place.

For this build, we used the Asrock Z87E-ITX which is a highly capable Mini-ITX motherboard that supports the 4th generation Intel Core processors. Before installing this motherboard, you must first add the CPU and CPU libation, assuming rear access to the motherboard is required.

Given the size restraints of this case there is no rear access to the motherboard once installed so we had to position the NT06-Pro before installing the motherboard. This makes irresolute CPUs a lengthy and difficult job, though luckily this isn't something you should have to do frequently.

From in that location we configured the graphics card bracket which gives the pick of installing a pair of 2.5" drives, a slim optical drive and a full length PCIe graphics bill of fare. We paired the Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB and the WD Black2 -- random, I know -- aslope the Silverstone SST-SOD02 slim optical drive and Palit GeForce GTX 760 graphics card.

It is worth noting that several users have reported running a Radeon R9 290 successfully from the Silverstone ST45SF-Thousand power supply. Since we saw a maximum load consumption when gaming of 350 watts with the R9 290 and Cadre i7-4770K in our review, this should exist doable for the 450w ST45SF-G.

With the graphics carte du jour subclass configured, information technology was merely a matter of neatly installing all the power and data cables before sticking the superlative cover console dorsum on.