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I just assembled a mini-ITX computer recently. It's amazing having the entire system on a 6x6 inch motherboard. A few inches deep for the CPU cooler. The NVMe S

I just assembled a mini-ITX computer recently. It's amazing having the entire system on a 6x6 inch motherboard. A few inches deep for the CPU cooler. The NVMe SSD is inside the motherboard. I do have a gigantic external GPU which almost doubles the size of the entire system, and because of that I also need a decently big power supply. But the entire system is literally just incredictlmotherboard + attached GPU + power supply. Being able to fit it all into a NZXT H210 (still relatively big compared many other SFF cases) is great, especially for transporting it between college and home. It was about 50% cheaper than buying an equivalently specced laptop. And any laptop with this performance would need to be really big and heavy to accommodate the cooling requirements (45 watt CPU, 220 watt GPU).

tabulatouch 6y ago
Very interested in knowing the specs of your setup and how you saved.
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  AMD 3800x processor (8c/16t @ around 4.5 GHz), $330 AMD 5700xt GPU, $450 for the better versions 512 GB Corsair Force MP600 (5gbit/s NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD), around $115 iirc 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM for around $90 iirc ASUS mini-itx X570 motherboard, around $200-250 - X570 is the highest tier of AMD chipsets but is needed for PCIe 4.0. Could save $100 here with a lower SSD. This one also has the latest Intel WiFi 6 chipset. $100 for power supply, $100 for case, $30 for quieter fans. Including tax and everything the total came out to around $1600. After deciding the specs I spent some time looking for comparable laptops and they were all much more expensive. I didn't do anything special to save. You could get this exact same build for a bit cheaper today I think; I did this in November. I just purchased a second one of the same GPU this week and it was $20 cheaper. The other components have probably also had some drops in price.

tabulatouch 6y ago

Very interested in knowing the specs of your setup and how you saved.

the_pwner224 6y ago
AMD 3800x processor (8c/16t @ around 4.5 GHz), $330 AMD 5700xt GPU, $450 for the better versions 512 GB Corsair Force MP600 (5gbit/s NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD), around $115 iirc 32 GB DDR4-3200 RAM for around $90 iirc ASUS mini-itx X570 motherboard, around $200-250 - X570 is the highest tier of AMD chipsets but is needed for PCIe 4.0. Could save $100 here with a lower SSD. This one also has the latest Intel WiFi 6 chipset. $100 for power supply, $100 for case, $30 for quieter fans. Including tax and everything the total came out to around $1600. After deciding the specs I spent some time looking for comparable laptops and they were all much more expensive. I didn't do anything special to save. You could get this exact same build for a bit cheaper today I think; I did this in November. I just purchased a second one of the same GPU this week and it was $20 cheaper. The other components have probably also had some drops in price.