2017

>2017
>he bought a pigfat atx case for his single gpu build
anything but mitx or matx is unacceptable for the average gaming pc.
>inb4 muh sli
>inb4 muh airflow
>inb4 muh price premium

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>mini atx

Who is this poster for? The 17 year olds with PS4s and Alienware laptops their parents bought them that make up this board. I'd direct you to Sup Forums but bait like this is going to get you banned kid.

>he's older than 20
>browses Sup Forums

Sounds more like a Steam Machine user who bought a shiny box to stick in his entertainment center and actually thinks it's a PC.

>He doesn't buy a full ATX board for his Xonar

Xtreme pleb unless you have a custom AMPDAC rig.

>have midtower
>barely enough room for a basic build

I'm buying a full tower next build purely for better cable management/airflow

go look at a single guts thread. 90% of them are massive "mid" towers with a single gpu and massive aircooler that take up only half of the case. There's literally no reason for the majority of us to have these fuckhuge cases anymore, you're not paying a premium for itx components anymore. Why not go with something smaller?

Yea, that's my sister.
>user, I need a full tower and a high end motherboard for my 6700k, even though I'm not even going to overclock it and I won't buy an aftermarket cooler, that airflow is just so important.

>blames the case for his shitty cable management
neither cable management or airflow make any meaningful difference on temperatures or performance anyway.

I bought a full tower because I have 5 HDDs that I actually utilize as well as some PCI and PCI-E add on cards, such as for WiFi.

Aren't soundcards mostly obsolete because of audio through HDMI?

I have my 1080 going into a receiver and I get full surround sound with no lag and it seems to work just fine.

>Not having a PCI-E/M.2 SSD
>Not having NAS-tier storage in your PC
poor people

see AVERAGE GAMING PC, itx mobos with onboard sound is more than enough for the majority of people(many include wifi as well). 1/2tb storage + ssd is more than enough for the average build.

Is mini ITX a meme? I want a small PC in my next build since it'll be single GPU and I'm not looking for aftermarket cooling.

no. desired specs/budget?

The radiator for my water cooler didn't fit well in my old case and I decided I wasn't going to buy something smaller than full size just to potentially have to upgrade again when cases are supposed to last a lifetime.

Enjoy throwing money away on upgrades because you were too cheap to buy properly the first time. I sure did.

most tards on here just care about looks and the "lego" appeal to computer building and fail to think about why form factor exists.

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what case would be "appropriate" for this build

I bought a mini ATX.

Buy a full ATX.

>you're not paying a premium for itx components anymore.
Yes, I am.

mini itx ftw

Mid tower saves you about 4" of space directly above the tower and 2" of space directly in front of the tower. You also save about $20.
OP is at least bi if not full blown homosexual.

Don't go mini ITX unless you plan to take it with you a lot. It is a massive meme and a pain to work with unless you have tiny hands. From cable management to adding/removing parts, believe me when I say it will make you hate PC building.

Stick with mid tower size. It is more than enough for SLI and custom water cooling. I have a Full Tower and believe me when I say there is a lot of room that needs filling. I already finished my rig from a hardware standpoint and am considering downgrading to a temp glass mid tower down the line.

Budget is ~2k.

As far a specs, batter tha npic related. Except RAM, I'm good for RAM. My priority is VRAM since I haven't run into CPU problems yet.

>he didn't plan around his build
sg13b ($40) or node 202 ($70) accommodate for gpus with tri-slot coolers.
shame considering how piss easy it is to build in alot of sffpc
>quadcore housefire in 2017
>false flagging this hard

what is the appeal of that particular case? I like coolermaster but I'm not a fan of their larger cases.

I've owned:
CM Storm Scout 2
N200

Built:
N400
Storm Trooper
Cosmos II

or just stop being a cheap fuck and get a nice case that you can use for years and a decent mobo

...

Like dis???

Mini has a place. If you know with certainty that the parts you're getting will fit in mini, and that you'll never replace them with anything larger, it's worth it. This is mostly non-gaming PC, HTPC, and home server.

If you want mobile gaming, a high-performance laptop is better.
If you want a mobile PC, a netbook or tablet is better.
If you want a gaming PC, mid- or full-ATX is better.

alot of am4 itx boards are coming out in the next couple of months, if you do anything productive with your machine the 1600 is a decent option/step up from ivy bridge. Wait™ for vega for the 1070/80 price drops alone. Can swap the ncase out for an sg13 or matx like pic related.

But I love my microATX build, user :c

what brand of cpu is that recliner

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>ryzen meme
>noctua meme
>miniATX meme
>16GB meme
>SSD meme
>nvidia meme
>Corsair meme

Holy shit are you gonna use it to browse reddit or something?

Its a lazy boy lol but i have a i76700k

Smaller form factors are great on space, but not good on noise or heat. I've used them for things like media center pcs in the past but I'd stay away for a main build if you're going to OC or play very intensive games.

they're cheaper

You don't need aftermarket coolin if you don't plan to OC yo.

The fuck are you smoking? mini are the most expensive

Go find an H board for less than 100.

On the subject of laptops... are there any out there decent for gaming? I'd like to have something to use during downtime when I go out of town.

my bad senpai. I was thinking of micro ATXs

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>8 core + 1080ti for the same price

People always shit on MicroATX but it really is the perfect form factor for 90% of "gaming" PCs. You can still have a dual video card set up if you want, you still have great airflow, the cases aren't cramped for cable management if you just get a fully modular PSU and you save about $60~100 on the motherboard and case compared to regular ATX. There's not even really any lost functionality.

The cpu comes with a very good cooler. Don't go aftermarket unless you have to.
Check the mobo manufacturer's website for a qvl list for your ram. If it's not on the list, it's going to run at the slowest speed unless you OC it.
Dude do you really need a m.2 ssd that's 5 times the price of the hdd? Just get a sata drive.
Not sure why you have a blower style 1080 when a high-end 1070 will be just as good. Still should wait for vega.

my housefire 290 is stable 76c under load in a shoebox. If i can run hawaii in a case this small you can run anything

>not liking FAT cases
Get your anorexic shit outta here

I dunno. I have a mid tower and SLI 970s and an aftermarket CPU cooler packed that bitch pretty tight.

what's the rest of your temps like

My Corsair 450D is perfect for what I have in my PC though.

>make atx case
>call it itx

Yeah, kinda stupid, but I love it.

>everything I don't like is a meme

290 idle: 42c
290 load: 76c
4690k idle: 32c
4690k load: 51c
managed to cram the biggest, most unnecessary components into an itx case to see if i could. Really impressed by the fact that it doesn't melt itself.

Don't like the spaghetti messes that the cables end up turning into but nice temps man

ncase benefits from a blower cooler that draws hot air out of the case, but yeah he could easily swap out the 960 for a cheap 1tb sata ssd. The biostar is compatible with ddr4 3200 iirc.

its probably downclocking etc

that looks like an absolute nightmare to get setup

I'm super guilty of this

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To this
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It's way smaller and quieter and took until the front panel on my last case fell apart, audio jacks and stuff stopped working, premiere case my ass never buying Fractal again, took me two years to switch and fuck did I learn, always go small it's so much better.

nope, 1100mhz core 1150mhz boost without throttling
i tried to pretty it up but it's not really that doable without custom length psu cables. Doesn't bother me that much, fitted an h75 to the 290 which dropped load temps to 55c-60c

My 2010 guts on the bottom, PCI cards removed except for a placeholder GPU because I didn't buy a motherboard with onboard graphics.

[TN:bottom means right]

SATA expansion card, sound card, wifi card, 2.5-slot GPU, 4 HDDs, SSD, optical drive. Good luck fitting that in a tiny case.

Seriously, I'd like to to miniITX, but I just need the room of a midtower.

>2017
>caring about one of the least expensive parts of a computer

Kill yourself immediately

literally LMAOing at the lives of ALL you fucking tiny case cucks that can't afford more than one graphics card and more than one storage device, and even a full size case

>he bought a tiny ass case that he'll have to sell in a year because he needed more space for that unplanned / unexpected upgrade.

meanwhile....

ill be rocking the same case for the next 5-10 years.

>2017
>he still uses an antiquated form factor from the 70s

>he's older than 20
Yes, and if we had more of him we could get some semblance of old Sup Forums before you feminine penis faggots started flooding it.

>implying the majority of itx cases don't have enough room to fit fuckhuge cards with massive coolers
mitx mobos aren't going anywhere and you don't need a massive cooler for your processor. You can comfortably run an i7 or octacore 1700 a cooler that's roughly 60mm tall

yeah I'm sure using a 65W cooler on an 88W chip is a good idea

If you have a chip that power hungry just slap an AIO on it, it'll do the job fine enough. miniITX cases can generally accomodate one, 120mm at the very least, and the flexible tubing makes them not even hard to install.

How did you put a chair inside your pc?????

LOL?
LOL??

>57mm
>$30
>130w

>"it's not fat, it's thicc"

only worth it if you actually NEED the portability or have enough to blow on a decent one without repercussion. No upgradeability, shitty thermals, priced hundreds more than an equivalent desktop build. That being said the mobile pascal chips are quite a bit closer to their desktop counterparts than previous mobile graphics. A 1060 laptop can be had for around $1000.