USFF builds almost always need a blower style cooler on the GPU. Top down coolers only work in cases with lots of airflow. I tried a top down GTX 970 in my FT03-mini (Silverstone) USFF ITX PC and the motherboard chipset spiked to 60c (with the blower card it never cracks 35c) to the internal case temp was just ridiculous...
BTW, nice spec's on the PSU. Not even a watt rating?
Judging from the back grill theres only a few millimeters (at most) clearance between the window and the fan intake, which does look very restrictive to me. I wonder if they change out the window for some with vent holes on higher power GPUs?
The cards don't suck air "in" from where you see the fan, they suck it in from the front of the card and simply move it through the fan and push it out the rear.
I wonder how portable this is and how it would stand up... I don't need a new main PC right now, but it seems like it could MAAAAAYBE replace my notebook, with a high end desktop 4 or 6 or 8 CPU part + desktop GTX 980 Ti for not that bad a price...
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sprockkets - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
Wouldn't you want some ventilation holes for that video card fan? Seems kinda restricted there.bigboxes - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
Looks like there are some intake holes at the front side of the case. The card exhausts out the rear of the case.Samus - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
USFF builds almost always need a blower style cooler on the GPU. Top down coolers only work in cases with lots of airflow. I tried a top down GTX 970 in my FT03-mini (Silverstone) USFF ITX PC and the motherboard chipset spiked to 60c (with the blower card it never cracks 35c) to the internal case temp was just ridiculous...BTW, nice spec's on the PSU. Not even a watt rating?
saratoga4 - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
Judging from the back grill theres only a few millimeters (at most) clearance between the window and the fan intake, which does look very restrictive to me. I wonder if they change out the window for some with vent holes on higher power GPUs?aebiv - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
The cards don't suck air "in" from where you see the fan, they suck it in from the front of the card and simply move it through the fan and push it out the rear.rtho782 - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
That isn't how radial fans work. They suck in where you see the fan, and push air out both ends of the cards in the case of the stock nVidia cooler.saratoga4 - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
>The cards don't suck air "in" from where you see the fan,Yes they do.
jasonelmore - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
i wish more of these Boutique pc makers would just sell their cases, and let us buy our own hardware.Cool case indeed, but the first thing i'd do is knock out that GPU Plexi-glass. It restricts you to blower type gpu's as well.
peterfares - Monday, March 7, 2016 - link
Why? This case is not that good looking, especially the cheap looking ports on the frontzodiacfml - Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - link
Right. I can't help notice the case design which appears cheap.ScarabMonkey - Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - link
So: this doesn't include Chrome OS and isn't made by EA Origin. How confusing ;/Wolfpup - Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - link
I wonder how portable this is and how it would stand up... I don't need a new main PC right now, but it seems like it could MAAAAAYBE replace my notebook, with a high end desktop 4 or 6 or 8 CPU part + desktop GTX 980 Ti for not that bad a price...