Advice Building something portable yet water-cooled

tmangan

Case Bender
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Aug 13, 2023
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Hi all,

Looking to build my first SFFPC. My current PC is showing its age and with me going back to university, I need an alternative to travelling with the same PC. I’m thinking of building a second PC and keeping one at uni and one at home. All I’d have to travel with are my hard drives.

I’ve already picked out parts:
Intel i7-12700KF
ASUS ROG STRIX B760-I
2x16gb RAM
2TB M.2 SSD
MSI RTX 3080

Looking to put this into a Cooler master NR200 mini itx as anything smaller might not have enough space for water-cooling components. To save space I’m looking to use an EK Quantum Velocity² DDC cooler. It’s a CPU cooler, pump and reservoir combo. 3080 is also being put into an EK quantum GPU waterblock. Not sure yet on fan/radiator configuration yet.

Looking for feedback/anything I should be aware of. If there are any other cases out there are smaller/better then I’m open to changing. Apologies if this is too ambitious for someone that’s not touched water-cooling or SFF PCs before.