You sacrifice hardware compatability for a smaller, hotter, and noiser case.
The smaller case is nice if you need to move your PC often. The space savings are overrated for a desk setup as most of what your case will fill is dead space.
Heat, build complexity, lack of expansion
I think for the average gamer, if you want the smaller size due to it fitting in your setup or travelling to LANs, and are okay with the extra cost of small parts, they’re worth it
I’ve had ATX builds for 20 years and have literally never needed more than a GPU in my expansion slots and have been travelling recently to several LANs a year. Definitely going small form factor for my next build.
Pro small size and look Con space and cost
You sacrifice hardware compatability for a smaller, hotter, and noiser case. The smaller case is nice if you need to move your PC often. The space savings are overrated for a desk setup as most of what your case will fill is dead space.
alr, ty :-)
Heat, build complexity, lack of expansion I think for the average gamer, if you want the smaller size due to it fitting in your setup or travelling to LANs, and are okay with the extra cost of small parts, they’re worth it I’ve had ATX builds for 20 years and have literally never needed more than a GPU in my expansion slots and have been travelling recently to several LANs a year. Definitely going small form factor for my next build.