Hydra Mini - nothing special, nothing new, but i like it and tought somebody else might too.

Sorry for reposting, but had trouble with the pictures showing correctly (1st post).

Impulse buy a few years ago, because I saw a picture of it here somewhere.

Bought a Noctua L9a to go with it, but never came around to build in it, because i just could put new CPUs in my x370 ATX mainboard.

But recently i saw a good deal on a used B550i ITX board so i said: F... it - now or never.

Sold my Asus Crosshair VI X370 for the same price the Gigabyte B550i cost me.

This is my first open air chassis and i will not go back in an enclosure.

Noise and Temps are great.

Dust is not a problem for me. I vacuum the room and desk regularly and i keep a brush near by

for wiping the components and case clean.

Had to mod the GPU bracket and put a wedge in because the card was crocked.

Also only one of 2 possible PSU screws fits, cause the alignment is not good.

But it works, and with the riser ist was around 100€ (3 or 4 years ago).

Specs:

Case: Hydra Mini White with stock 3.0 Riser

Mainboard: Gigabyte B550i Aorus Pro AX

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600x

Cooler: Noctua L9a with Deepcool FT9 Slim fan

Ram: 2x8 GB Gskill TridentZ 3200 CL14

SSD: 2TB Kingston Fury m.2 and some 1TB Intel m.2 on the back

GPU: RTX 3080FE

PSU: Corsair SF750 (the old one)

Cables: Stock Corsair sleeved, Cablemod 200mm 12VHPWR "SFF Sleeving" and black power button from Amazon with cheap extensions solderd on.

This is my final AM4 Build.

What a great platform it was.

Went from an 1700 (4ghz OC) -> 3700x -> 5600x and

from an RX480 -> GTX 1070 -> Vega 64 -> 5700XT -> RTX 3080

all on the same mainboard and ram.

With an 5700X3D i could go with another GPU, but i will go AM5 this year.

The Nitro+ 9070XT looks so amazing...

Just waiting for 65W 9600X3D or something similar.