The CHEAPEST PC Case on the Market
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,185 words · ~5 min read
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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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great since it's pretty much all open air and we think it looks flippin
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touch matte finish adjustable sliders spring steel and hand-stitched protein
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