Need an Extremely Small and Portable Gaming System

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller ehhhh, if you go that way and add a card in make sure you order it with the beefier PSU

MattSpeller

Were it my money, and compact robustness you seek, go with prefab plastic fantastic case I would not.

/accidental yoda

scottalanmiller

Good point, metal will matter. Although I'm wary of metal after having a MacBook. Metal is heavy and weak.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller tell that to the magnesium chassis in the dell latitudes that my users have been unable to break!

@scottalanmiller said:

Good point, metal will matter. Although I'm wary of metal after having a MacBook. Metal is heavy and weak.

Macbook's are weaker than plastic laptops. It's too malleable.

MattSpeller

@thecreativeone91 said:

Macbook's are weaker than plastic laptops. It's too malleable.

I will freely admit that they are very pretty. I think aluminium is their downfall though.

MattSpeller

I think something like these will serve you well. Before packing it to ship I'd take out the GPU though - they're heavy and have no support other than the slot.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8334/thermaltake-goes-small-core-v1-miniitx-chassis-launched

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7710/corsair-obsidian-250d-case-review

For the 2nd one: "Dimensions 350 mm ×277 mm ×290 mm(D × W × H)"

Another, super small: http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=411

coliver

@MattSpeller said:

I think something like these will serve you well. Before packing it to ship I'd take out the GPU though - they're heavy and have no support other than the slot.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8334/thermaltake-goes-small-core-v1-miniitx-chassis-launched

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7710/corsair-obsidian-250d-case-review

For the 2nd one: "Dimensions 350 mm ×277 mm ×290 mm(D × W × H)"

Another, super small: http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=411

I did a build with one of those Thermaltake cases. Really nice build quality although probably a bit bigger then @scottalanmiller wants.

scottalanmiller

Asus has one. A friend on Facebook shared this one today:

http://www.asus.com/us/site/game-on-incredible/desktops/G20/

scottalanmiller

Only $649 according to this link: http://www.amazon.com/lm/R2APU7WZPDB191/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm_bb=

scottalanmiller

OH, that's a misleading post. It's over a grand. And the shape isn't ideal. Hard to pack around.

Ambarishrh

@scottalanmiller So did you manage to find anything that suits your req yet?

scottalanmiller

Not yet, but got sidetracked by the incredible disaster going on around here

Ambarishrh

What happened?

scottalanmiller

http://mangolassi.it/topic/5347/unresponsive-hp-proliant-dl385-g7

And a long chain of events around it.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

http://mangolassi.it/topic/5347/unresponsive-hp-proliant-dl385-g7

And a long chain of events around it.

haha I'm excited to know the update of that thread

scottalanmiller

Think that I found what I want. What do people think of the soon to release Zotac Magnus?

scottalanmiller

It is $799 and has an Intel Core i5 dual core proc, nVidia 970 GPU. I'll have to add memory and an SSD, no big deal there. Has quad HDMI output which is overkill but pretty flexible.

scottalanmiller

The big deal is that it is so small and compact. Perfect for carrying with us as we travel. Looks like it might be very similar to the upcoming SteamBox that Zotac is making too. But I would be loading up Windows 10 in this case (as much as I love the idea of the SteamOS console system.)

MattSpeller

GTX960, not 970 - looks really good for the money but I'd make sure that mofo has some space around it. I guarantee you it'll get nuclear meltdown hot if you don't.