The traditional image of a gaming PC is some hulking monster of a machine, dominating your desktop like some great colossus. But there is something innately satisfying about squeezing the same amount of gaming power into a pint-sized system. And I can’t help but adore those mini-ITX motherboards; the thought of all that PC power held on an upturned palm. Glorious stuff for nerds like me.
Once upon a time, small form factor builds meant making sometimes severe compromises on the parts you used, but the latest micro machines can house the sort of components that would make a workstation blush. These systems can house full size, triple-slot graphics cards, and some come with the power supplies and cooling to make the most of those and the high-performance processors you might want to strap to them.
H1 v2
NZXT $400
A stellar chassis upgrade forged in fire
1 I was a big fan of the original NZXT H1 mini-ITX chassis when it first came out. But then, mine never caught fire. Which is a good thing because I’ve
