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miahallen
09-24-2010, 07:51 PM
Last month I brought you part one in this series entitled “Gaming in Tight Spaces – mini-ITX (featuring Gigabyte, Silverstone, and Prolimatech)”. In that article, I talked a bit about the history of mini-ITX and my fascination with it. If you didn’t get a chance to look it over yet, feel free to check it out as I’ll be referencing it a lot in this article.

My goal with the original was to simply build a gaming PC in which I would be using on a regular basis. I did not intend to write an article about the build. But after receiving support from Gigabyte and Prolimatech, the build spawned the article and an in depth look at what sort of performance I could extract from a tiny system on a relatively small budget.

Well….I got the bug, as many might say, and my curiosity drove me to push the system to the next level. I decided to name this new revision “MAX11L”, which represents the maximum amount of performance I could stuff into 11 liters of volume.

http://www.techreaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/MAX11L-66.jpg


Continue reading here! (http://www.techreaction.net/2010/09/24/gaming-in-tight-spaces-part-2%e2%80%93-max11l-featuring-corsair-and-gigabyte/)

miahallen
10-02-2010, 07:19 AM
Finished sleeving the PSU yesterday...pretty happy with the results :cool:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/max11L81.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/max11L82.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/max11L88.jpg

Full build log here:
http://www.techreaction.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3804

nigel
10-05-2010, 04:04 PM
i like it :)
its sow small and yet there is alot of power in there ^^

miahallen
10-08-2010, 04:55 PM
Here are the final pictures :cool:

"It's like a console...with the suck turned down and the awesome turned up" -tet5uo

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L120.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L121.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L123.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L124.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L125.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L126.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L127.jpg

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t228/miahallen/MAX11L/MAX11L129.jpg

TiN
10-09-2010, 02:16 AM
Awesomo and expensive :)

miahallen
10-09-2010, 02:59 AM
Well, yes, but not near as expensive as the big "dream" builds. I know we'd probably all love to build a quad SLI SR-2 rig, but I could only afford to go high end in a smaller package :D

Canis-X
10-11-2010, 01:33 PM
What matters is how you feel about it. To me, you did an outstanding job custom fitting all of the hardware into that small of a space, aside from how much it cost, that is one hell of a feat IMHO. Hats off to ya....great job!!!

miahallen
10-26-2010, 11:33 AM
A lot of people commented they wished Silverstone would make a version like this. Well, they have!

Check it out!

http://www.silverstonetek.com/images/products/sg05-450/SG05-Inside.jpg

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=SG05-450&area=usa