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Recently I found myself with a mini ITX motherboard and got a Ghost S1 case for it. The space saved and convenience of such a small factor is life changing. I’m

Recently I found myself with a mini ITX motherboard and got a Ghost S1 case for it. The space saved and convenience of such a small factor is life changing. I’m never going back to ATX and big towers.

ncrmro 4y ago
I got a Raw S1 which I love form factor wise. My Ryzen 5800X3D I think has issues with c states which caused reboots from low to high power states. Thought it was the 3800RTX and 600w PSU. Upgrade SFX-l which has you loose the rear 120mm fan. Whole thing really started to cook itself till I disabled the c state and switched back to the 600w
ct0 4y ago
Did the same thing, harder to build but the space savings is fantastic.
- noncoml 4y ago
  Yeah, you need to plan your build order a bit. Can’t just shove everything in and then find out you didn’t connect the cpu power
outworlder 4y ago
I have a meshlicious. I can fit a full ATX PSU no problem (could have more SSDs or 2.5" drives otherwise). Because it's a "sandwitch", the GPU and CPU are drawing air from opposite sides of the case. It's all mesh so airflow is great. Pretty small too. Not as small as your Ghost, but it can accommodate really large GPUs if need be. Even watercooling would be viable (I've seen some great custom loops, for the CPU even a two fan AIO would fit). I do miss ATX because ITX boards generally do not have any expansion slots. Sure they come with Wifi, but if I decide to, say add a 2.5G(or 10G) network card, video capture or what have you, I'm out of luck. I do not miss the case sizes. ATX are spacious, but TOO spacious, usually. Because the mainboard is large, most cases don't seem to optimize for space at all. So you fill the thing to the brim with all expansions you can think of and there's still a lot of wasted volume. Were I to go back to ATX, it would be with a non-orthodox case(open case, inside a desk, etc).
- noncoml 4y ago
  Not big fun of the Meshlicious. Having the video output come out of the bottom feels weird. Also imho it’s wasting a bit of space here and there.

ncrmro 4y ago

I got a Raw S1 which I love form factor wise. My Ryzen 5800X3D I think has issues with c states which caused reboots from low to high power states. Thought it was the 3800RTX and 600w PSU. Upgrade SFX-l which has you loose the rear 120mm fan. Whole thing really started to cook itself till I disabled the c state and switched back to the 600w

ct0 4y ago

Did the same thing, harder to build but the space savings is fantastic.

noncoml 4y ago
Yeah, you need to plan your build order a bit. Can’t just shove everything in and then find out you didn’t connect the cpu power

outworlder 4y ago

I have a meshlicious. I can fit a full ATX PSU no problem (could have more SSDs or 2.5" drives otherwise). Because it's a "sandwitch", the GPU and CPU are drawing air from opposite sides of the case. It's all mesh so airflow is great. Pretty small too. Not as small as your Ghost, but it can accommodate really large GPUs if need be. Even watercooling would be viable (I've seen some great custom loops, for the CPU even a two fan AIO would fit). I do miss ATX because ITX boards generally do not have any expansion slots. Sure they come with Wifi, but if I decide to, say add a 2.5G(or 10G) network card, video capture or what have you, I'm out of luck. I do not miss the case sizes. ATX are spacious, but TOO spacious, usually. Because the mainboard is large, most cases don't seem to optimize for space at all. So you fill the thing to the brim with all expansions you can think of and there's still a lot of wasted volume. Were I to go back to ATX, it would be with a non-orthodox case(open case, inside a desk, etc).

noncoml 4y ago
Not big fun of the Meshlicious. Having the video output come out of the bottom feels weird. Also imho it’s wasting a bit of space here and there.