Does anyone use one of those mini-form-factor PCs as your main desktop/gaming computer? Have you experienced any significant regrets or major downsides that made you wish you'd still be using a tower?
I'm assuming you mean SFF and not an actual mini PC, in which case there's a general for this, but w/e. I built one specifically because I need to travel occasionally with my main PC. Not particularly. On-board features have gotten good enough that rarely anyone needs multiple expansion slots, storage is a non-issue, the performance hit on 4x DIMMs outweighs the extra capacity these days, and only workstation CPUs require more than a 240mm radiator. You only need to compromise on performance once you go under 15L for air and 10L for liquid, because that's when cooler height and GPU length start to become problems. The two main catches are that you have to pay a huge premium on parts you can usually cheap out on like PSUs, motherboards, cases, and case fans; and that you need to check all the measurements for every part to plan carefully.
>>107677253If you're talking about small PC sorta like mac mini it's just like laptops without the laptop part. Kinda strange concept. If you're talking about SFF like mini-itx builds it's just normal PCs. There is only 2 RAM slots and 1 PCIe extension. Besides that it's just a normal PC.
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only regret is I couldn't buy a full size used GPU but I value having a small quiet SFF pc with basically no empty space
