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  1. Here you go - will use flatter 90 degree cables to make sure the case closes if I am not loading it hard Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
  2. Hello to all, and let me take my turn and say thank you to everybody for spending all the time and effort to make things plug & play for the rest of us ;-) My very painless experience has been the following - following @Tech Inferno Fan's suggestion for the recommended setup, I used: - Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 + nVidia WebDriver-343.01.02f01 (+ cudadriver-6.5.25-macos) - Akitio2 + Zotac GTX970 (ZT-90101-10P), i.e. the short one which fits like a glove to the chassis after taking out the card's shroud and the small fan in the from of the akitio box - Corsair RM450 to power everything using the "paperclip" trick - so 2x 6pin PCIe + an extra 12V/GND lead from the psu into a 5.5mm x 2.5mm barrel plug that I ordered online @ kenable.co.uk (1 x 5.5 x 2.5mm Right Angle DC Power Solder Plug End For Power Cables (PSG01952) = £0.55 for anyone interested) - No risers, m/b soldering or other ugliness beyond that - seems the 970 with the 2 6pin connectors is not hitting any wattage constraints stemming from the akitio PCIe slot 25W limit After assembling the hardware in the chassis and soldering the barrel plug, all I had to do was patch the latest nvidia drivers for Yosemite 10.10.1 (very easy - as described elsewhere in this thread), plug in, re-start and presto! (ok I had to restart a couple of times as my monitor is a bit funny - 4K Samsung U28D590 now working smoothly @ 60Hz using DP1.2) Comments: a) the chassis is really well made so for all the form-factor sensitive people out there, it is definitely worth the cost+effort. the zotac card with the stock vbios is literally silent, the fans are turning but completely inaudible at idle, there is no coil whine at all and the only sound under load is the usual low frequency clicking electric sounds cards usually make as the fans remain relatively quiet c) combined with the RM450 which doesn't turn on the fan (except under sustained heavy load) the whole setup is very silent! d) I run the usual benchmarks, unigine heaven as well as a bitcoin miner to "heat" things up, nothing crashed after 30+ mins. e) The only thing that bugs me is that as soon as the laptop enters power saving mode and tries to shut off, the machine locks up with the screens blank and the laptop fans working 100% as it must enter some infinite loop - surely a driver bug ... any ideas welcome but in the meantime I have ticked the box in settings to prevent the laptop from sleeping I haven't subjected the whole thing to 10+ hours of overclocked 100% utilisation so could be I hit some bumps later on but so far all good .. will keep everyone posted if I get any instabilities..
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