I was mildly disappointed with Vavles pricing, so I told my nephew i’d make him a Bazzite system. He plays simple games.
Specs: Ryzen 4650G 450W PSU B550 Asrock ITX board 16GB DDR4 @3600MT/s 1TB PCI-e 3.0 Nvme Coolermaster 240 AIO (somehow crammed in) Silverstone SG-13 case
Interesting, I would have thought the cooling shroud makes more of a difference.
How did you mount them on the heatsink? Might do this to some older GPUs to make them fit in smaller cases.
That’s why you see the drill in one pic, had to drill & tap a couple extra holes. Thankfully two of the original ones lined up already.