MSI Meg Prospect 700R build.

AlienALX · October 18, 2023

I bought a new used GPU very cheap.

I decided on black extensions, just cheap ones. I also bought a Jonsbo RAM cooler, but mostly for the VRM, considering the build would run on two 360 AIOs. This means no air flow over the board at all.

Though be warned whilst it is very well made and very quiet it does not work properly with ITX boards. I had to modify it to work.

I went with cheap fans, and reused other things from the PC before the upgrade.

I did, however, get this.

Because there was no way a 650w was going to cut it. I got it on sale for £104. Made sure to check reviews first of course.

So the parts I reused were my X570i Strix, my 3950x and 32gb Micron RAM. I also reused my Phanteks Neons (x4) and then bought a GPU jack with RGB also.

Case arrived, take it apart. There is a lot of it.

So much I had to move the chassis away from the area to sort it out.

See the plastic shroud part? well that broke. Because of this.

Remember kids, always read the maual... Which is total trash. It didn't matter because of the way I configured everything, so it wouldn't have fitted back in there any way.

This was the hardest part. Getting the three 140mm front fans on exhaust, and the rad with intake on the other side, and getting it all in. Think GPU with a heavy anchor attached.

So here we are much later with the intakes fitted, and covers cut to hide the nasty stickers in the middle of the intake fans.

And here we are even later than that with three covering the front fan stickers.

One thing I hated was the open end of the PSU shroud. So.

And CNC.

Test fit before cleaning edges and installing permanently.

And then.

jaslion · October 18, 2023

Looks neat!

Whats the reason for a tiny itx board in a atx case btw?

AlienALX · October 18, 2023

Because it is what I had basically.

I had it all in a ITX case but the CPU was getting too hot. The GPU I had (6700XT Strix) was making far too much noise in there too. I know a lot of Youtubers make HEDT in ITX cases but they are not truthful about living with it after. It's a ball pain, basically. So, like the other two I have upgraded recently? cooling all the way. Sick of having microwaves on my desk. So aye, I just didn't want to have to buy a new board. What I did need was a case capable of pulling air in through three fans AND allowing you to have two 360 rads. Which in this day and age is a lot harder than it sounds, and only a tiny handful of cases can do it.