15 Liter Mini PC Build UP

 15 Liter Mini PC Build UP

Cost is probably 2000 dollars and NUC with upgrades costs is 200 dollars.

Mini PCs

1. Minix NPs-5 Pro

Intel Irish GPU

2. GEEKOM Mini IT11

3. HP Z2 Mini G9

4. BEELink SER5

5. Minisforum Venus UM700

6. Minisforum Venus NPB6

7. Geekom IT13

8. Beelink S12 Pro 

9. Nipogi AK1 Plus

10. GMKtec Mini PC N100

11. ACEMagician mini PC

12. GMKtec Mini PC N97

13. 

MSI

1. ATX

ITX is the mini version

MCASE M2

Total Volume 15 Liters as compared to a one mini PC of NUC.

This is by the way, is a gaming PC.

There was no estimate of the cost of the system.

My guess is one can build a NAS Server system with couple of NUC boxes for the same price.

I do not play games and not even watch films. If I need to watch a film I need to stick a USB media player and stick a speaker to the USB.

Advanced Technology Extended by Intel.

Specification or mounting points and connectivity for motherboards and power supply for a standard computer.

I have two instances of Debian Gnome, Netrunner and MX Linux KDE a total of 4 distributions in a 320 Old SATA.

No noise and no heat.

Save space, money and energy in watts.

Only 20 watts maxim and no fans.

I use AbiWord (not even Libre office) for books.

2. Motherboard 

B650 Edge WIFI (Gaming)

BIOS Flashback 

CMOS Clear

4 Debug LEDs 

Iindicates if problem with DDR is detected.

Host of ports and vary according to the type of ITX.

Front panel has up down direction.

Back panel has lot of ports and the power button.

Side panels have lot of holes for ventilation.

3. CPU

AMD Ryzen-7 9800-X3D

8 pin cables 

4. GPU

16 pin cables 

GeForce RTX

Mounting Screws for the Cooling System.

Peerless Assassin 120

Has flexible mounting options.

GPU power button should be set on, since accessing it after mounting if difficult.

If need be enough room is a single for liquid cooling (not water).

Add few more mounts to fast chain several more fans to fill the avaible space.

The theory is more fans better it is BUT one should work out how air should flow out from inside to outside.

One does not need heater on a cold winter night. My dog who used to sleep on the cement flow would sleep under the PC which was by the side of my bed. My feet would warm up it's belly.

5. RAM 

DDR 5 6000 series (with higher end serirs there may be compatibility problem with CPU and GPU).

Probably has two slots.

6. Hard Disk

Non Volatile Memory Express

Single NVMe

Samsung 990 Evo

Two slots to mount one on the front (inside) and one on the back (shorter)

2 terabyte 

One for operating system and one for data is the better option.

One need to put protected film before installing.

7. Power Supply

Corsair 

SF850

Motherboard power cable has 24 pins

GPU cable has 16 pins

CPU has 8 pins

Flexible mounting options for power supply.

Tidy them with zip- ties.

Cabling is the clumsiest part.

In my old PC cables had 4, 8 and 12 pins.

Cooling system sat on top of the CPU on thermal paste. I never fiddle with the CPU mounting and that was the most expensive and critical piece.

Graphic cards were only upto 1GB and did not need cooling.

Hard diskes and CD/DVD Roms need power supply. With spinning HDD one had to set master and slave meeting with metal clips. I used to make mistakes and on booting only one hard disk may be detected. With SATA there was no such need. 

Just fix in the data and power cables.