two compact hardware store builds :P

[Mrak]

These two are made of two cheapest pieces of wood one can find, a fist of screws and other stuff i found lying around. And a little time.

Why?

Well, the light one was in a case the size of a house and now its taking less then half the size then before and takes less then half of table and its quiet. Its phenom x4 955be 3.9 with gtx 760 10 gigs of ram. Its only 22*28cm

The dark one is q9550 3.30 7 gigs of ram and a gtx 560. It was in a small case but when i put together the first one i thought ok lets do it again. It was in a small but ugly case, since its use is as a htpc in a living room i thought it would look better. Ok, one might argue its look but it is unique . 22*24 cm but a little taller then phenom

 

Only downside is, both need dusting from time to time but i aint scared of geting in there with vacum cleaner.

Thinking of getting asrock ab350 itx and ryzen 1600 or 2600(or 1700/2700) and since those are as cheap now as they get, and making a build as small as possible.. 1060 itx possibly verticaly on an extender cable

 

 

ah yea i forgot, power and reset switches are from ebay, 5v on lighter one so connected to led conections on board, 12v leds(my mistake) on dark one so i had to connect them to psu, thats why i left orange hdd led on the bottom

 

[ahuckphin]

I would add a fan grille to the front and a gpu support 

[Mrak]

yeah  me too! because it wasnt really well though off or planed, i added plexy and top cover later becauseits on the floor and if you look at it from birds perspective its not much to look at   and as a consequence heat would get traped up top altho its open, so i put this fan on velcro for easy on off. only to move some air. i did thought of grille but couldnt get my hands on one so far..  aand i will remove this gpu and put 750 ti, smaller, no nasty wires and much less heat/more quiet 

 

i guess the other one needs gpu support more but its easy to showe a small piece of same wood in there