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Making everything fit in a gaming PC ain’t easy these days (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I currently have the Ncase M2, since I prefer air cooling. I don't have a pic of the PC in the M2, but here it is in the Cooler Master NR200:

my PC in an open NR200 case, visible brown fans

(Well, except that I did have to give up on having a 3.5" hard drive, but aside from that.)

I had a storage server (NAS) even before I went the SFF route, so there was little to sacrifice. Too bad the server wouldn't fit in a nice SFF case.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I had a storage server (NAS) even before I went the SFF route, so there was little to sacrifice. Too bad the server wouldn’t fit in a nice SFF case.

    I haven't gotten around to putting it together yet, but that's what my ISK-600 is going to become. Believe it or not, that thing can hold 3 3.5" drives and two 2.5" drives (or a slim optical drive, but nobody uses those anymore).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Nice, hope you'll have fun building and deploying your server.

    Cases like NR200 would also fit a few 3.5" drives, but the reason I couldn't fit my current server into a SFF-ish case is that the mobo is mATX and I have all PCIe slots full. Most of the SFF cases (even if they fit mATX) not enough space for my PCIe needs.

    I could upgrade to a built-in NVMe and SFP+ (or downgrade to 2.5GbE), but I don't want to spend that kind of money just to save some space I don't really need to save.

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