Morpha's Mini-ITX machine

[cdawall]

Originally Posted by morpha

I didnt like it either... which is why I changed it to an antec model.

The Aywun Case:

• PSU sat over the cpu so stock intel half-height coolers wouldnt fit, you needed smaller.
• cheap and nasty USB ports on the front of the case.
• However by jamming a 120mm fan where I did the case had beautiful cooling.

I found that I never used the DVD burner and once I had enough money to buy a laptop hdd I decided that I didnt need the big case anymore. So I got the antec one (pictures to come)

i added the 120mm fan but the atom and 8400GS didn't benefit from it.

[morpha]

Originally Posted by cdawall

i added the 120mm fan but the atom and 8400GS didn't benefit from it.

I was using a s775 e5200,which runs cold normaly, but if I started playing games or folding it began to generate a bit of heat. Which the 120mm fan in tandem with the zerotherm cooler promptly got rid off.

The graphics card blocks the other vent preventing a wind tunnelt thing from happening. I didnt have a gfx card in my build.

[Geofrancis]

Itx computers are the shit my last 2 builds have been itx and providing you get the right motherboard you can make them into pretty powerfull little machines.

[morpha]

Size Comparison Photos




Months later and Im very pleased with this case. I ended up changing the fans to 8v instead of 5v and the additional noise was negligible over the psu fan. Heat is not a problem either... (but it wasnt in the previous case either)

What I didnt expect is that the only slightly smaller footprint would mean so much. The size is negligible on paper but its been able to fit in some great little out of the way places that the old case wouldn't have gotten into..

The paint job on the case is great there is no damage to the paint, faceplate or the usb ports whereas the other cheaper case has a broken USB port and a scratched and scuffed faceplate and paintjob...