Evening all.
I've had the building bug for a while and love SFF / ITX builds. After a while I started thinking 'how small can a fully featured build get?' and, of course, I ended up building something. My criteria were for it to be easily portable, fully self-contained (no power bricks), capable of HD multimedia and gaming, and to contain an optical disc drive.
I settled on the Inwin BQ656 case, the overshadowed little brother of the Inwin Chopin which has received a lot of attention on Youtube. This case is unique as it allows for a slim optical drive and 2.5" storage drive behind the motherboard, as opposed to just two 2.5" drives in the Chopin. It may not have brushed aluminum wrapped over it, but this is a very functional and compact case, coming in at 3.3L with integral 120W PSU.
Specs:
MSI B450 board
Ryzen 2400G APU
Corsair 2x4GB 3000MHz DDR4 -> HyperX Fury 2666 -> GSKILL 3000
WD Green 240GB M.2 drive
Silverstone ODD
Thats about it. The stock AMD 'Wraith Stealth' cooler took some modification to go into this tiny case, which was done by removing the trim ring and standoffs from the core fan unit followed by carving down the fan shroud and filing the case cutout edge. The case side mesh was taken off for filing the edge down and the replaced. This allowed the stock cooler to fit in just fine.
I have yet to give the system any demanding loads but it boots up just fine with Windows 10 and runs all basic tasks I've thrown at it easily. I'm keen to start overclocking the GPU portion of 2400G to see what I can get out of it, and I'll try and push the RAM to 3200MHz to help with graphics performance as well.
Cheers - boingk
I've had the building bug for a while and love SFF / ITX builds. After a while I started thinking 'how small can a fully featured build get?' and, of course, I ended up building something. My criteria were for it to be easily portable, fully self-contained (no power bricks), capable of HD multimedia and gaming, and to contain an optical disc drive.
I settled on the Inwin BQ656 case, the overshadowed little brother of the Inwin Chopin which has received a lot of attention on Youtube. This case is unique as it allows for a slim optical drive and 2.5" storage drive behind the motherboard, as opposed to just two 2.5" drives in the Chopin. It may not have brushed aluminum wrapped over it, but this is a very functional and compact case, coming in at 3.3L with integral 120W PSU.
Specs:
MSI B450 board
Ryzen 2400G APU
WD Green 240GB M.2 drive
Silverstone ODD
Thats about it. The stock AMD 'Wraith Stealth' cooler took some modification to go into this tiny case, which was done by removing the trim ring and standoffs from the core fan unit followed by carving down the fan shroud and filing the case cutout edge. The case side mesh was taken off for filing the edge down and the replaced. This allowed the stock cooler to fit in just fine.
I have yet to give the system any demanding loads but it boots up just fine with Windows 10 and runs all basic tasks I've thrown at it easily. I'm keen to start overclocking the GPU portion of 2400G to see what I can get out of it, and I'll try and push the RAM to 3200MHz to help with graphics performance as well.
Cheers - boingk
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