Cramming A Mini-ITX Gaming PC Into A 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case

The lately launched Valve Steam Machine is considerably awkward in that it makes use of a customized, non-standard PCB and non-standard energy provide. This reality apparently has irked some individuals who determined that it makes excellent sense to try to cram a Mini-ITX board, Small Form Factor (SFF) PSU and full-sized discrete GPU into an enclosure of the identical dimension. Cue the SFF Mini-ITX Steam Machine Case project by [3DCatt] over at Printables.

This is seemingly a venture done in cooperation with AMD’s [Jacob Terkelsen], who confirmed off the 3D printed case stuffed full with the aforementioned elements, which features a GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. Of be aware is that the Valve Steam Machine makes use of a unique cooling configuration because it has each the CPU and GPU on the identical PCB. These share the identical large heatsink, as could be seen in e.g. the [Gamers Nexus] teardown video.

For this angular imitation machine it could have been good to make use of a blower-style GPU, to exhaust the recent air slightly than dump all of it into the case. This can be a problem that was raised by [Jacob], with extra air flow added to mitigate the difficulty. What the general efficiency can be in comparison with common compact Mini-ITX circumstances stays to be seen, however should you actually wish to reside the Steam Machine life and have some elements kicking round together with a 3D printer, it is perhaps price a shot.