bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 8m 28d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 19/01/21 07:13 AM Share Posted 19/01/21 07:13 AM got Mrs BCB's parts today hope it goes together ok the CPU fan /heatsink is always a worry using a mini-ITX case so not to appear as a hypocrite, I'll post a couple of build pics tonight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,072 Member For: 16y 8m 20d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 19/01/21 07:46 AM Author Share Posted 19/01/21 07:46 AM yeah, can always trim down the heat-sink haha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 8m 28d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 19/01/21 09:02 AM Share Posted 19/01/21 09:02 AM Mini-ITX literally fits in the palm of your hand (sort of) re-used Mrs BCB's old SSD the fan protrudes a fraction 2 much I'll have to take that top shroud off the fan and do a few mods the side panel does have a dish but it misses by a couple of mm fired it up and the hardware recognized the old drive and booted straight to it haven't even gone into the BIOS yet to setup anything! Cat is totally unimpressed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 8m 28d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 19/01/21 09:15 AM Share Posted 19/01/21 09:15 AM cable management in a mini-ITX case the struggle is real 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosturd Member 60 Member For: 8y 9m 28d Posted 19/01/21 09:36 AM Share Posted 19/01/21 09:36 AM Struggle? Pfft you've nailed it! Would love to do a build like this one day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 8m 28d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 20/01/21 07:46 AM Share Posted 20/01/21 07:46 AM I'm now an AMD fan boy took the fan off to mod it to fit inside the case turned it over and spied a small screw undid it and hey presto the top part of the fan shroud un-clips from the bottom fan now fits in the case did some cable cramming now all done and dusted 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 13y 29d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 22/01/21 06:27 AM Share Posted 22/01/21 06:27 AM FFS the AMD waterblock bracket only gets here next week Wednesday, which is fly out day for me. I will not be here when it arrives. I am so Annoyed at EKWB right now. I tried to get the AMD GPU into the case, but there was an issue. see if you can spot the problem??? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 10m 5d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 22/01/21 06:54 AM Share Posted 22/01/21 06:54 AM Can you unmount the reservoir to let it fit while you play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 8m 28d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 22/01/21 08:11 AM Share Posted 22/01/21 08:11 AM I tried to get the AMD GPU into the case, but there was an issue. see if you can spot the problem???Wow, that's one behemoth of a graphics card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 10m 5d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 22/01/21 01:34 PM Share Posted 22/01/21 01:34 PM It'll fit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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