What's your favourite small form factor ITX case.

[Sebastian Whitehead]

I personally love the small form factor builds that can bunch way above their weight class. High density power houses hit a sweet spot for me as I live in a relatively small apartment and desk space is at a premium.
I am personally a fan of the Loque Ghost S1 and the FormD T1, but I wanted to hear everyone's opinions on which compact cases you love and why. What makes it "THE CASE" for when you are building a mighty midget.

[jaslion]

Cougar qbx.

It's actually small

It's cheap

It's good good airflow

And it's just an overall decent case

 

Not much more you need really.

[WhitetailAni]

I don't own one yet, but I really like the idea of the Velka Velkase 3.

 

I'm planning to build a recreation of my first gaming machine (an ASUS V400C laptop with a Core i3-2365M, 4GB of DDR3, 500GB HDD, Intel HD 3000 graphics, and Linux Mint 17.3) with desktop hardware, and I'd like to make it as small as possible.

I'm planning to use a Z68 or Z77 board with a 2700K, disable 2 cores, and then underclock it so that it matches the 2365M's clockspeeds and core count. I still have the original HDD and screen as well.

[Freakwise]

I'm never own one but louqe ghost s1 is kinda my favourite, it's not the very small to the point where you feel claustrophobic while building the system nor very big and the build quality is solid

[Radium_Angel]

This

[VioDuskar]

34 minutes ago, Sebastian Whitehead said:

I personally love the small form factor builds that can bunch way above their weight class. High density power houses hit a sweet spot for me as I live in a relatively small apartment and desk space is at a premium.
I am personally a fan of the Loque Ghost S1 and the FormD T1, but I wanted to hear everyone's opinions on which compact cases you love and why. What makes it "THE CASE" for when you are building a mighty midget.

silverstone ML08B-H. it has a handle. it can pack a full size (2 slot) GPU, two 2.5 SSDs, and a laptop dvd drive. 

biggest thing for me is the handle and slim size make it super portable, because I travel a lot. even if it's weighty, it's easy to lug around because it's dense. 

I did have to stuff the handle with foam and wrap it with electrical tape though, because it's plastic digs at my hands after a while.  

downside is that you must use a SFX PSU.

it uses a PCIE riser bracket, but what SFF doesn't?
additionally, because it's so small you can only fit slim air coolers in it, limiting you to lower TDP cores. 
I recently had to move from my intel 7700k to an AMD 5600x to get my TDP down. not that big of a deal. 

[GuiltySpark_]

Cooler Master NR200. Bringing those tiny boutique style to the masses and not being a piece of crap in the process. 

[flibberdipper]

After my friend showed me a picture of his SM580 and how easy it was to build in it, I ended up looking at Sliger's other small cases and absolutely fell in love with the SM560 because I am a masochist and want the smallest sane build I can have. Whenever I'm able to start upgrading I'm absolutely buying one in white with the dual ventilated side panels.

 

Only thing I'm still a bit on the fence with is the idea of running an 11600K with an L9i, even though I'll have tuned it pretty damn hard to get the best frequency I can out of the lowest voltage. Though from what I recall, the 10600K was doing just fine with an L9i so it's probably not going to be a problem.

[jaslion]

18 hours ago, rickeo said:

Cooler Master NR200. Bringing those tiny boutique style to the masses and not being a piece of crap in the process. 

Honestly surprised it took this long to get a mass semicopy of a boutique popular itx case.

[LTT_fanboy]

20 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

I don't own one yet, but I really like the idea of the Velka Velkase 3.

 

I'm planning to build a recreation of my first gaming machine (an ASUS V400C laptop with a Core i3-2365M, 4GB of DDR3, 500GB HDD, Intel HD 3000 graphics, and Linux Mint 17.3) with desktop hardware, and I'd like to make it as small as possible.

I'm planning to use a Z68 or Z77 board with a 2700K, disable 2 cores, and then underclock it so that it matches the 2365M's clockspeeds and core count. I still have the original HDD and screen as well.

build the screen into the front metal hole-y panel

[Sebastian Whitehead]

22 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

This

I love the look and I only image the possibility of epic airflow :P. But a dust nightmare

 

[Radium_Angel]

27 minutes ago, Sebastian Whitehead said:

I love the look and I only image the possibility of epic airflow :P. But a dust nightmare

 

I built an open frame pc case recently and the system stays very cool (like, amazingly wonderfully cool) but finds ALL the dust in your house...

Compared to other cases I have worked with in the past, thermals simply aren't an issue with an open frame case like that but that dust....

[Sebastian Whitehead]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

I built an open frame pc case recently and the system stays very cool (like, amazingly wonderfully cool) but finds ALL the dust in your house...

Compared to other cases I have worked with in the past, thermals simply aren't an issue with an open frame case like that but that dust....

There is some existential theory to be found here

i just know it.

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Sebastian Whitehead said:

There is some existential theory to be found here

i just know it.

Yes, I don't vacuum enough....

(I replaced all the carpet in my house with hardwood and thought that would solve the dust issue. I was wrong)