completed Project Mini-Beast (SFF HTPC)

[Brawndo]

Hi Guys,

 

Long time lurker.

 

I've had my main build finished for a while with a Skylake 6700k,  but was craving building a small PC ever since I saw Luke and Linus cram a Titan X in the shoe box, so I thought I would share my SFF build with you guys. 

 

The objective of my SFF build was the smallest I could get without compromises. Actually, only compromise I was willing to do is going with air cooling and obviously no SLI, and I wanted a case that was simple to work it, with a PCI-e riser and extension so that I could mount the card vertically to the mobo, and I found the Silverstone RVZ02. 

 

I've hooked the build to a 55" Samsung 4K Television in my home office. This is mainly a steam gaming and video streaming station (Netflix, Youtube etc).  I was able to manage 60hz with HDMI 2.0. 

 

Still have some cable management to do on the desk and tv but that's pretty much it. 

 

Hope you like it, it's a pretty straight forward build with nothing special, but I'm very happy with it. 

 

Parts:

 

CPU: i7 6700k

Cooler: Silverstone AR06

Memory: Kingston Hyper X 16GB (2 x 8 @ 2400)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 Mini ITX

Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 NVMe

GPU: Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980 Ti

Case: Silverstone RVZ02B-W HTPC Case

PSU: Silverstone 600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply

Blu-Ray: LG Slim 12.7  Blu-Ray

Keyboard: Corsair Strafe RGB

Mouse: Corsair m65 RGB

Mousepad: MM200 extended

Controllers: Xbox 360 / Steam Controller

OS: Win 10 Pro x64

Display: Samsung 55" 4K

 

Parts!

 

 

That board is small! Next to an iPhone 6S Plus

 

 

M.2 Mounted

 

 

SFS PSU next to a regular Corsair 760 and an M.2 stick

 

 

 

CPU, Ram and Cooler mounted. Color of the fan didn't fit the rest of the color scheme, will evetually hunt for a 92mm fan in black/red. 

 

 

Prepping the case

 

 

 

Mobo and GPU mounted

 

 

 

Working on cable management, forgot to take a final shot but at the end it looked quite tidy and clean considering the space.

 

 

Size compared to an Xbone

 

 

It's alive! Posted on first try. Not sure why it was showing 40c, it now idles at around 29. A bit high, might try to resit the CPU and redo thermal paste again. High 40's under load.

 

 

On the desk, need to work on cables a little, purchased a white plastic tunnel for the wall, need to install when I get time

 

 

Let me know what you think, feedback and criticism welcome 

 

 

Edited March 25, 2016 by Brawndo
Image linking issue

[Brawndo]

Oups, post went wrong will try to edit it sorry about that. 

[TheRandomness]

I'd hate a clean desk like that... mine is covered in stuff  Nice build though.

[Klefth]

So nice and clean. Good one.

[GeekJump]

+ Small

+ Powerful

+ Smexy Case

+ Clean Desk (real wood or particle?)

 

10/10 *GeekJump Seal of Approval*