When I'm living back near a workshop, I plan to build a more respectable case. For now, I have to make do with this hacked one.
One thing worth noting is that because the fan is silent, I can hear a very faint capacitor whine at idle. I'm not sure if it's from the motherboard or the PicoPSU.
Images fixed?
I have no idea which way up is conventional for vertical motherboard!
But having the antennas at the bottom seems equally bad, especially since every cable apart from audio would hang over them!
I just replaced my development machine with a system based on this board and:
i7-8700
32GB RAM
500GB NVMe SSD
160W pico-PSU
BeQuiet Shadow Rock LP cooler
My only complaint is the audio connectors being above the wifi antennas.
My previous machines internals were Thin-ITX + 65w i5 all under...
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