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Mini-ITX Case suggestions for water cooling

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Hey,

I want to build a Mini-ITX for university this year, I'm trying to find a case that allows me to have a full-size GPU and a proper water cooled CPU cooler.

I am also trying to avoid any large boxy cases.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Cheers,

Ryth

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What's your budget?  Proper ITX cases that house what you're asking are not cheap.

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Phantooks Evolv mini-itx (kind of cheating because it sadly is quite big for mini-itx)

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1 hour ago, Smiffy_ said:

I want to build a Mini-ITX for university this year, I'm trying to find a case that allows me to have a full-size GPU and a proper water cooled CPU cooler.

What Size CPU cooler, and your budget/location?

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Not sure if its to big for your purpose but the Inwin A1 is 20 liters and holds both watercooling and full size gpu.

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unless you reaaaaaaaaaally want an itx because it is small I would go with a dan case. Otherwise, i would try to be smarter about it and with a fractal design micro atx which about the size of my itx phanteks enthoo evolv tg

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9 hours ago, Smiffy_ said:

Hey,

I want to build a Mini-ITX for university this year, I'm trying to find a case that allows me to have a full-size GPU and a proper water cooled CPU cooler.

I am also trying to avoid any large boxy cases.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

There are none because of size restrictions, those cases are almost as big as normal µATX Towers or something like that.

 

A compact case would be for example this:

https://geizhals.de/silverstone-milo-ml08-schwarz-sst-ml08b-a1322428.html

And due to the Boards, you can't (and shouldn't!) overclock anyway!!

 

I personaly have two ITX Systems, one office/IGP wich is really small and one not so small Silverstone RVZ-01, wich I think is rather big...

 

 

And with that space you could fit at best something like a Noctua NH-L12 or similar. Though I'd personally would go with Heatsinks that have 25mm thick fans...

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Fractal Design Define Nano S.

 

you can see what it's capable of here

 

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Ncase M1. see my log for a 8700K and 1080ti in a custom loop.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/842197-its-not-about-the-sizepiccolo-full-custom-loop-in-ncase-m1-v5-build/

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