{"id":521757,"date":"2026-06-27T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521757\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:07:09","slug":"cramming-a-mini-itx-gaming-pc-into-a-3d-printed-steam-machine-sized-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521757\/","title":{"rendered":"Cramming A Mini-ITX Gaming PC Into A 3D Printed Steam Machine Sized Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact apparently has irked some people who decided that it makes perfect sense to try and cram a Mini-ITX board, Small Form Factor (SFF) PSU and full-sized discrete GPU into an enclosure of the same size. Cue the SFF Mini-ITX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/1493449-sff-mini-itx-steam-machine-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steam Machine Case project<\/a> by [3DCatt] over at Printables.<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently a project <a href=\"https:\/\/videocardz.com\/newz\/valves-steam-machine-gets-an-rtx-5060-diy-rival-made-with-a-3d-printer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">done in cooperation<\/a> with AMD\u2019s [Jacob Terkelsen], who showed off the 3D printed case stuffed full with the aforementioned parts, which includes a GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. Of note is that the Valve Steam Machine uses a different cooling configuration as it has both the CPU and GPU on the same PCB. These share the same massive heatsink, as can be seen in e.g. the [Gamers Nexus] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=glXA3ObwSwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">teardown video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For this angular imitation machine it would have been nice to use a blower-style GPU, to exhaust the hot air rather than dump it all into the case. This is also an issue that was raised by [Jacob], with more ventilation added to mitigate the issue. What the overall performance will be compared to regular compact Mini-ITX cases remains to be seen, but if you really want to live the Steam Machine life and have some parts kicking around along with a 3D printer, it might be worth a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-521757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}