I am stuck in the middle of what to do with my SFF kit at the moment.
I currently have a dedicated portable gaming rig as per my sig below: i5 4670K / Max VII Impact / GTX 970 / 8GB DDR3 / 500GB SSD + 500GB HDD all in an SG13.
I also have my 'dev' PC that is doing nothing particular, other than helping work out a [glacially slow] case build.
That's based on a Prime B250M Plus with G4500 (cheap test CPU) and my old GTX660 with a 4GB RAM stick.
It is in a part made 17L mATX case that's a sort of (very) ghetto NCase M1 / Necere's Sept 2018 mATX design which I am working on slowly.
I am going back into more photography and need to commit to an imaging platform for raw files - maybe Photoshop monthly sub (Grrrr) as it's what I know from the past. On that basis, I would like to put my effort into one platform and not duplicate kit that isn't being used every day.
My confusion is that part of me is happy with ITX and I have a strong interest in Dan's forthcoming C4 SFX, but the other part likes the multi M.2 mATX board with a PCIE slot to spare in not a lot more space.
To make the mATX rig suitable, I will need at least 16GB of RAM and an i5 CPU; maybe even a move to a Strix Z270G for using an unlocked i5.
If I do that, I am then 'stuck' in mATX land and would have to swap to ITX again for the C4... It's not a problem, but it's running round my head too much!
I currently have a dedicated portable gaming rig as per my sig below: i5 4670K / Max VII Impact / GTX 970 / 8GB DDR3 / 500GB SSD + 500GB HDD all in an SG13.
I also have my 'dev' PC that is doing nothing particular, other than helping work out a [glacially slow] case build.
That's based on a Prime B250M Plus with G4500 (cheap test CPU) and my old GTX660 with a 4GB RAM stick.
It is in a part made 17L mATX case that's a sort of (very) ghetto NCase M1 / Necere's Sept 2018 mATX design which I am working on slowly.
I am going back into more photography and need to commit to an imaging platform for raw files - maybe Photoshop monthly sub (Grrrr) as it's what I know from the past. On that basis, I would like to put my effort into one platform and not duplicate kit that isn't being used every day.
My confusion is that part of me is happy with ITX and I have a strong interest in Dan's forthcoming C4 SFX, but the other part likes the multi M.2 mATX board with a PCIE slot to spare in not a lot more space.
To make the mATX rig suitable, I will need at least 16GB of RAM and an i5 CPU; maybe even a move to a Strix Z270G for using an unlocked i5.
If I do that, I am then 'stuck' in mATX land and would have to swap to ITX again for the C4... It's not a problem, but it's running round my head too much!
