High-end mini-ITX gaming rig

voidshatter

voidshatter

voidshatter

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What are your thought on these two builds? Might get the v3 of DAN Cases. Also might wait for GTX 1180 instead of getting ripped off by Titan V. Might also order customised cables from CableMod for appropriate lengths.

Personally I prefer the Coffee Lake build because I want more stability. Though Ryzen looks better at thread-intensive tasks such like video editing/encoding, but less relevant for gaming.

Coffee Lake variant:

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Ryzen variant:

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I would go for an case with a slightly larger volume, will be a quicker system as you could use an 8700K and even overclock a bit, I would not spend £800 on an NVME SSD either, so have added a 900p (fastest thing going) and a 1TB NVME Samsung which will still be overkill for most uses I would think, no Titan V on OcUK...

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,953.79 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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I ended up going with an In-Win 301 with my mITX build, mainly because my graphics card was too large for 99% of ITX cases!! Glad I did tbh, it's excellent for cooling and very quiet during gaming (2 120mm fans under the gfx keeping it nice and cool), Noctua D15 on the cpu with a silent 140mm fan). My8700k is delided though, which helps a great deal.
 
BongoHunter said:
I would go for an case with a slightly larger volume, will be a quicker system as you could use an 8700K and even overclock a bit, I would not spend £800 on an NVME SSD either, so have added a 900p (fastest thing going) and a 1TB NVME Samsung which will still be overkill for most uses I would think, no Titan V on OcUK...
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I've looked into the Lian-Li Q38 and it's a nice setup with the Noctua U9S cooler you picked. Though it's still a bit too bulky (almost 3x the volume?).

One good reason for the 8700T is the wattage saved so I can make a Titan V along with it and squeeze them within the 450W bracket for the fanless SFX power supply.
 
To go for a fanless PSU - with the load a Titan V could put it under your going to need a reasonable amount of airflow over the PSU, and with the noise of a Titan V stock cooler, what advantage is a fanless PSU going to provide?

Some aspects of this build are strangley at odds with one another!
 
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What advantage does Ghost S1 provide? Extended cover? Who's the manufacturer? One good reason for Dan Cases is that it's made by Lian-Li.
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You can stick 2x 240x60mm thick rads in there with push pull. Can have unlimited HDD/SSD
Allows larger top down coolers .
Because of the design Dan is now doing a version with 240mm think AIO .
Also makes from milled aluminium and not pressed sheets riveted together .
If you lake A4, just get a Kolink rocket which again has space for slightly larger Cooler and 90mm PWM fan at the top as A4 suffers badly there and is cheaper :)
 
BongoHunter said:
what advantage is a fanless PSU going to provide?
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A fanless PSU does not have an extra fan to spin up and stop now and then from idle to load and from load to idle. I once had a Corsair AX860i and I got crazy with the spinning noise of the fan - I couldn't prevent the fan from stopping so it had the activation noise again and again.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
You can stick 2x 240x60mm thick rads in there with push pull. Can have unlimited HDD/SSD
Allows larger top down coolers .
Because of the design Dan is now doing a version with 240mm think AIO .
Also makes from milled aluminium and not pressed sheets riveted together .
If you lake A4, just get a Kolink rocket which again has space for slightly larger Cooler and 90mm PWM fan at the top as A4 suffers badly there and is cheaper :)
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Well I don't need watercooling (I hate clicking noise of faulty water pump and hate maintenance even more), and I don't need any extra HDD/SSD (I hate SATA cables and power cables, and I hate managing various disks/partitions even more. A neat 2TB M.2 NVME with a single paritition is all what I'll install.)

Please educate me on these specs cuz I'm not quite good at it:

DAN Cases A4-SFX: 1.25kg, 7.3L
Louqe Ghost S1: 2.5kg, 8.2L
Kolink Rocket: 3.5kg, 9.6L

Why should I pick the heavier options? I seriously doubt the crusade of searching for a top down cooler better than the Nocta L9i is gonna end up failure. (Edit: just saw official specs of L9x65 - how much better than L9i?)
 
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voidshatter said:
A fanless PSU does not have an extra fan to spin up and stop now and then from idle to load and from load to idle. I once had a Corsair AX860i and I got crazy with the spinning noise of the fan - I couldn't prevent the fan from stopping so it had the activation noise again and again.
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Fair enough - might be worth having a look and seeing if there are any suitable PSU's with something like Corsair Link or controllable fans, E.G https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...lar-power-supply-cp-9020072-uk-ca-181-cs.html which is probably a little bit big for what your after - but I dont know if smaller ones are available or other vendors have an equivalent.

Connect the included cable to a motherboard USB header and download the free Corsair Link Dashboard application for Windows and you can monitor performance and efficiency, toggle single rail or multi rail mode, and control fan speed directly from your desktop.
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Missing: GTX 1180, i7-8700T, Silverstone NJ450-SXL

To do: measure lengths and get customised cables from CableMod.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,070.37 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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