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After having a bunch of different small builds (including with the Cooltek U2, M99, P-Atx V1, Sharkoon QB).

My current setup is a half broken xps15  with the compact Arous Gaming Box egpu. I decided to drop this setup since it has a bunch of issues.


So I decided to go fanless (mostly) for my next build.

The Hardware:

  • CPU: Intel i5 10500 6/12 with 3,1ghz Baseclock I got it for a solid price (125€ shipped) It should be more than enough for me and a Intel platform has more options for passive coolers.
  • Motherboard: AsRock H470M Itx/Ac It has good number of ports, BT, two m.2 slots and I got it for 105€ shipped.
  • Ram: Some 16gb 2133 Kingston Kit for 50€
  • GPU: MSI GTX 1660 Ventus Oc I have this card for over a year (160€ back then) it works and should have enough power for now. I am going to run it with a reduced powertarget (probably 75% maybe more) and some undervolting which hopefully combined with the new cooler should keep the 1660 cool enough.
  • GPU Cooler: Raiintek Morpheus I have seen builds with it cooling 75W GPUs passively, which of course way less than the 1660s 130 Watt. Hopefully some undervolting/reduced Powertarget it will stay under 80°C. Otherwise I am going to use Liquid Metal. Got an EKL Peter for 25€ shipped
  • CPU Cooler: Silentmaxx Big Block A big 1180g Passive cooler all the way from 2010. More than enough to cool a 65w Cpu. Got an Scythe Orochi for 35€
  • Storage: Intel Optane H10 1tb/32gb Got it cheap (85€ Shipped) and I was curious if Optane is any good. And a second samsung m2 ssd 512gb I got for like 40€
  • "Case": Streacom BC1 mini great design, has anything I need except unimportant things like front IO or a Power/Reset Buttton. Also its pretty well Ventilated. (85€ shipped)
  • PSU: Fractal Design Ion 650w Sfx-L while it is not fanless its way cheaper (85€ shipped) than the only sfx passive psu or similar solutions. The specifications say that the fans won't turn on under a 300W load, which should mean they should never turn on in this system.

Gpu,Psu and Ram is already here and most of the other stuff should arrive in the next few days.


Edit 03/04/2021

ToDo list:

  • order the Vga Cooler
  • recieve all the parts
  • assemble the build
  • undervolt the gpu
  • swap the stock vga cooler
  • hope that the gpu does not overheat
  • find a good solution for the power button
  • secondary: get an infrared thermometer for some temperature readings
  • secondary: either make shorter psu cables or get some shorter made to make it look a bit nicer


Greetings