Bitfenix Prodigy itx.

trackrat · 11 Feb 2014 at 18:50

Has anyone used this case, what is it like for cooling?.
I am thinking of putting a Gigabyte ITX AMD board in with a Kaveri 7850K chip and cooled with a Corsair sealed liquid cooler.
Any input would be appreciated.

trackrat · 11 Feb 2014 at 22:08

Thanks for the advice about the side panel as I was looking at using a windowed side panel, will not be doing so now.

trackrat · 13 Feb 2014 at 16:08

LePhuronn said:
An APU ITX system in a Prodigy? Holy Wasted Space, Batman! If you're not going to use a dedicated GPU then you can get away with something really quite small. You also may not need the AIO water cooler either and go for a good, low-profile air cooler instead.

What's your full spec going to be? Case suggestions will be determined by the kit you're putting in.

Full Spec,
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Graphics Card Socket FM2+
AMD A10 AD785KXBJABOX 7850K Black Edition with Radeon R7 Series New FM2+ Kaveri H
Crucial DDR3 PC3-12800 • 9-9-9-24 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600
MSI Radeon R7 260X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Crucial M500 240GB mSATA Internal SSD
Seagate barracuda 500GB HD
Be Quiet 600w PSU.

So if not the Prodigy, what would be the best case for the above components.

trackrat · 13 Feb 2014 at 19:59

LePhuronn, thanks for your reply it has given me something to think about.
The Corsair cooler and the BeQuiet modular PSU were going to be carried over from my old system.
I picked AMD originally because I have nearly always used Amd, even though Intel chips are superior.
I also thought that you could dual graphic with the APU and card.
I obviously need to do a lot more research before I order anything.