AmmoJammo

HDD is mounted backwards and moved slightly forward, with the front panel hiding all the cables.

Thanks! I spent HOURS trying to find a cooler that I thought could work, stumbled across the Silverstone, and found one BNIB, on ebay, from 2009!

It has two 80mm intake fans on the bottom, and two 70mm exhaust fans on the rear - its all I could fit! There's also a card reader in the front, and the original front USB ports are functional (the audio aren't, yet, I may eventually wire them up) I don't really like the CPU+Molex to PCIe power adapter I made, but it'll do for now!

I clearly had nothing better to do, So I proceeded to design a new replacement rear panel for a Shuttle XPC case, to house a Mini ITX motherboard, and 2 slot graphics card. The prototype of the rear panel was 3d printed, and bent, to make sure the bend dimensions were correct, with the final version being made as an aluminium PCB (in China) that I then folded using a vise and hammer... It's running an old SilverStone NT01-E cooler, retrofitted to the AM4 CPU. Specs aren't overly impressive, but its about the limit of the current 300 watt Seasonic PSU. Ryzen 5600G RTX 3050 16gig of whatever ram was cheapest 500gb Samsung 980 2tb 3.5inch - something..

Perfect! I have no idea why I'm bothering with this.. haha

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/coolers/NT01-E/ Hmm...

oooo... now to try and find one for an ok price, in Australia...

It's an 80mm, It's the smallest I could find 120mm won't fit anywhere. It's a 5600G. Worst case, I just add a better fan. I had seen that. I was considering 3d printing a shroud to adapt from a 92mm AIO to the two rear 70mm fans.. but this is a last resort, as I'm still not sure it'll fit..

Does anyone know of an 80mm tower cooler, that will fit an AM4 socket, and can be easily rotated 90 degrees? Basically, I'm a sadistic b*stard, and as a result, my Flex ATX power supply sits over the edge of the board, and will foul with most/all coolers. I haven't ruled out cutting fins off the heatsink... I've spent way too long trying to work out where things can fit, but I'm seriously considering rearranging them again. Thanks for any ideas!

I built a wooden PC once... excuse the potato quality!

I'd like to see benchmark scores to compare it to my 2004 rig ;)