I've been for awhile on this forum. Seen many case-projects, but they've become so restrictive lately. Everyone loved Dan-A4 case, and we have many almost identical solutions now. But it is a pain to find great low profile cpu-cooler (even Dan crowdfunded one now). And we have additional price because of long raiser. Many console like projects suffered from cpu-height restriction as well. In the other hand we have NCase-M1 project - and I love it, but it is more than 12L volume! Can we reduce it's size to something more reasonable - even below 7 liters without raiser? I think we can.
The goals I'm chasing:
Used components:
The main flaws I see now - the PSU cable is on different side than main MB IO (personally I don't care, and for me it would be even better because I want IO side to be the front one), and there is no space for GPU power cable (or we need to make custom slim gpu-power-cables), maybe we need couple additional coolers.
But if we make the case taller for 30-40mm! even till 180mm and all the flaws would be patched - we still be inside 9L volume.
Maybe this solution is a bit optimistic, but I really want something like this - if you've seen anything alike, tell me please.
The goals I'm chasing:
- Small build
- Free the restriction on cpu-cooler height
- Inner PSU solution
- ITX Motherboard: Asus Strix z270i
- Additional components: RAM + M2 drives
- SFX PSU: Corsair SF450
- GPU: ITX Zotac 1070
- CPU-Cooler: Noctua NH-D9L (But thinking about something really big like D15)
The main flaws I see now - the PSU cable is on different side than main MB IO (personally I don't care, and for me it would be even better because I want IO side to be the front one), and there is no space for GPU power cable (or we need to make custom slim gpu-power-cables), maybe we need couple additional coolers.
But if we make the case taller for 30-40mm! even till 180mm and all the flaws would be patched - we still be inside 9L volume.
Maybe this solution is a bit optimistic, but I really want something like this - if you've seen anything alike, tell me please.