Info: During quarantine, I got back into playing video games. Since I was using my PC so much I wanted to upgrade (but to make of project of it of course). The plan was to build something extremely compact making it easy to take to college with me. It is completely water-cooled and at the time was the smallest PC to house a full desktop GA102 RTX 3080. 

Specs: 

• 6.46L Volume (Shoebox size!)

• RTX 3080 EVGA XC3

• i7-10700K @ 5.1ghz All Core OC /4.9ghz Ring

• 32GB 16-16-16-32 4266mhz @ 1.5v DDR4 Samsung B-die based dual rank RAM sticks

• Gigabyte Z490i ITX motherboard

• 850w Plat. 1U PSU from FSP Group

• 240mm Radiator Hardwarelabs Black Ice

• Noctua 120x15 Slim fans  

• Alphacool Solo LT

• EK Quantum Vector RTX 3080 Water block 

What I learned: I gained a much deeper understanding of how computers work as well as the difficulties of thermal management in small form factor computing. I had to dissipate a little over 600 watts of heat within a very small area which in itself took some testing to even see if it was doable.