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I was tired of having a giant useless brick on my desk, i chose to transform it into a small useless brick instead.

The build is not complete yet. I am eagerly awaiting for the alluminum pannels, a small bare PCB fan hub and two noctua 92mm slim fans.
The pannels will replace the totally unusable glass pannels and the fans will be mounted on the GPU instead of the stock shroud. The GPU is the loudest part of the build by far even at the lowest fan speed on iddle.

The fan hub will be double side taped hidden behind the cable stream in the front GPU side.
The NH L 12 S is a bit damaged because i tried to mount it over the Gskill trident Z modules and under the height to be able to close the incoming pannels. No luck, so i removed the heat spreaders and tried to debend the fins. In the end it's not too bad and the RAM don't need passive cooling since the cooler's fan blow over it and the bottom fan blow between the modules.

Something strange happened to the memory. Before removing the heat spreader, DOCP was working fine. Now it reset the bios everytime i want to enables it. I manually overclocked the RAM to it's DOCP speed and it works fine. Maybe something changed in the bios and there's a conflict.

Other than that, the build is ultra quiet (fanst turn off when iddle )and the temps are fine (i hope the vented pannels won't change that too much). The GPU is undervolted at .95v and boost at 1900mhz and the CPU's max temp during normal use it 72c (stock). Hammering the CPU decrease the voltage, clock speed and temp #Zen2.

/!\ The case is the ophion non evo and the GPU is a 2070 super. These 2 items are not in the lists so i chose the closest parts.

EDIT 1 : I found out the CPU was not producing a lot of heat but the GPU was. So, i thought it was useless to monitor the case fans depending on the CPU temps. So i decided to keep the powered fan hub, hide it and plug it to the GPU. So, when the GPU temps spike, the fans regulate the case air. When i get the 2 92mm noctua fans to strap on the GPU, i will plug them to the hub and call it a day.

EDIT 2 : I tried to plug a case fan on the GPU, it was much better. Then, i tried to plug everything on the hub who was plugged onto the GPU. At that point all the fans were spinning at 100% without any hope to control them. I saw on GPUz the tachometer was reporting 0 RPM. So, i scratched my head and thought maybe there is a protection in the GPU's bios who force everything at 100% in case of 0 RPM. I was right, one of the 2 stock fans is not fully wired. So, i tried to connect a fan with the tachometer and the hub without it thanks to a noctua Y cable. And now everything is controlled by the GPU ! I will have to live with an opened frankenstein's beast untill i get the proper fans for the GPU.
Also, i forgot to mention this particular GPU canot lower the fan speed below 33%, i had to replace its bios for an EVGA one who have a zero RPM fan mode.

EDIT 3 : Build is done, 100% noctua fans, good temps with low noise. This is a stealth bomber.

https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V10/display.php?id=123525726667
Color(s): Black Brown Gray
RGB Lighting? Yes
Theme: none
Cooling: Air Cooling
Size: Mini-ITX
Type: General Build

Hardware

CPU
$ 210.00
AMD - Ryzen 7 (3700X)
Socket: AM4
Cores: 8
Motherboard
$ 192.12
Gigabyte - AORUS I Pro (WiFi)
Chipset: X570
CPU Socket: AM4
Size: Mini-ITX
Memory
$ 482.90
Crucial - Ballistix Elite (3600MHz) (Black) (2x)
Type: DDR4
Capacity: 16 GB
Graphics
$ 500.00
ZOTAC - Gaming OC Mini
Chip Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip: RTX 2070
Storage
$ 117.39
Corsair - Force MP300
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 240 GB
Storage
$ 139.90
Crucial - MX500
Form Factor: M.2
Interface: M.2 (M)
Capacity: 1 TB
Storage
$ 40.99
Samsung - 860 EVO
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 500 GB
Storage
$ 48.99
SanDisk - Ultra II
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 240 GB
PSU
$ 155.05
Corsair - SF600
Wattage: 600
Form Factor: SFX
Efficiency: 80+ Gold
Case
$ 120.00
Raijintek - Ophion Evo
Type: Mini-Tower
Side Panel: Tempered Glass
Case Fan
$ 29.95
Noctua - NF-A12x15 PWM (Brown)
Size: 120 mm
Case Fan
$ 59.90
Noctua - NF-A12x25 5V PWM (2x)
Size: 120 mm
Cooling
$ 45.42
Scythe - Big Shuriken 3
Type: Air Cooler
Estimated total value of this build:
$ 2,250.08
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