Yes they can, have you seen the S4M/S4M-C?, the case is a heatsink itself if you build it right.. and it has amazing ventilation thanks to Josh's patented Skyslots. I myself have been able to drop my max long-term-use GPU temps by 2-3c by applying a thermal pad to mate the end of my GPU heatsink fins and the 5mm wrap-around bezel, making the wrap-around an amazing GPU heatsink extension.Blasting thru Cinebench R20 & TimeSpy runs, no more than a handful or so of minutes spent going full-throttle is one thing, but can these diminutive powerhouses give the same performance while editing & rendering all day long?
Not disparaging any particular chassis, just a general thought...
I specifically avoid the tophat top shave some volume, you know, air space ?Shouldn't all that be calculated with a bounding box?
Take the extrusion dims (L x W), add 72mm to the height of the extrusion; and don't forget to add the height of the feet...!
August update
Nice to see I'm still in 6th despite all the awesome nice and tiny builds. Looking forward to round 4!
Come on folks, let's get three more entries in here before the Ampere cards start showing up...!
Regarding chassis bounding box volume measurements...
Might we all agree to take the nubbin of the top of a PCIe bracket out of the equation...?
Example: Cooler Master NR200
376 x 185 x 292mm incl. Protrusions, 360 x 185 x 274mm excl. Protrusions
The 274mm without protrusions height & the 292mm with is because of the feet, which we all understand as necessary, air gotta move somehow...
But the 360mm without protrusions & the 376mm with is that tiny bit of PCIe bracket protruding out...
With protrusions the NR200 is 20.3 liters, subtracting the volume caused by just the bit of PCIe bracket gives us 19.45 liters (which makes the NR200 SFF)...
Almost a liter of extra volume for a slip of metal...? I know this will vary from chassis to chassis, more for some, less for others...
But is it not a part of the equation that should be discarded...?!?