Beautiful Small Form Factor

[Jerry202]

Would never buy this myself since it's mostly a piece of art with no guarantees of future GPU compatibility but MAN is it good looking.

 

 

[ulookuglynoob]

11 minutes ago, Jerry202 said:

Would never buy this myself since it's mostly a piece of art with no guarantees of future GPU compatibility but MAN is it good looking.

 

 

i LOVE sff builds. Ima make one when i save up enough, but they are ridiculously expensive.

[dizmo]

22 minutes ago, ulookuglynoob said:

i LOVE sff builds. Ima make one when i save up enough, but they are ridiculously expensive.

They're not really thaaaat much more than a regular build. Depends what you spend on the case.

[ulookuglynoob]

3 minutes ago, dizmo said:

They're not really thaaaat much more than a regular build. Depends what you spend on the case.

I cant explain it, there just so CUTE. idk whats wrong with me.

[Monkey Dust]

That does look so nice, though the GPU fan noise would be a little annoying.

 

After going back to full sized with my current build, due to part shortages a couple of years ago, I'm itching to go back to SFF. The amount of space a mid-tower takes up for a standard gaming setup of CPU, GPU and a couple of m.2 drives is nuts. 

 

Just now, dizmo said:

They're not really thaaaat much more than a regular build. Depends what you spend on the case.

They're not insanely more expensive. But the cases are often more expensive, and there is a premium for mITX boards and SFX PSUs, possibly some shorter PSU cables too. It does add up. I guess comparable costwise to an RGB heavy ATX build.

 

MATX is often a more affordable compromise. A clever MATX case can give you a compact PC, without the mITX tax.

[Jaw709]

52 minutes ago, Jerry202 said:

Would never buy this myself since it's mostly a piece of art with no guarantees of future GPU compatibility but MAN is it good looking.

 

 

Beautiful, I love the simplicity/efficiency of using the GPU on the perimeter for airflow..

[Alex Atkin UK]

31 minutes ago, Jaw709 said:

Beautiful, I love the simplicity/efficiency of using the GPU on the perimeter for airflow..

It really helps GPU temps.

 

I was very much into SFF a decade back but have moved back to chonky cases as its just so problematic when you need to upgrade.  Plus there always seems to be one dimension where they make the case just too small to be optimal, which is frustrating.

 

Particularly with GPUs from the last two generations, having the flow through straight into a PSU or hitting a wall is annoying.  I'd rather not bake the PSU and if it hits a wall it usually ruins GPU cooling, making them run louder.  So it really only works when the case is designed around specific hardware choices, which kills the whole point of PC building - having a wide choice of parts.

[Jaw709]

1 hour ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

It really helps GPU temps.

 

I was very much into SFF a decade back but have moved back to chonky cases as its just so problematic when you need to upgrade.  Plus there always seems to be one dimension where they make the case just too small to be optimal, which is frustrating.

 

Particularly with GPUs from the last two generations, having the flow through straight into a PSU or hitting a wall is annoying.  I'd rather not bake the PSU and if it hits a wall it usually ruins GPU cooling, making them run louder.  So it really only works when the case is designed around specific hardware choices, which kills the whole point of PC building - having a wide choice of parts.

Yeah not even hitting 80c GPU and "low/mid 60s" on CPU is what makes this interesting to me. I would buy a manufacturer optimized case as a "bundle" but it would have to be cheaper over all to offsett the un-upgradeability. For example if Microcenter or even newegg etc. did a 9800x3D SFF with a 7800xt or whathaveyou and sold it unassembled to save money