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so what do you get when you buy a case that is only 13 dollars plus a few bucks for shipping well if I'm being honest not enough for us but here at LTT we are all about cramming as much power as possible into anything that comes through the door so of course this baby needed some major modifications the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you guessed it compact check it out through Amazon or Newegg at the links below so the experience of buying this case then you really do get what you pay for sometimes when it arrived I told Alex gee man I really wish we'd ordered the black version and he responds well you actually don't get to pick a color it's just luck of the draw brilliant first impressions though it's considerably smaller than we thought in the description it does say mini ITX case and it does say POS but it doesn't say anything about being so small that it doesn't even have a mount for a power supply to its credit B doesn't even have a model number no all right then the construction of the small exclusive custom is pretty solid compared to some of the other cheap cases that we've had around here so the first aid kit stayed where it belongs above the fridge missing screws and lack of instructions aside for $13.50 it's hard to complain about much besides the size we went about seeing then what all we could fit in this thing fortunately we had a Pico power supply on hand so we built a system in it with that but frankly it kind of sucked at only about 60 watts and with a four pin connector that we janked together there was just no way that this thing was going to end up Linus tech tips grade which isn't to say that we didn't try but our core i7 7700 K had to be under clocked to three gigahertz from 4.5 and have half of its cores disabled and even then it was so questionably stable that it didn't even post downstairs where the lighting and construction going on right now mean that the wall power isn't as clean no if we're going to build a worthy system in here we're going to need a little bit of inspiration from roadkill plus the angle grinder man is knocking at the door and it seems rude not to let him in so we went down to the workshop in planned oh where the cuts need to be in the top of the case using calipers and rulers to aid our measurements given we only have one of these cases it wasn't they measure once cut for rice kind of situation after marking out the cuts we bought out the aluminum cutting disk and went to work and wow it seems to fit so we actually wanted to reuse the drive mounting that came with the case but inverted so that we could use it to hold our HD flex 300 watt DC to DC power supply that we stole from the s4 mini so we wanted that underneath the case so we got us a center punch and slammed out the rivets with only a little bit of massaging needed afterwards to get it perfect then the standoffs were screwed back on the bottom making a nice little compartment the chopped chopping wasn't over yet though we needed to make space for the power supply cables to enter the case and for the PCI Express extender to leave so we marked the cuts out and got the grinder going once again now we just needed some mounting for the GPU a gtx 1080 of course we decided the easiest way to mount it was using this adapter stolen from the compact sli rig project or therethe which conveniently bolted right onto the existing cuts in the case so no other modifications had to be made reassembly could have been easier everything had to go back in exactly the right order or we'd have to perform the disassembly of Shame first we attached our little power supply to the underside of the case using our preferred mounting method double-sided tape the 24 pin connector on it was particularly ugly so we covered that up using cable mod a IO sleeving not a perfect solution but it does look a lot better next we attached the SSD to the mount on the bottom the drive mounting that came with this case is actually pretty bad and doesn't allow for right angle SATA connectors but we were able to make it work even if we could only put in two screws because it had to sit kind of a angle the GPU got slotted in and we were ready to put the top on so with the CPU fan getting plugged in first and then screwing down the cooler we just needed to add some finishing touches and a lazy cable management job and she was finally ready for action overall we're actually pretty pleased with the cheapest case on the market I mean it would obviously be misleading to call our end result here representative of its $13 price tag because by the time we had actually built our system we had used an expensive AC to DC wall adapter and expensive 300 watt DC to DC power supply an expensive shielded PCI Express extension expensive modding tools and a custom bracket that we didn't fabricate but cooling performance is obviously great since it's pretty much all open air and we think it looks flippin awesome this is one 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