News Silverstone SFF PC fits full size graphics cards

It appears that my shuttle might face early retirement....

 

Aww man, I just built high-end gaming PC with a SG05. We were kinda limited by the size of the graphics and CPU cooler in that case. This one would've been perfect!

By the way he wanted a computer that was not only easy to carry around to LAN parties, but that would also be very unique.

 

I know what my next build will be. I wonder what the case sides look like.

 

well it's not on their website, but I can show you what the lianli looks like

Looks like the PSU-Depth is limited though...and the PSU is limiting the cooler hight.
I like how the graphics card cooler will intake from the bottom, in combination with an "exhausting" graphicscard, only little heat (backside PCB) should remain in the chassis.

The Silverstone puts the PSU completely out of the way as it seems, there might even be room for a full size cooler the way it looks.
You'd have to turn it 90° though, as there's no exhaust on the back...
Shame it's not on their website.

 

My thinking with the Lian Li would be to have the Corsair H50 using the fan vent on the roof.

 

Except the QMicra was mATX, and almost double the volume.

It's a nice case. I don't like the front they've got going now, but maybe they will have a different front when it comes out.

The last 3 computers I have owned, aside from my server/HTPC, have only had one expansion card, and that being a GPU. No need to take up a huge amount of space when it can be done smaller and more compact.

 

Years ago, I built an HTPC for my brother's small apartment & his Samsung 47" and used the SG01 case, and the thing still rocks strong. I don't see much difference between this case and the old SG-01 except for the missing extra drive bay(s) in the front, which I used for a single Blu-Ray drive and a multi-format card reader. The extra fans look nice, but I suspect they might be superfluous. Plus, no extra drive bay will require an external card reader. That old case fit everything just fine and I didn't even have to use the extra FX-121 fan to keep the case cool. The SG-01 fits a full power supply, and you don't need a foot-long vid card to play the latest games. Sorry, this one doesn't beat the SG-01, IMO. Am I missing something?

 

Luken - SG01 is MicroATX, this is mini-ITX which is significantly smaller.

 

Not really
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroATX

Dimensions of the SG-01 I built are: 263 mm (W) x 216 mm (H) x 393 mm (D)
I can't seem to find dimensions for the SG-07. Still, no-space for a card reader & too many fans still makes it a don't-buy in my book.

 

Too many fans? It has ONE: 18cm. And, PSU, which they all have.

Card reader: USB?

It's several centimetres smaller in both directions. Not a massive amount, no, but still more mobile than MicroATX

 

There's no pictures of the sides... As the front and back are solid, all the air has to come from the top-18cm fan, right?

I prefer the BTX-Style, suck-in-front-blow-out-rear, but it's very rare in µatx and microATX

 

Ooh. I rather like that. It's a slick design, and you could fit a fully capable gaming system next to your HDTV. I like it.

I can see now why people like diddy builds, even though I myself prefer cases to be somewhere around the size and mass of the sun.

 

i'm likeing, now just need something like the msi 890GX matx board in uitx format

 

I want it!

 

Oh yeah, my bad I read ITX as ATX I think

 

They did have one and there is plenty of grills in the right areas, but it's not final yet iirc so I'll show it in the final review

 

The closest thing you'll get is a J&W 785G with AM3 socket on mini-ITX. Rarer than rocking horse **** I'd guess by now.

 

Hm, is there a decent mITX 775 board with x16 PCI-e slot? was thinking of putting SFF machine together using spares around my room, would just need the board and this case.

 

try http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-geforce-gf9300-i-e-itx-wifi-lga-775-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html Omnituens thats the motherboard i'm using in my girlfriends gaming machine.

 

Looking good!