Introduction

NVIDIA introduced their SFF focused initiative earlier this year to provide a way to assure those wanting to build compact gaming systems of compatibility with the latest and greatest NVIDIA graphics cards. With the surge in popularity around extremely compact SFF enclosures based on ITX motherboards, coupled with the fact that most graphics card brands offer a wide range of cards in all shapes and sizes, there is a lot of opportunity to hit a genuine roadblock when assembling your system.



Finding out that your case is too small for your high-performance GPU is a real bummer. This is also why even we have two different GPUs we use in our case reviews, with a compact true 2-slot alternative for those cases that can't otherwise fit a massive 3+ slot GeForce RTX 4080.



To dive into this topic there is no better way than to build a system that checks off all the boxes for a potent SFF gaming rig with the case and GPU picked from NVIDIA's curated list. For this, we got support from NVIDIA, Fractal, ASUS, Intel, Corsair and Thermal Grizzly. Naturally, as this initiative is from NVIDIA, the main focus will be on the case and graphics card—so the Fractal Design Mood and the ASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER OC Edition.