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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I see. An AMD APU was the best (almost only?) option, and I see you went with the best one. That someone will surely enjoy it, even if it's for non-demanding games.

And thanks for your feedback on the build, I'm always curious about how it is working on such cramped cases. The last two times I've changed my PC I've thought about going small factor, mATX rather than mini as I have several HDDs and need the extra SATA ports, but I always end with regular sized ones.

Yeah... It's the path I went. Smaller ITX PC... And then just went the external HDD route.
But now I am taking it a step farther and building a NAS.

The era of 6-8 internal drives, 2-4 GPU's, water cooling loop, triple monitors is long over for me. And I don't regret it either.

I wouldn't mind going thatg route as well, but it's not a good option for me, as least money wise.

I have an SSD as the main system drive and a 1TB HDD only for games, plus 3 mass storage drives from years ago and a blu-ray drive (yes, I still use those every now and then). That means that I'd need a 4-bay NAS, and those are crazy expensive. Add the fact that mATX mobos cost the same or more than regular ones and the end result is that it's cheaper to keep going ATX.