Stumpy's mITX Gaming Build!

[GoStumpy]

So things are moving along faster than expected, I picked up a PSU and Mobo 70% off Newegg Refurb deal, and am looking at making a deal locally for a used i5-6600K and a GTX1070... way more than I would have bought if buying new!

So screw the budget it looks like I'm building a beast!

Case: Fractal Design Core 500 - $80
PSU: Corsair CS550M 550w Gold Modular PSU - $70
Mobo: MSI Z170I Pro Gaming mITX - $127
CPU: Intel i5-6600K 3.5ghz - $300
GPU: MSI GTX1070 Gaming 8GB - $400
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3000 - $165
SSD: WD Black m2-2280 512GB NVMe - $250
Cooler: Corsair H110i 280mm Cooling Loop - $155

Total: $1547 CDN

I'll wait and see if I can get a cooler, ram, and ssd on sale at some point..

Looking to play Overwatch and maybe Battlefield1 at 1200p Resolution.

 

[GoStumpy]

Put it all together today, now I'm just waiting for my DDR4 memory to arrive to boot it up!!

 

[whm1974]

You should have waited until you received your memory. It will be a PITA to install it since you will most likely take the build apart again.

 

[GoStumpy]

Nah, I checked I'll have to unmount the radiator but that's it

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Where do you have the radiator mounted? (Maybe that photo didn't load?)

A little disappointed you aren't getting the gpu wc'd too. In that style case, with that gpu cooler, you're going to probably have so,e higher temps.

 

[GoStumpy]

Hopefully it won't be too bad, there entire side near the GPU is vented, so the GPU will be pulling air from outside the case, and the radiator fans and the rear fan are exhaust, so the air will be coming in that side vent for sure.

Perhaps in the future I will get brave enough to do a custom W/C loop, it would be very hard in this case though, it's pretty darn small! The hardest part was keeping the WC hoses from touching the fans on the bottom of the radiator.

I'll snap another photo tomorrow with the case off but everything in there... radiator is mounted on the top, fans pushing air thru the radiator and out of the case.

 

[Campy]

Nice, I've always wanted to do an ITX build so I'm really envious

edit: You got the m.2 SSD already right?

 

[GoStumpy]

Couple more pics showing the radiator in final location:

Yes I have a WD Black 256GB m.2 SSD on the Mobo, it was too long but I just used double sided foam tape to hold it in place

 

[VirtualLarry]

Looks real nice... and compact!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'm impressed. I'm not sure what difference it would make to replace the MSI GTX 1070 with my Gigabyte 1070 version "OC Mini." With my airflow, temperatures didn't rise above 60C much for stressing or gaming at 1920x1080 resolution. At 2560x1440, peak temperatures are around 70C.

I've never focused as much on compact designs with small footprints. It seems to me that you've met that objective as well as all others with your build. Very neat.

I bought my i7-6700K re-lidded with CLU. It means an improvement in temperatures of 12C -- which will vary a bit more or less, but Silly-Lots has enough experience at it that they'd reduce the variance. Not something I was willing to do myself, but the service had a price-tag of $50.