Hey everyone! Like many folks here, I was drawn into this community thanks to the Formd T1, but my obsession with small actually started elsewhere.
Last year I was planning out a new build and decided to go balls-to-the-wall with the highest end parts I could justify. I also wanted to go with custom water-cooling and as a bonus challenge, keep the footprint as small as possible. I'm a huge fan of minimalism and efficiency.
In the land of general consumer PC cases, this meant I was looking at the NZXT H210i, which is what my (now complete) build resides in. Little did I know that the H210i is a chonky boy in the world of SFF. While cases like the Ghost S1 were on my radar, and somewhat appealing to me, I was dead set on water-cooling, and I didn't care for the way the top hats broke up the clean look of the case. There weren't any options that appealed to me and allowed me to retain my full water-cooled setup with a 9900k and 2080ti.
I still loved the idea of going smaller, though, so I started following the (formerly) Sidearmd T1 on this forum, after seeing Ali (Optimum Tech)'s video on the prototype during Computex last year. It checked all of my boxes, but he cautioned that he had seen several prototypes he had covered before fail to come to market, so I just kept lurking here, and went ahead with my 210i build.
Once the T1 thread blew up with Ali's more recent videos, I decided to finally join up. I'm super happy with my current build, but I already have the itch to go even smaller and join the true ranks of SFF.
Thanks for reading my story, I'm super excited to join this community.
Also, here's my current build, looking forward to going even smaller!
Last year I was planning out a new build and decided to go balls-to-the-wall with the highest end parts I could justify. I also wanted to go with custom water-cooling and as a bonus challenge, keep the footprint as small as possible. I'm a huge fan of minimalism and efficiency.
In the land of general consumer PC cases, this meant I was looking at the NZXT H210i, which is what my (now complete) build resides in. Little did I know that the H210i is a chonky boy in the world of SFF. While cases like the Ghost S1 were on my radar, and somewhat appealing to me, I was dead set on water-cooling, and I didn't care for the way the top hats broke up the clean look of the case. There weren't any options that appealed to me and allowed me to retain my full water-cooled setup with a 9900k and 2080ti.
I still loved the idea of going smaller, though, so I started following the (formerly) Sidearmd T1 on this forum, after seeing Ali (Optimum Tech)'s video on the prototype during Computex last year. It checked all of my boxes, but he cautioned that he had seen several prototypes he had covered before fail to come to market, so I just kept lurking here, and went ahead with my 210i build.
Once the T1 thread blew up with Ali's more recent videos, I decided to finally join up. I'm super happy with my current build, but I already have the itch to go even smaller and join the true ranks of SFF.
Thanks for reading my story, I'm super excited to join this community.
Also, here's my current build, looking forward to going even smaller!
