SFF PC Build

[Saul123]

Budget (including currency): ~500.00

Country: US 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, streaming, Engineering software i.e. CAD, Solidworks

 

As the new semester approaches and in-person classes start, a SFF PC is what I am considering to make. I am considering swapping my current mid-tower build into a SFF PC and I am finding it very hard to fit my parts into a SFF PC. Many cases do not allow me to recycle most parts of my build. Currently I have a replacement plans on my mobo, cpu, and psu so those can be swapped for smaller form factors but my 280mm Arctic Freezer ii and RTX 3080 are difficult to to fit in smaller cases. I have thought that maybe I could trade my gpu with someone who has a 300mm or smaller rtx 3080 but I don't know anyone who even owns one. I am open to the idea of making a custom loop but it would just exponentially raise my expenses. Any help or suggestions for cases, mobo's, and psu's? Do I bite the bullet and go full custom loop and sell my other parts? 

 

EDIT: the mobo and psue together are about 400 dollars soo that money would be added to the budget to buy the sff parts. So ~900 dollars budget and excluding my PSU and MOBO from my list. 

 

Current build:

Asus X570 tuf gaming plus WIFI 

Ryzen 5 5600x 

Arctic Freezer ii 280mm

GIGABYTE Gaming OC RTX 3080 (320mm length, 129mm width, 55mm height)

32GB Gskill Ripjaws V (4 x 8GB)

2 NvME Drives

Corsair RM850x PSU 

Darkflash DLX 21 Mesh Case

[Chris Pratt]

I'm confused. You started the post with a $500 budget, but it now sounds like your budget is $900, excluding the cost of the mobo and PSU. So, $1300 total? Have you already purchased those, or are you still open to suggestion?

[brob]

The Cooler Master NR200 can accommodate a 330mm gpu and 280 aio (mounted on the side above the gpu).

[Saul123]

1 hour ago, Chris Pratt said:

I'm confused. You started the post with a $500 budget, but it now sounds like your budget is $900, excluding the cost of the mobo and PSU. So, $1300 total? Have you already purchased those, or are you still open to suggestion?

The Mobo and psu are already purchased but I can return them for 400 so my total budget is 900. 

[Saul123]

On 5/8/2021 at 10:03 PM, brob said:

The Cooler Master NR200 can accommodate a 330mm gpu and 280 aio (mounted on the side above the gpu).

I've seen it with the arctic freezer and it's not a good fit. The tubes bend more than I am comfortable with.