By 4K, do you mean 3840x2160 or 4096x2160 ? Unless you have a very big monitor (I mean above 32 inches) 4K gaming is a ridiculous idea. The more pixels you have the more power you will demand on your GPU and the more $ it will cost you. How much were you planning to spend on GPU+Monitor combo ...
Sorry if i am late to the thread (was on vacation) but I guess the main problem for your wife is noise and not size. Normally having a bigger case would allow you to pick bigger fans that would be quieter (a bigger fan does not need to speed as fast to displace same amount of air). Turning to a...
Nice build and very insightful as to the trade-offs the Prodigy-M. I was considering that case when I started building mine but it was only a annonced upcoming product but not available. In the end, I settled for the FT03, where the motherboard is vertical but the slots are lined vertically too...
Have a look at the Silverstone SFF chassis, a nice thing about SilverStone is that they also produce SFF PSU and ATX PSU for which they offer a short cable set; very very useful in controlling clutter in a small package.
Negative .. it is smaller the the UMX 4.
The motherboard is Extended-ATX and UMX 4 is a regular ATX form factor.
E-ATX motherboard are used mostly by extreme gamers because the spacing between the PCI slots enables them to use multiple GPU cards.
Houston we have a big problem here ... the motherboard does not fit in the case ....
From the case styling you are looking for, here is a suggestion
Here is the cooler I would recommend if you were to use that case
USB-C is not Thunderbolt .. it is a connector type.
While Thunderbolt enables...
You told us what you were not gonna do with it (gaming) .. but you gave us no hint to what you are actually build it for ...
CPU Cooler .. that will simply not do .. a 92mm fan on a Core i7 ..nope. It would have to spin at max speed all the time..not very very silent ..gimme a few minutes to...
No one really 'needs' water cooling. Water cooling as become very fashionable of late and of course manufacturers wants you to believe that you 'need' it. A good air cooler is as efficient as a all-in-one water cooling solution and is quieter. Why because is the end water cooling is air...
The Prodigy is availabe in 2 formats
1) miniITX into which you can build CustoMac Mini or MiniDeluxe or any variant of it but it has to be a miniITX motherboard
2) mATX called Prodigy-M into which you can make a CustoMac mATX (mATX motherboard)
The CustoMac Pro motherboard simply does not...
If you leave your fans under PWM control, there is really no need for the LNA. Just adjust the PWM curve to your needs.
I have 3 Noctua in my build and at idle the only fan I hear is the one built into the power supply
$$$.. the only meaningful difference is that a Z170 enables you to overclock if you have a CPU that can be overclocked ... i3 can't so ...that money will be better spent elsewhere
CORRECTION BLUETOOTH ON THE MOTHERBOARD WILL WORK, WIFI WILL NOT.
You could also consider Silverstone own SFX PSU...
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