Can I downsize to a small form factor?

Soldato
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Hey all

I use my PC in the Living room essentially as a gaming console set up.

Currently I have a TV unit big enough that I can hide the tower behind the TV itself. (Due to the stand on the TV, it sits far away from the wall allowing a tower to sit above. Hard to explain)

Anyway, I'd like to change the TV unit and potentially mount the TV. But in doing so I can no longer hide my current pc and it will stand out too much to keep set up.

My specs at the moment are roughly as follows
3600 CPU
RTX2060S
B450M Mortar Max mobo
Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
SN750 NVMe
Some generic standard HDD
Seasonic Prime Ultra Snow Silent 650W 80

All housed in a Coolmaster Masterbox Lite 3.1 case.

Will I be looking at an ITX case, motherboard and that's it or is there more to it? Will other components need to change etc.

Thanks for any advice give

Matt

Here's a picture of how I roll at the moment :D

The TV stand itself was so large that I made an aluminium table to site over the top of it, and then placed the pc on top of that.

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Once you start looking at ITX cases, you will be surprised how small you can go.

To get into the much smaller size cases you will need to be looking at an SFX sized PSU too, it'll be about the size of your hand, it's incredibly small.
Even some of the smallest ITX cases, such as the DAN A4 that I was using, support HDDs, but only in the 2.5" form factor.
 
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