Mini build

[EJOE]

Hello, I’ve built a couple rigs and I absolutely love building them. But I wanted to challenge myself the third time around. I want to build a mini computer. One that I can fit right onto my desk. And as small as Possible,  With water cooling. Any suggestions? 

[Slottr]

To not water cool and use a good quality air cooler

[Firewrath9]

Fractal Nano S would be the smallest I would LC. Front 280mm and a ultra-slim (20mm + 15mm fan) top rad (optional, a 280 should be fine for GPU + CPU)

[EJOE]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

To not water cool and use a good quality air cooler

I was thinking about doing that too

[EJOE]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

Fractal Nano S would be the smallest I would LC.

Okay thanks I’ll check it out 

[Theguywhobea]

12 minutes ago, EJOE said:

Hello, I’ve built a couple rigs and I absolutely love building them. But I wanted to challenge myself the third time around. I want to build a mini computer. One that I can fit right onto my desk. And as small as Possible,  With water cooling. Any suggestions? 

I have fit an Corsair H60 in a Silverstone SG13, you could give that a look over.

[Imbellis]

The SG13B, NanoS, DanA4, S4C, Zaber Sentry, and NCase M1 are some of the smallest cases.

 

The smallest case I would recommend doing a custom loop in is the NCase M1.

A few people have done it in the past:

Spoiler

 

 

 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

it depends on how small you want to get and it will compromise the cooling a little but it still tends to be fine. if you want really small the s4 mini is probably your best bet or if your building it into your desk you don't need a case https://nfc-systems.com/skyreach-4-mini

[unsungheroist]

3 hours ago, Alaradia said:

it depends on how small you want to get and it will compromise the cooling a little but it still tends to be fine. if you want really small the s4 mini is probably your best bet or if your building it into your desk you don't need a case https://nfc-systems.com/skyreach-4-mini

Your referencing the a30 

also

Phanteks Evolv Shift small foot print but tall

This is short one but check out bitwits build on it as it’s more realistic but it’s 30mins

[EJOE]

On 2/28/2019 at 9:58 PM, unsungheroist said:

Your referencing the a30 

also

Phanteks Evolv Shift small foot print but tall

This is short one but check out bitwits build on it as it’s more realistic but it’s 30mins

I really like this geek A30 case. Do I need some sort of GPu Riser?

[EJOE]

On 2/28/2019 at 6:15 PM, Firewrath9 said:

Fractal Nano S would be the smallest I would LC. Front 280mm and a ultra-slim (20mm + 15mm fan) top rad (optional, a 280 should be fine for GPU + CPU)

I like the Nano too, I'm in between the Nano and the geeek

 

[Firewrath9]

On 3/2/2019 at 1:52 AM, EJOE said:

I like the Nano too, I'm in between the Nano and the geeek

 

You cant do a custom loop in the geek, but you can in then nano (its designed for custom loop)

On 3/2/2019 at 1:49 AM, EJOE said:

I really like this geek A30 case. Do I need some sort of GPu Riser?

https://www.geeekstore.com/shop/geeek-a30-mini-itx-case/

yeah, you need a riser.

[EJOE]

On 3/3/2019 at 11:39 AM, Firewrath9 said:

You cant do a custom loop in the geek, but you can in then nano (its designed for custom loop)

https://www.geeekstore.com/shop/geeek-a30-mini-itx-case/

yeah, you need a riser.

Maybe I’m stupid for not knowing but can you explain what a riser is? I looked it up and I just found stuff about mining cards 

[Firewrath9]

13 hours ago, EJOE said:

Maybe I’m stupid for not knowing but can you explain what a riser is? I looked it up and I just found stuff about mining cards 

https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Gaming-Black-Extender-AC-053-CN1OTN-C1/dp/B06Y5YNGDJ

its basically an extension cable for pcie, as there isn't space above motherboard in the geek a30 for a gpu, there is space behind it.

https://lanoc.org/review/cases/7810-geeek-a30?showall=1