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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Well the revised version I just did steps it back down to DDR4, which saves me about $100 in Mobo and way, way more than that in terms of the ram cost (also backed it down to 16gb which seems... fine.) I can upgrade that later and I'd be out $250 bucks less whatever I can recoup, I guess.
Yeah, but that one's ATX and the issue there is that if I put an ATX PSU into that case I lose the ability to do a 240 or 280 AIO at the top, which to me seems absolutely necessary if I'm going to have a 3080 in there.
The case accepts a 120mm fan right under the PSU which I will no doubt do (in fact I've just added that to my cart), and there's at least some venting with the half-mesh design of the thing but it's just so small that I think I need to stick with an SFX power supply to give myself the extra headroom for cooling.
I've never done this as I feel like building the thing yourself is part of the whole experience, but my understanding is that with Memex you can just get them to build your PC for you by adding on a $75 fee ($100 with the OS install) which seems pretty reasonable.
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All fair points; I've only built one mITX in my life so I'll defer.
Yeah the "pre-builts" are overpriced, but the build service isn't too bad. Of course, you then get to miss out on Adult Lego-ing but I understand why that's not everyone's cup of tea.