$1150 Tiny Backpackable Gaming PC

Overview

It's a 600 watt modular Flex ATX power supply, and the cool thing about this one is that you also get a 12 volt high power cable as well, w… Now back on the other side, installing the power supply only takes a second, you just couple of screws through the back, and then we can pl…

Key Takeaways

• It's a 600 watt modular Flex ATX power supply, and the cool thing about this one is that you also get a 12 volt high power cable as well, w…
• Now back on the other side, installing the power supply only takes a second, you just couple of screws through the back, and then we can pl…
• Now installation from here is very straightforward, just lower the GPU into the case, slide the card into the PCI Express slot, on the Razo…
• In a tiny case, like this NV10 with a 38mm cooler, those PBO limits and the negative curve optimizer are exactly how I'm going to keep the…
• Motherboard on one side, GPU and the power supply on the other, and is designed for low profile cards.
• Now despite that lower price, it doesn't feel like a cheap case, like not at all.
• Also, something else I've been working on that I'm very excited about is an HW info log charting tool, and that's going to be exclusive for…
• Once we apply and spread some thermal paste, the cooler can be lowered over the CPU, and the standoffs those feed right through to the back…

And when you do, that usually means that it comes with a very old-resour cable or no-resour cable at all, and you have to purchase it separately. Now despite that lower price, it doesn't feel like a cheap case, like not at all. I'll be taking all that, and I'm going to plug it into this motherboard from Azrock. So anyways, that's all I got.

So now that the board is all set up, we can actually start moving everything into the case. I'm actually going to plug in as many of the cables as I can now to make it easier for me later. This part actually wasn't too difficult, but you just need to make sure that the Wi-Fi antenna connectors on the back don't snag on the back of the case.

This is the low profile RTX5060 from Gigabyte, and it's one of a few dedicated GPUs that will actually fit into a sub-5-liter build like this.

John's Bo has had some good quality cases in the past, but then I saw the price. I usually default to the Noctua NHL9i for cases like this, but that one's like three times the price, so I figured this one is definitely worth checking out. Cable management was also very easy to manage, but it also helped that I went with a modular power supply here.

Cable Management & Power Delivery

You'll see at multiple lengths of the motherboard cable in the CPU cable, so I thought that was a nice touch. From there, we can plug in the PCI Express riser cable and then secure that on the other side. So to make things easier, I'm going to plug that power cable in while the card is still outside the case.