Cooltek U2 Mitx gaming build

[Pärminator]

Hello guys. Since winter I've wanted an mitx gaming rig, but my financial situation hasn't been good. I got myself mitx board Asus H81+ and i3 4130 in the summer.

Last weekend I ordered myself a Cooltek/Jonsbo U2 chassis with a neat window!

I figured out not many people have heard of the case so I dediced to share my build with you.

 

The box has arrived!

The case is well packed in soft foam, Linus would approve.

First look at the case, it's very light and looks very clean.

Inside we see USB3 and HD audio plugs. The case comes with a dustfilter and 15dB Jonsbo fan, which I ended replacing with Noctuas NF-S12 800 rpm fan.

Next to my old Bitfenix Outlaw

I accidentally whiped a few motherboard screws on the floor and got a magnet to hold my screws.

Theres a 3-way fan controller on the back. I removed it just for the sake of cables.

Noctua NH-U14S / Kingston 1600mhz 2x4GB / i3 4130 / Asus H81i-Plus

Just a little bit cable management left! Even though theres pretty much no way to hide cables.

Finally, the system is ready!

 

 

Interested in the case? Check out this handy buyers guide for this case

 

Overall thoughts about it. Building it was pain. But when I learned that PSU should be the very last thing to put on it, its pretty simple.

Sure, there's little to no cable management. I just rolled up the cables to excess space behind the PSU. I routed PCI-E cable behind the HDD tray (That you can use to mount a 120mm fan)

 

Tomorrow I am going to buy myself Crucials MX100 SSD, because my other HDD is sitting in the table on top of duct tape. I will probably end up taping the SSD on the PSU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ddeuel]

Cool build, glad to see that mitx is becoming more popular. If you do decide to duct tape the ssd in your case, please take some pictures that sounds awesome I've not seen nor heard of this case before.

[Pärminator]

Cool build, glad to see that mitx is becoming more popular. If you do decide to duct tape the ssd in your case, please take some pictures that sounds awesome I've not seen nor heard of this case before.

I'm going to use doublesided tape with the SSD

[ForsakenLive]

What GPU are you using?

[Pärminator]

What GPU are you using?

Sapphire HD7850 1GB that just barely fits!

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

very nice build