Micro ITX System for 4K Gaming

jc0 · 29 Oct 2015 at 11:59

Hi All,

I'm looking to build a Micro ITX system for 4k Gaming in my living room. I want to be able to play Witcher 3 and GTA V etc. with the graphics options turned up as high as is possible at the moment. This probably means I need 980 Ti's in SLI(?) and as I don't want to get involved with custom loop water-cooling, I'm thinking an AIO option such as the EVGA Hybrid is the best route to go. I've spec'd the system up below. My main worry is fitting the two 120mm/radiators attached to the 980 Ti Hybrids into the Corsair 240 Air case. Does anyone have any experience with this or see any other potential problems I might run into?

Many thanks in advance!

Spec:

Case - Corsair 240 Air
PSU - EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold'
Motherboard - EVGA X99 Micro2 Micro ATX
CPU - Intel i7-5820k 3.30GHz (Haswell-E)
CPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX
Memory - Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 3200MHz
Graphics Card 1 - EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid
Graphics Card 2 - EVGA 980 Ti Hybrid
SSD 1 - Samsung 128GB 850 PRO SATA 6Gbps
SSD 2 - Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SATA 6Gbps

Legion · 29 Oct 2015 at 18:09

I'd wait until next year and the new 16nm GPU's if I were you.
Single card 4k will be much better than what is is now.

New tv's with more HDR support as well next year and better, faster screens.
Loads of people in the same boat hanging on for this.

However, if you still want to build now, I'd steer away from m-ATX and the air 240 for an SLI setup.
This is from a noise perspective, if you like quiet, this won't be fun to live with.

LePhuronn · 10 Nov 2015 at 17:13

To be honest a lot of the beefy aftermarket coolers for graphics cards are plenty silent, and will be cheaper than getting AIO units for each. I have a few friends who can't rate the MSI Twin Frozr coolers highly enough. They do circulate air back into the case though, so you'd need decent airflow to even pull off 1 card.

nox_uk · 10 Nov 2015 at 18:19

And for any vaguely compact build you want the air going out of the case. I'd even be happy to see a 3 slot design cool that pushed all air out the back absolutely silently

lsg1r · 10 Nov 2015 at 19:18

Pretty sure you won't be able to fit in all the rads you're after in the corsair air 240 with a matx motherboard.

Front would take the 240mm cpu cooler. The 2x120mm fans would go where? The 'bottom' doesn't have enough space for a rad when it has a matx board in it and there's not really room at the 'top' either, you might get one there depending on board layout. If it was a custom loop people have been fitting a rad in the hard drive/psu bay underneath the motherboard

Poneros · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:41

LePhuronn said:
To be honest a lot of the beefy aftermarket coolers for graphics cards are plenty silent, and will be cheaper than getting AIO units for each.

Silent in ATX cases maybe, try that in mATX.. not so silent.

@OP, you won't fit in 3 AIOs in the case. Check this for an example tho: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/building-the-ultimate-matx-sli-pc-with-intels-5960/1100-6423349/

LePhuronn · 7 Dec 2015 at 12:51

Poneros said:
Silent in ATX cases maybe, try that in mATX.. not so silent.

I've had no noise problems with Twin Frozr and Strix coolers in ITX cases, but of course YMMV. If anything it'd be the CPU cooler spinning up a bit more to compensate for the GPU heat being dumped back into the case since most of these beefy coolers aren't blowers.

skaif · 7 Dec 2015 at 15:16

I have the enthoo itx case from phanteks with a 280mm AIO up top and a 120mm AIO at the back exhausting. No reason why I can't get 2 more AIO in the front as I have 2x140mm intake fans with room to spare.