r/FormD

We finally dialed it in with two new finishes:

• Cool-Tone White (E White): Pristine, cool-toned, and completely seamless. Zero visual noise.
• Cosmic Orange: Bold, fully saturated, and high-visibility.

Because achieving this level of color parity requires incredibly strict quality control, this is a limited production run.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the interest check and provided feedback. Pre-orders are now officially live. Order Now, Ship in Mid-August!

Pre-Order Links:

• T1 V2.5 Cosmic Orange:Available Here
• T1 V2.5 E White:Available Here

Let us know what you think of the new finishes below!

Decided to do a little testing with the intention of min-maxing CPU cooling in 2 slot mode (73mm). These tests are by no means scientific, but may be useful if you're looking into either of these coolers. Tldr at the bottom.

The testing was done with a 9800x3d with a -20co undervolt (I have a per core co set up but it averages to around -20) and noctua nf-a12x25 g2 + nf-a12x15. These are synthetic all core workloads so you can expect significantly lower temps while gaming or during non-workstation use.

Also, the is-55 (stock) and sl-100 (15mm fan on bottom) required low profile ram. My ram height is ~33mm and both configs look like they can fit a couple more mm.

SL-100 fitment:

First of all, without the fan, the sl-100 comes out to 75mm in height (2mm too high). However, with the panel on, there is minimal if any flex.

Sl-100 fitment

Sl-100 with side panel on

In order to fit a 15mm fan under the sl-100, you have to remove the small bracket under the cooler. I used some long pliers to undo the screw and then the bracket just slides out.

bracket removal

SL-100 results:

• 15mm fan (under) pulling air through rad towards motherboard
  • Hits tjmax of 95°c in ~10 seconds dropping to 5ghz
• 15mm fan (under) pulling air from motherboard pushing through rad
  • Hits tjmax of 95°c in ~60 seconds dropping to 5.1ghz
• Adding a 25mm fan on top in either orientation doesn't seem to help temps/boost at all
• Only 25mm fan (top) pushing through rad towards motherboard
  • Stable 85°c maintaining max boost of 5.225ghz

In my testing, it seems like adding a 15mm fan under the SL-100 with a 25mm on top (for both orientations) actively hurts cooling performance with the cpu hitting 95°c. While, with only the 25mm fan on top, it's able to perform as expected.

Since the sl-100 can only fit with the 15mm under, I don't think its worth the effort as it doesn't perform any better than would a smaller, properly fitted, cpu cooler.

IS-55 + noctua offset fitment:

Here, I used the noctua NM-M1-MP83 offset bracket.

noctua brackets are the wide ones

The noctua cpu cooler brackets screw holes don't line up, but you can undo the is-55 brackets and switch over the tightening spring screws to the is-55 bracket. I personally just broke off the is-55 metal retainer things and for the noctuas, there's an opening so you can just slide them off and on.

noctua offset bracket

Now you just install and can set the offset.

she barely touches the m.2 cover

need short ram

is-55 + 25mm fan leaves enough mm of clearance where there is no audible turbulence against the side panel. Also, the is-55 does not come with screws for a 25mm fan. MAKE SURE to get the correct length otherwise you'll screw straight into the rad.

IS-55 results:

• 25mm fan w/o offset
  • Hits 95°c in ~60 seconds dropping to 5.1ghz
• 15mm fan w/o offset
  • Hits 95°c in ~10 seconds dropping to 4.9ghz
• 25mm fan w/ offset
  • Hits 95°c in ~5mins maintaining max boost of 5.225 forwards
• 15mm fan w/ offset
  • Hits 95°c in ~20 second sitting at 5.1ghz

The offset does seem to add a good bit of performance. It's the only way I can maintain max boost during a synthetic all core workload.

Tldr:

Sl-100 can only fit with 15mm fan under. It performs poorly don't do it. Also, don't put a 25mm on top and a 15mm under, it reduces performance significantly. Is-55 with noctua offset bracket performs better, w/ it maintains max boost w/o it drops to 5.1ghz. Also, I find the 25mm fan sound profile much more pleasing at max rpm vs the 15mm.

Hope this is useful for some people, I tried to make it as in depth as possible for fellow lurkers like me who like to tinker based on other peoples posts.

Hola, Hallo, Hello good people (most of you, I hope)! I want to share my build of the FormD T1. I know it defeats the purpose of the SFF type of case, but I've been loving it and learning a bit of 3D design and building along the way hope you guys like it.

The story behind it, if you want to know WHY I did this. Last year, with my major, I stopped using my tower to focus 100% on my life and future. This year I got curious about self-hosting not a lot of stuff, just some basics like photos, documents, and music. I looked into building a server (used computer), but I couldn't really find anything amazing. Then, while talking to a friend, he told me: "Why not use your tower?" (which I was selling). I realized that if my curiosity was so big, why not start with what I already had my PC parts and the HDD from my first PC?

So that year I watched some videos, learned a few things, and decided to try it. It was a success! The problem was the space with the size of the tower, I could not fit all the components I was hoping for, so I planned to 3D print something and build it later. But, surprise surprise, I turned out to be one of the few "mentally deranged" people who wanted to fit 2 HDDs into this case. I found a Reddit post (here) that wasn't exactly the same, but it was an inspiration.

I left my project on standby this semester, but now that I'm a bit freer, I restarted it. This time, during the semester, I bought a 3D printer on sale the bed was small, so most of the 3D files around weren't compatible, and that's how I started learning 3D design. It's been an amazing journey, and I'm falling in love with it. That brings us to today, showing off this amazing project and learning experience.

PC specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 7600
• GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 Ti
• RAM: Crucial DDR5, 2x16GB, 4800MHz
• Storage: Samsung 500GB NVMe; [forgot the brand] 2TB NVMe; Seagate 2TB SSHD
• PSU: Cooler Master V850 SFX

PS: English is not my first language, so I'm sorry if the cohesion of the text isn't the best. Sorry! :(

I found a custom mod kit being sold on Xianyu. It lets you relocate the PSU up into the top fan bracket. This opens up a straight through airflow path alongside the graphics card, and the design looked really promising.

The kit finally arrived after a two-week wait. The finished build turned out absolutely flawless. The crossbar has built-in notches to hold the power supply firmly in place.

My GPU is an RTX 5090 Ventus. I stripped off its stock shroud, then added two 12025 fans plus two 6025 auxiliary fans. Under a 600W Furmark stress test at a 25°C ambient room temperature, GPU temperature dropped from 71°C down to 67°C.

Hey everyone, I’m aware this post has been long awaited ever since my last post garnered a bunch of attention and I went MIA with updates.

This is the Optimist Venturi. As a small team of 8, we’ve essentially taken a FormD T1, and done over 20 modifications to it in order to achieve support for a RTX PRO 6000 in it.

This isn’t meant to be a self-promo (there’s no point advertising to people who will build on their own!), but you can read the full journal entry about this build here:

https://www.optimist.gg/journal/projects/introducing-venturi

We seriously hope you love it as much as we do. Cheers.

Hi, I’d like your help for a compatibility / clearance check before ordering the components of my build.

I would like to avoid any clearance issues, especially around CPU cooler, RAM and GPU.

Here is the planned build:

• Case: FormD T1 Sandwich Kit from NCASE
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
• MB: ASRock B850I Lightning WiFi
• CPU cooler: Noctua NH-L12S
• Case fans: 2x Noctua NF-A12x25
• PSU: Corsair SF850
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5 32GB (2x16GB)
• Storage: Crucial T705 1TB (I plan to add a second one later for SteamOS/Bazzite)
• GPU: ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2060 GAMING OC (this GPU is temporary, I will switch to an RX 9070 XT card later.)

I don't plan to use custom PSU cables, only the stock Corsair cables but I'm open to if you think it's important.

Does this build look safe in practice, or is there any part here that is likely to cause clearance/cable management issues? Also I’m sensitive to noise, so do you think my fans and CPU cooler are appropriate ?

I’d really appreciate feedback from people who have built in the T1 with similar parts.

Mods:
Vented Glass panels on both sides
Dual T-Grills
Zcooi vented front panel (in my case, top panel)
Zcooi Vertical stand with T-grill flush mount front and rear
Managed to fit a Noctua NF A9-14 in the vented top panel, set to exhaust
Dual 120mm Air Slimmer in the rear t-grill set to exhaust
Loque Cobalt riser in PCIE 5.0 mode
mobo offset to create additional gap
FE Travel Kit (non-flipped)

rest of build:
9800x3D
5090FE
Asus B650e-I mobo
CM Atmos with 2x Phanteks T-30s set to exhaust
64Gb Corsair Vengeance CL28 DDR5
2Tb and 4Tb Samsung 990 Pro SSDs
Corsair SF1000 PSU
Cablester custom cables

The no compromise build.

Formd T1

X870-i

5080 FE

9800X3D

AXP90 x53 CPU cooler

Thermal Grizzly contact plate and PhaseSheet

64gb Crucial Pro 6400 CL40 (I know, latency is high 😭)

1TB 980

2TB 990

Dual T30s 120mm fans

Dual TL B6B 60mm fans

AVA5 Riser

SF1000

Mods:

ZCOOI Mod custom top fan bracket, cable management bracket and PSU cables

Custom CPU fan by Henrik (SMXHeinz on Etsy)

5080 FE Formd T1 travel kit

Gold sharpie 😂

Next upgrades:

4tb Samsung 870 (for small indie titles)

2x 2tb Samsung 9100s to replace my SSDs to Gen 5

Edit: added case

3D printed these stands for my dual FormD T1s.
One is my gaming PC with an RTX 4090, the other is an Ubuntu AI box with an RTX 6000 Blackwell.
Also 3D printed the 10” rack mounts on my desk.

Finally, i have succeded to finish my build with Noctua first AIO, this is also the first SFF build that I've made. I've paid attention to the cable management so that the 25mm fan could take as much air as possible.

CPU: 9800x3d with 7mm offset and PTM 7950

GPU: Asus Prime 5070 TI

I have fitted it on the 2 slot GPU, so that i wouldn't make a custom panel for the pump, since it would have been useless. Now i am able to cut the side panel of the GPU and the temperature would still be low.

I think this is the best configuration if you want to fit the Noctua AIO in the Formd T1 with very OK temps.

The case panels closes very easily, as designed.

In working/gaming sessions i have around 80 degrees C on CPU and 65 C on GPU. Rams and SSDs temperature are ok, both around 50-60 C. These temperatures are with the CPU side panel on, and the GPU side panel off completely.

Finally got a restock notification for the vented glass panels and jumped on it. Current parts list:

B650e-i
7800x3d
AXP90-X47
4070 Super FE
SF750

Waiting on custom cables and will install a SF1000 for a GPU upgrade path

https://preview.redd.it/oi0xucpiiu9h1.jpg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10f8ee28f757375ba1774fbc96cf320aab0bd461

https://preview.redd.it/vc7tby4jiu9h1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3b31ff5f34ad2db9aa1eba4ca50efd618954184

https://preview.redd.it/rmdwcznjiu9h1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9a49120f5f52b062cedf3be601cfa0cb3018648

Anyone interested in a customed version of T1 front panel with the ROG Ryuo III Matrix Display integrated？ Just a side project to make my T1 looks a bit fancier lol. The housing for validation is done, next will move to production of the front panel + the kit

My customer front grill panel from Zcooi arrived for my T1 case. Also decided to show it off with the top T grill from FormD. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but still wanted to show off what it looked like.

I have a ASUS ROG Loki SFX-L 850W Platinum PSU, and it has great quality cables. The problem is the length. I had to shoehorn the cables into the case to really make it fit even with good cable management. I’m going to order some CableMod PSU cables and need recommendations for how to properly measure the length needed for each cable. What method(s) do you use for precise or decent measurements?

Parts:

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B850-I Gaming WiFi AMD AM5
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6
PSU: ASUS ROG Loki SFX-L 850W Platinum
SSD: WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming (x2 for 4TB total)
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MT/s CL30-38-38-96 1.35V
CPU Cooler: Thermalright AXP90 X47 Full Low Profile CPU Cooler
Fans: (2x) Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.Black.swap, Quiet Premium Fan, 4-pin (120 mm, Black)
CPU Fan: Noctua NF-A9x14 HS-PWM chromax.Black.swap, Premium Quiet Slim Fan, 4-Pin (92x14mm, Black)