Guys i had said before i wanted to put my MS-01 to a bigger box and i finally did it
In specific i bought this case
Raijintek Ophion Mini Tower. The reason for this case was after extensive searching, that it had the motherboard almost in the center of the box and with that you are able to have air in the back side also where are the SSD's.
This case needs a 15mm height 120mm fan in the bottom to feed air, where i bought an
NOCTUA NF-A12X15 FLX FAN 120MM and at the top i installed a normal Noctua 120mm.
In the Case i just drilled a bit from the back top where the MB whole is, so the MS-01 without the external sleeve, just slided in there perfectly.
Now the nice part is not this.. its what i did with the 1 Pci slot of the machine. I had bought the Multiplexer card that some said its working here (and it worked fine) and this one in specific
Dual NVMe PCIe Adapter,M.2 NVMe SSD to PCI-E 3.1 X8/X16 Card Support M.2 (M Key) NVMe SSD 22110/2280/2260/2242
and on this card i had put 2 x m.2 cards
The 1st is a
M.2 M Key NVMe External Graphics Card Stand Holder 64Gbs Full Speed with PCIe 4.0 x4 Booster Cable R43SG Upgraded for Graphics Card 1660 Top (50 cm K43SG) where on it i installed my Radeon 6400
The 2nd is a
M.2 to Renesas USB3 card from Delock. I needed the Renesas chipset to be certain that will work in ESXI.
Also i bought an 750w SFX PSU to feed the R43SG card and to have power if i need for a bigger GFX Card. Atm i have a Radeon 6400 on the machine and doesnt need extra power. But the SFX power supply gave me also the well needed molex and sata power cables because have of the cards i did put in the machine and the fans needed extra power (i dont feed the fan from the extra PSU yet because i cannot control their speed).
Now, when the machine starts, the RS43SG auto starts also the extra power supply and all is fine.
I havent found yet the best way to start the MS-01 since its inside a bigger box... ok i can start it with Wol of course but i have a spare
SwitchBot that i can put it in the button but also i can find a way to connect the original Ophion Case button, to the MS-01 button but havent had the time yet to do it.
Guys the temps of the CPU dropped at idle to +5 to +7 of the ambient temperature and in full load i dont exceed the 68c. Also my 2 NVMEs and the 1 PM983 never pass the 59c no matter what i do so i am completely happy with that.
Another thing that i gain now is that because i did managed to install as i explained a Renesas USB3 card in the machine, i can easily now install ESXI for my Windows VM with the GFX Passthrough but i stay like this for now since i am ok with Proxmox.
I will post some photos tommorow, and i still need to put inside the machine something to be able to controll the fan speeds. I have a Corsair iCue controller and a 5.25 controller also where both have temp sensors and you can do fan curves etc according to temperature, but i havent decided yet what i will put inside. Atm the fans are just getting power from a usb of the machine at 5V so they work at low speed but its fine.
I am pretty happy really with the overall result even if it did cost a ton more money than to buy and build a normal pc.. but where is the fan in that?