Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing

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Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster up the initiative to get my system fully upgraded! 🥱

I’ve been slogging away at this for quite some time now. My PC build blog entry series spans 13 glorious years:

The future of PCs may not necessarily be more speed (though there is some of that, if you read on), but in smaller builds. For this iteration, my go-to cases are the Dan A4 SFX

And the Streacom DA2

The attraction here is maximum power in minimum size. Note that each of these cases are just large enough to fit …

a standard mini-ITX systemSFX power supplyfull sized GPUreasonable CPU cooler

… though the DA2 offers substantially

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