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so what do you get when you buy a case that is only 13

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plus a few bucks for shipping well

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if i'm being honest not enough for us but here at LTT we are

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all about cramming as much power as possible into anything that comes

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through the door so of course this baby needed some major

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modifications

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the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you

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guessed it compact check it out through amazon or newegg at the links below

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so the experience of buying this case then you really do get what you pay for

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sometimes when it arrived i told alex gee man i really wish we'd ordered the

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black version and he responds well you actually don't get to pick a color it's

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just luck of the draw brilliant first impressions though it's

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considerably smaller than we thought in

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the description it does say mini itx

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case and it does say pos

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but it doesn't say anything about being so small

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that it doesn't even have a mount for a power supply to its credit the

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does this thing even have a model number no all right then the construction of

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the small exclusive custom is pretty solid compared to some of the other

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cheap cases that we've had around here so the first aid kit stayed where it

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belongs above the fridge missing screws and lack of instructions

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aside for 13.50 cents it's hard to complain about much besides the size we

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went about seeing then what all we could fit in this thing

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fortunately we had a pico power supply on hand so we built a system in it with

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that but frankly it kind of sucked at only about 60 watts

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and with a four pin connector that we janked together there was just no way

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that this thing was going to end up Linus tech tips grade

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which isn't to say that we didn't try but our core i7 7700k had to be

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underclocked to 3 gigahertz from 4.5 and

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have half of its cores disabled and even then it was so questionably stable that

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it didn't even post downstairs where the lighting and construction going on right

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now mean that the wall power isn't as clean no

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if we're gonna build a worthy system in here we're gonna need a little bit of

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inspiration from roadkill plus the angle grinder man is knocking at the door and

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it seems rude not to let him in

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so we went down to the workshop and planned out where the cuts would need to

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be in the top of the case using calipers and rulers to aid our measurements given

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we only have one of these cases it wasn't a measure once cut thrice kind of

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situation after marking out the cuts we got out the aluminum cutting disk and

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went to work

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and wow it seems to fit so we actually wanted to

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reuse the drive mounting that came with the case but invert it so that we could

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use it to hold our hd plex 300 watt dc

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to dc power supply that we stole from the s4 mini so we wanted that underneath

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the case so we got out the center punch and

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slammed out some rivets with only a little bit of massaging needed

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afterwards to get it perfect then the standoffs were screwed back on

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the bottom making a nice little compartment the chop chopping wasn't

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over yet though we needed to make space for the power supply cables to enter the

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case and for the pci express extender to

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leave so we marked the cuts out and got the grinder going once again now we just

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needed some mounting for the GPU a gtx

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1080 of course we decided the easiest way to mount it was using this adapter

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stolen from the compact sli rig project

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orthrus which conveniently bolted right onto the existing cuts in the case so no

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other modifications had to be made reassembly could have been easier

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everything had to go back in exactly the right order or we'd have to perform the

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disassembly of shame first we attached our little power

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supply to the underside of the case using our preferred mounting method

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double-sided tape the 24-pin connector on it was particularly ugly so we

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covered that up using cablemod aio sleeving not a perfect solution but it

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does look a lot better next we attached the SSD to the mount on the bottom the

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drive mounting that came with this case is actually pretty bad and doesn't allow

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for right angle SATA connectors but we were able to make it work even if we

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could only put in two screws because it had to sit at kind of a weird angle

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the GPU got slotted in and we were ready

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to put the top on so with the CPU fan

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getting plugged in first and then screwing down the cooler we

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just needed to add some finishing touches and a lazy cable management job

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and she was finally ready for action overall we're actually

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pretty pleased with the cheapest case on the market i mean it would obviously be

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misleading to call our end result here representative of its 13 dollar price

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tag because by the time we had actually built our system we had used an

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expensive ac to dc wall adapter an

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expensive 300 watt dc to dc power supply

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an expensive shielded pci express extension expensive modding tools and a

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custom bracket that we didn't fabricate but cooling performance is obviously

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