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What is a Small Form Factor PC?
Small Form Factor PCs are traditionally defined as personal computers under a total displacement of 20 liters, however, they may be defined as any system able to fit a large amount of computing power within a small space.
Why use a Small Form Factor PC?
While conventional personal computers may be envisioned as large desktop towers, sffpcs aim towards space efficiency, and are optimized for use cases where tower computers fail. Use cases may include:
High level applications which require transportable computing power
Applications where users may travel often
Low space environments
Aesthetics
Why not use a laptop?
Small form factor computers fulfill a niche market, where more performance is needed than that of a laptop, or space, price, or mobility are constrained. Additionally, building custom computers can be fun and exciting!
sff.pc
Sffpcs differ from the systems taught last semester in a couple different ways. Aside from the aforementioned traits regarding space and mobility, they run different in price and components. Click the buttons below to learn more.
Components
Sffpcs are organized in a similar way towards last semester's systems, retaining the same components, such as the cpu, motherboard, random access memory, and storage, but at a signifigantly different scale, and with their own conditions and compatibility.
Cooling
In last semester's pc build, your cpu cooler was probably treated as an afterthought, however, in a sffpc, its signifigantly more important to pay attention to the way heat is managed in order to effectively cool the components of the system.
Cases
Naturally, the physical design of the computer case must be changed in order to address the great change in scale. Traditional cases are bashfully wasteful in their space management, to decrease the size, we must thoughtfully plan out our layout and component structures.
