I presumed after my first PC build that it would be plain sailing from then on. I couldn’t have been more wrong. But that’s all part of the fun, right? I challenged myself to put together a Mini-ITX build, as small form factors have always appealed to me. They’re just the natural trajectory of technology; well, phones have grown bigger again, but that’s not the point…. Anyway, the idea of building a Mini-ITX machine soon had its issues. Besides the fact that everything is much more cramped, some of the parts arrived late (for various reasons beyond anyone’s control), and this put a strain on our deadline.