August 13, 2025
Description
After a bit of a rough troubleshooting saga resulting in me rebuilding my main computer, I ended up with a spare ITX motherboard and fell into the SFF formfactor build space.
Here's a ~6L mini-ITX PC case that can either be laser cut from your choice of material (image is 1/4" / 6.35mm cedar shiplap) or 3d printed in individual panels and glued together.
6mm plywood would be the best for strength, the cedar shiplap tends to break easily but it certainly looks and smells nice.
Specced for a dual-slot low-profile gpu such as an intel arc pro B50, A350, RTX 3050, 4060, 5060, A2000 or A4000SFF and a 1U/Flex ATX power supply (unit used in mine is a 600W platinum silverstone PSU). CPU cooling clearance allows for a Thermalright AXP90-X53 low profile cpu cooler (or smaller). if your cable management is good you will have space for up to 3x TL9015 slim 92mm cooling fans to act as exhaust. I went with a magnetic closure for the side panel but you can modify it to your hearts desire to use bolts, screws, latches, etc.
The sides are symmetric and the vector files can be edited in free software like inkscape, or in cutter software like lightburn. If you want to change the orientation or adjust sizes just proportionally adjust the sizes of each piece.
Feel free to upload your modifications as makes and go nuts with derivatives!
I am currently working on a sci-fi rendition of this that is fully 3d printed if that's more your speed, stay tuned for that model whenever I get time to make it.
License:
Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike