G4 Cube as a PC case?

Space646 · May 21, 2023

Budget (including currency): around 5000PLN (around 1100EUR)

Country: Poland/Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: mostly editing using the whole Adobe CC package, also racing in BeamNG, AC/ACC. Maybe later iRacing too

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): so, my monitor is a Dell UW3818DW (bought it cause of the 103% DCI-P3 color accuracy), then I have a RTX 3060, Ryzen 7 3700x, Seasonic Focus GX-1000 (yes a huge overkill), 3 NVMe SSDs (some kind of ADATA which I bought many years ago, Samsung 980 Pro and 970 Evo {NOT PLUS}). Also 48GB of RAM (16+8+16+8)@3200MT/s.

I'd like to upgrade to AM5 maybe? It would be nice, because I have a spare Pro WX 3100 I could use for my current PC as a server.

The biggest challenge is, well, I wanna have it small, because my current case is a huge Fractal Design 7 XL. I personally hate RGB, I like more "sleek" designs. My idea is, to maybe, use a PowerMac G4 Cube case? I like the design very much, although it's oldish. Another idea is to maybe 3D print one, or CNC one out (I have a CNCing service 3km from my home). Something like a big block of metal with fins looking like a CSL DD would also be nice imo.

Spoiler

I am buying a CSL DD later today, so that's why I thought of it. The case would just be a bigger version of the CSL DD aluminium case, and also could be used as a radiator (maybe passive cooling? /s).

So, question is, what case should I choose? AM5 or stick to AM4 utilizing my old RAM. Also, If I took a small case like a G4 Cube, It would have to be Mini-ITX (the MB), what about the GPU? Risers or eGPU through Thunderbolt?