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comexyesterday at 7:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Personally I'd love to have a smaller PC for gaming, but I've been scared off by Mini-ITX supposedly being harder to work with and tending to have worse cooling and therefore worse noise. I wish PCs were less fiddly to put together.


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toast0yesterday at 9:05 PM

Mini-ITX is harder to work with and usually does have worse cooling.

There's just less space, so it's harder to get things in and out. And you have a smaller cooler because there's less space, at least for air cooling.

I haven't used itx with video cards, but that's hugely constrained...