I have a problem. I have too much stuff, yet I don’t like selling stuff. I hoard. Ever since I came back into pc building about 3 years ago, and built my first SFF system, I haven’t stopped. Tinkering in SFF became my hobby and passion.
Currently I have most of my stuff in bins. 18 of these to be exact:
Sterilite 19849806 18 Quart/17 Liter... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BA5F52?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
So, how do you guys organize your spare parts and cases?
Rewinding a little bit... My old pc was a QX9560 / GT8800 SLI, then a QX9560 / GTX 285, which eventually became a QX9560 / GTX 580 / with SSD. The old system was in a Rocketfish (Bestbuy private label) aluminum full tower. It was very high quality, and I suspect it was a Lian Li tower. Eventually I had to start over with a new platform, as I was limited to 8gb of ram. And the cpu was bottlenecking a GTX 1080 FE. The reason I skipped 3 generations was because I mostly played Diablo 3.
So present day, I first got an NCase M1, loved it, but had to tinker big, went on to try out all the different M1 cooling configurations. From U9S, to dual 120mm AIO, to the C14 big air configuration... I tried them all. I also tried building inside of many other cases, for fun. I went down the deep rabbit hole of custom water cooling in a Nano S. Ultimately, I came back to the M1, and built a full custom loop in the M1. It was glorious. As I start to run out of time with growing family, and less interest in maintaining water loops, I’m back to the “big air” cooling with a window in the M1.
So over the years, I’ve gathered a lot of cases and components. I have 6-7 cases laying around. Countless 92,120, and 140mm fans, all kinds of brackets for different drives for different cases, radiators ranging from 92mm to 360mm, in various thicknesses. I have every soft tubing fitting imaginable. I have at least 3 reservoirs, 4 different pumps, quick disconnect fittings, etc. I have at least 4-5 kits of SFF PSU (HDPlex, KMPKT, G-unique). I have just about every SFF cpu cooler under the sun.
So present day, I first got an NCase M1, loved it, but had to tinker big, went on to try out all the different M1 cooling configurations. From U9S, to dual 120mm AIO, to the C14 big air configuration... I tried them all. I also tried building inside of many other cases, for fun. I went down the deep rabbit hole of custom water cooling in a Nano S. Ultimately, I came back to the M1, and built a full custom loop in the M1. It was glorious. As I start to run out of time with growing family, and less interest in maintaining water loops, I’m back to the “big air” cooling with a window in the M1.
So over the years, I’ve gathered a lot of cases and components. I have 6-7 cases laying around. Countless 92,120, and 140mm fans, all kinds of brackets for different drives for different cases, radiators ranging from 92mm to 360mm, in various thicknesses. I have every soft tubing fitting imaginable. I have at least 3 reservoirs, 4 different pumps, quick disconnect fittings, etc. I have at least 4-5 kits of SFF PSU (HDPlex, KMPKT, G-unique). I have just about every SFF cpu cooler under the sun.
Currently I have most of my stuff in bins. 18 of these to be exact:
Sterilite 19849806 18 Quart/17 Liter... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BA5F52?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
So, how do you guys organize your spare parts and cases?