Building A Liquid-Cooled MicroATX Gaming Monster

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You don't need a massive case to cram in tons of computing muscle. With a little help from a few manufacturers, our excessively-overclocked GeForce GTX 580 SLI build is small enough to sit atop most desks (and smoke our $2000 SBM machine).

Benchmark Results: Productivity

While 3ds Max shows a slight preference for the microATX build overall, Adobe Photoshop simply reflects the differences in CPU frequency.

What we said about 3ds Max also applies to WinRAR and WinZip. We were surprised to see the lack of performance differentiation between overclocked configurations in ABBY FineReader, however.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.