mini-itx My first build after I felt my AMD FX 8350 wasn´t doing it for me!

BurgeSWE · October 12, 2019

Just saw the youtube video "Our Smallest Gaming PC Build EVER!" on LTT channel so I had the urge to join the "micro build club"

November 2018 I decided to get a project finished that I started half a year earlier.

Since I had given my own PC with AMD FX 8350, GTX 1050 ti and 16Gb of DDR3 1600mhz to my oldest son I decided that papa needs a computer of his own.

I had bought a cheap AMD Phenom X2 case in a small pc format and came across a Mini ITX motherboard for a good value of cost that I saw fit.

Trouble was that the original 250w PSU was not sure to handle what I had in mind.

But I decided to try it out with the new MB and RAM I just got.

So I was pretty proud to start up my Ryzen 5 1600x with my old GTX 1050 ti and find out it was working.

But sometimes I felt it was struggling.

So... In december 2018 I had my new setup at home and was ready to get my gaming refreshed and be the gamer I was ment to be.

I play all my games on high/ultra 1920x1080 and games include Destiny 2, Overwatch, Diablo III, Sniper Ghost Warrior 3, Rise/Shadow of theTomb Raider (actually in 3d on my Benq w1300 beamer) aso....

I didn´t document the build but here is the picture of the "little offspring" and the specs for it.

SPECS

Case Packard Bell Imedia s1300
MB BIOSTAR RACING X370GTN mini-ITX
PSU SilverStone SFX Series SX600-G
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1600x w Scythe Big Shuriken 3
GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB ACX 2.0+ SC+
RAM Corsair 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL16 Value Select
Optical Generic DVD-RW

SSD Intenso Top M.2 2280 SSD SATA III 128GB

HDD Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200rpm 64MB

The case meassures:

Height 31cm (12.2")

Width 18.4cm (7 1/4")

Dept 31cm (12.2")