Small Form Factor Thread for the thin mini ITX builds

Cheers mate, I looked on hwmonitor earlier and saw all was fine, just the uefi reading crazy high.

 

Those voltages that it is reading, especially for the CPU, is the PLL voltage. Nothing to worry about. It's 1.8v at stock, but can run perfectly fine on 1.6v and can sometimes actually improve 24/7 ambient clocking abilities.

Look at your VID, that's the voltage it is running. Also, those temps would not be possible if it were at 1.7v ... trust me.

As far as your RAM goes, I would just think it's misreading from somewhere.

If you want to further reduce volts without being able to do it in the UEFI, download a program called ThrottleStop and play with that. I can get my Ultrabook down another 0.085v on the CPU whilst leaving it 100% stable. It produces far less heat because of it, key when you have a fan-less design.

On to the subject of cases... can anyone recommend me a possible suitable case that I can install an mITX board into, a full-size PSU and a few drives (two, at max) whilst sticking below or very close to the size of an original XBOX One? It also has to cost less than a fortune... trying to do that whole DVR project on the cheap, but not so cheap that I can't stand the look of it. I am a hardware enthusiast and a snob after all...

Edit: If a full-size PSU (TX 650 Modular, I have nothing smaller!) is an issue... I will grab an SFX unit to keep it in the size limitations. I have no issues with that.

One final thing: it has to have the ability to put a PCI-E expansion card into it... I need it for the TV Tuner card.

 

The Lian Li that Nikumba just posted in marketplace looks like a great candidate!

 

Bit big for a htpc / stb setup

 

Shipping it across the pond is going to pose an issue as well.

Either way, it’s just a tad larger than an Xbox... xD

 

Tmd, why not a usb tuner?

 

I’ll need to find out if they do them, because it needs to take a TV Card which I’ll get from our provider for $1.99 a month instead of $8.50. And I thought it was a rip at $5 a month, then I saw it was actually $8.50. Damn!

 

I think I’ve found the case I was after. It’s not super slim, but it’s smaller than an original Xbox One and will support much more than a super slim chassis. The price is hard to argue with as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-...etailBullets_secondary_view_div_1517851194237

 

@TheMadDutchDude I've still got that ML02 you asked about ages ago - no longer keen? I found it again t'other day! It's got a PSU built in, will take full size expansion, is small and quiet, and it's IN MY WAY haha

 

Benched my main rig and got the following:

Image Editing
103,061
Time:51.6974

Encoding
17,219
Time:309.408

OpenCL
71,422

KSamples/sec: 13150

Heavy Multitasking
14,991
Time:509.094

System Score
51,673

Final Spec:
i5-6400T
16GB DDR3L
Asus H170i-D3
Samsung NVMe 512GB SSD
Nocturna H/S Fan
Blower reference style 980GTX

Something feels a little off that I will need to fiddle with at somepoint.

 

It's still too big for what I need, Sam. It's also going to cost a fortune to get it over to me, which negates the point of sending it in the first place.

 

TED out of curiosity where are you in the US? I ship back and forth between NY and London, might be able to help?

 

I’m in Ohio, near Cleveland. Thank you for the offer, but that chassis simply won’t fit.

 

Yeah was thinking about it after I posted. We mainly ship laptops between the offices, so something that would fit inside the box would have been ok, but anything bigger is complicated.

 

Proud to present my new build in the NFC Skyreach 4 Mini

Specs are:

• i5 8400 (6 core, 65W)
• Noctua NH-L9i
• 32GB of HyperX 2666Mhz
• Asus Strix Z370
• Gigabyte GTX 1070 'ITX'
• 1tb Toshiba NVME SSD
• HDPlex 300W PSU & Dell 330w brick

CPU gets pretty toasty at times (75-85c) - I've got Asus Multi Core Enchancement switched on which means all cores hit 4Ghz at boost. GPU stays nice and cool (73c) though as draws air directly from the outside.

Footprint is absolutely tiny and its also nearly completely silent at idle (GPU fan stops, Noctua fan is, needless to say, very quiet indeed). Its also SUPER fast - boot up from power on is less than 14 seconds, and I get nearly 100 frames per second in PUBG.

Design is by NFC and manufacturing by Lian Li.

 

Lovely build Parge, and great product photography too!

 

What this guy said ^^

 

Loving the build, but dunno about Tom's attempt to sneak in a crotch shot....

 

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Biostar-Ra...378044&hash=item1a3279ff6b:g:EWsAAOSwaZJZiePv

Might be a bargain

 

So my little Euler box is going to be my main PC! Woo for SFF. I'll reinstall Windaz on it, and will bench it.