I'm scaling down my current ITX build for something that will fit under my TV a little better no name yet, but I'm sure it will come soon. I'll be using this build for streaming from my main rig, HTPC activities, and recording console peasant game play. Might give Steam OS a try for a bit as well! Onto the specs! Intel 4790k or 5775C - Haven't quite decided this yet, I'm going to attempt to delid for my first time so maybe whichever one survives eh? EVGA Stinger Z97 WiFi - this unfortunately might have to change due to the WiFi card sticking up like it does, but hopefully not. 2x4GB Corsair XMS RAM + EK Monarch Modules MSI 980 Ti Lightning! Silverstone SFX 600W 2x Intel 530 180GB SSDs in RAID 0 Slot Load Blu-Ray drive Silverstone FTZ01 EK Liquid Cooling! Soooo as most builds start, I had very small plans with this, was going to air cool and everything. Then the more I sat on it and saw others doing liquid in this case, I figured I may as well do it as well, of course. So without further ado... lets start. Don't mind the fingerprints, will be cleaned up a bit later. Pretty standard SFF case. I went with the FTZ01 for the aluminum unibody Whoever started doing this layout first with the GPU brackets is genius. Very subtle logo, love it. Got two fans on the bottom for GPU/radiator and one for the PSU One on the top for CPU/Rad Looks a bit crowded already... Take that bit off though and it reveals a bit more space Lovely 15mm thick fans Cable management going to be fun... Board fitted SSDs + Slim slot ODD The beast... Not that you can tell, but man is it a tight fit I put an SSD between the GPU and fans to hold off on the sag for now.
Quick unboxing of the MSI 980 Ti Lightning here. MSI did an amazing job keeping a high end GPU, classy. So shiny, like a holographic Pokemon card Details and such on the back A chest! Beautiful finish The king has arrived So cozy Accessory box
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It's ITX overload tonight, with this and the Nightblade getting dremelled. Take a nice little case and shove in an unfeasibly large graphics card and water cool the lot with apparently no room to do it in. Mod on sir!
Been traveling but I brought the rig with me to do some on-the-road-modding with a familiar face Anyone recognize? Unfortunately it will not fit Back to Bitspower... Had to shave down the hole we drilled earlier in order to make the plug flush for the lid to close properly Started sleeving... While none other than Peter Brands (L3P) started cutting the Lightning stock cooler Great photo! But all sleeved The plan! MSI wanted to maintain their branding, this way I can have it hooked it up the GPU still and plus it will bring more air into the radiator To accommodate the pwm cable from the Lightning fan assembly we needed to cut the radiator Yours truly doing the honors: Perfect! We had to cut down the 120 rad too... super tight fit, every mm counts Now... to extend the slot in the front of the case that would normally be used by the DVD drive...instead we are putting the RGB glowing logo from the Lightning Cleaning up the cut... Now with both the RGB logo and fan assembly: Coming together again... Now in Zagreb for InfoGamer show! Thanks!
Update to Z170! This board is soooo much more SFF friendly it's ridiculous. The layout makes everything much easier, the top 120 rad now fits much much better. Changed to a pair of slightly larger drives I had sitting around. The main reason was because they're black compared to the silver Intel's. They look much better now. See, all black. Don't mind the orange, it's just to make sure nothing leaks before adding the top cover with 120 rad. The case is a little beat up from traveling it needs some love. And together! I think I'm going to cut another 240 grill on the top of this side to help with the exhaust of hot air, and to spice it up a bit eh.
Hi, nice build, well what I can see of it, do you know how to use MS Paint ? It doesn't take very long to use a graphics program to resize your pictures, you can use MS Paint to do it Thanks in advance
