so what do you get when you buy a case that is only 13
plus a few bucks for shipping well
if i'm being honest not enough for us but here at LTT we are
all about cramming as much power as possible into anything that comes
through the door so of course this baby needed some major
modifications
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so the experience of buying this case then you really do get what you pay for
sometimes when it arrived i told alex gee man i really wish we'd ordered the
black version and he responds well you actually don't get to pick a color it's
just luck of the draw brilliant first impressions though it's
considerably smaller than we thought in
the description it does say mini itx
case and it does say pos
but it doesn't say anything about being so small
that it doesn't even have a mount for a power supply to its credit the
does this thing even have a model number no all right then the construction of
the small exclusive custom is pretty solid compared to some of the other
cheap cases that we've had around here so the first aid kit stayed where it
belongs above the fridge missing screws and lack of instructions
aside for 13.50 cents it's hard to complain about much besides the size we
went about seeing then what all we could fit in this thing
fortunately we had a pico power supply on hand so we built a system in it with
that but frankly it kind of sucked at only about 60 watts
and with a four pin connector that we janked together there was just no way
that this thing was going to end up Linus tech tips grade
which isn't to say that we didn't try but our core i7 7700k had to be
underclocked to 3 gigahertz from 4.5 and
have half of its cores disabled and even then it was so questionably stable that
it didn't even post downstairs where the lighting and construction going on right
now mean that the wall power isn't as clean no
if we're gonna build a worthy system in here we're gonna need a little bit of
inspiration from roadkill plus the angle grinder man is knocking at the door and
it seems rude not to let him in
so we went down to the workshop and planned out where the cuts would need to
be in the top of the case using calipers and rulers to aid our measurements given
we only have one of these cases it wasn't a measure once cut thrice kind of
situation after marking out the cuts we got out the aluminum cutting disk and
went to work
and wow it seems to fit so we actually wanted to
reuse the drive mounting that came with the case but invert it so that we could
use it to hold our hd plex 300 watt dc
to dc power supply that we stole from the s4 mini so we wanted that underneath
the case so we got out the center punch and
slammed out some rivets with only a little bit of massaging needed
afterwards to get it perfect then the standoffs were screwed back on
the bottom making a nice little compartment the chop chopping wasn't
over yet though we needed to make space for the power supply cables to enter the
case and for the pci express extender to
leave so we marked the cuts out and got the grinder going once again now we just
needed some mounting for the GPU a gtx
1080 of course we decided the easiest way to mount it was using this adapter
stolen from the compact sli rig project
orthrus which conveniently bolted right onto the existing cuts in the case so no
other modifications had to be made reassembly could have been easier
everything had to go back in exactly the right order or we'd have to perform the
disassembly of shame first we attached our little power
supply to the underside of the case using our preferred mounting method
double-sided tape the 24-pin connector on it was particularly ugly so we
covered that up using cablemod aio sleeving not a perfect solution but it
does look a lot better next we attached the SSD to the mount on the bottom the
drive mounting that came with this case is actually pretty bad and doesn't allow
for right angle SATA connectors but we were able to make it work even if we
could only put in two screws because it had to sit at kind of a weird angle
the GPU got slotted in and we were ready
to put the top on so with the CPU fan
getting plugged in first and then screwing down the cooler we
just needed to add some finishing touches and a lazy cable management job
and she was finally ready for action overall we're actually
pretty pleased with the cheapest case on the market i mean it would obviously be
misleading to call our end result here representative of its 13 dollar price
tag because by the time we had actually built our system we had used an
expensive ac to dc wall adapter an
expensive 300 watt dc to dc power supply
an expensive shielded pci express extension expensive modding tools and a
custom bracket that we didn't fabricate but cooling performance is obviously
great since it's pretty much all open air and we think it looks flippin
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