ITX form factor sucks a sack of donkey balls, prove me wrong.
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Irrelevant;
There are mATX cases that are just a bit bigger, but provide you with more slots for your drives, which I suppose is important?
https://www.rosewill.com/product/rosewill-fbm-05-dual-fan-micro-atx-mini-tower-computer-case/ -
HTPC:
Irrelevant again;
Plenty of mATX cases that are compact enough to fit into surroundings. Cube-ish form factor cases won't take that much more space than ITX, as long as heigh fits, which it should:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/YLDzK8/silverstone-case-sstsg11b -
http://www.cooltek.de/en/jonsbo/c-series/126/c2 12.10L mATX, is that close enough?
Since when ITX boards have 4 RAM slots, or multiple PCIe x16 slots, or components of rather good quality?
ITX boards are farm more restricting than needed. Want more memory? Buy new kit.
Want to expand your storage? Buy big capacity, expensive drives. Want to have good cooling without having to go AIO route? You're shit out of luck.
If you keep your build on the table with no height restrictions, the case can be 1 meter tall, it won't really matter. If you keep it in cupboard, then yes, every milimeter counts -
Don't think I hate just ITX cases. Something like this makes little sense to me as well, althought fully silent (if you opt in for SSD storage only) build does sounds attractive:
https://streacom.com/products/fc5-alpha-fanless-chassis/ -
Okay, what's the price difference between 8x2 and 4x2 kits?
Multiple PCIe sockets:
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#f=2&l=1000&s=33&sort=price&page=1 -
i only need one picture:
Fujitsu Scaleo C with new internals. Only possible with ITX
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Let's say you need 16GB for now, fine, you get 2x8 kit.
But what if you need another 16GB 2 years later due to crappy Windows? You have to get rid of your existing 16GB kit and buy a new 32GB kit. If your motherboard had 4 slots, you could simly get another 16GB kit.
P.S. Damn, I really don't think this case was a success:
https://www.nzxt.com/products/manta-matte-black
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The problem with most itx cases are that they are just as big as matx, which is why you might think that itx is pointless.
But if you get a truly itx case then it is a whole different story.
Like when you get a case that is just as big as the motherboard:
(yes that fan is the stock cpu cooler fan)
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But I am still yet to see a reasonable argument for ITX form factor.
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There are mATX cases that are just a bit bigger, but provide you with more slots for your drives, which I suppose is important?
That's a pretty piss poor example of more slots for drives. The LIAN LI PC-Q26 was a Mini-ITX case that could hold 10 hard drives.
QuoteBut what if you need another 16GB 2 years later due to crappy Windows? You have to get rid of your existing 16GB kit and buy a new 32GB kit. If your motherboard had 4 slots, you could simly get another 16GB kit.
If you look into the pro-sumer server market you could buy the ASRock Rack C2750D4I or it's little brother the 2550. They use a BGA Avoton 8 & 4 core CPU respectively and each come with 12 sata ports and 4 DIMM slots. It's a great little board for a OP NAS.
There are also socketed Mini-ITX boards that support denser memory or even use SO-DIMM modules. If you have 16GB and need more but you occupied all your slots already then that's just poor planning on your part.