Spec me a SFF case

Slinkie

Slinkie

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Hi all,

Can you please spec me an SFF case that will be able to do the following.

Fit a H50 cpu cooler
Fit a fullsize gfx card (ati 5850)
Fit an SDD, a mechanical drive and a 3.5" blu ray player.
Fit a full size PSU

I've tried looking for one for a reasonable price but nothing seems to be able to do all of the above!

Thanks
 
The Bitfenix is hardly small though, it's only 4cm smaller than my antec 300 which holds atx boards. I am trying to save a bit of room but still get the same performance that I have now.

Will have a look at the other one.
 
Slinkie said:
The Bitfenix is hardly small though, it's only 4cm smaller than my antec 300 which holds atx boards. I am trying to save a bit of room but still get the same performance that I have now.

Will have a look at the other one.
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YAY finally someone with some sense. Look at the SG08 (ok so you are limited to 140mm length PSUs but the one it comes with is top notch) which is pretty but also pretty pricey. Or for slightly larger you could look at the new CM Elite 120 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-298-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

When you say 3.5" do you mean a 5.25" or a smaller slimline laptop one?
 
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Well lets be fair the BF case takes MAMMOTH coolers and huge cards, so lets not completely dismiss it on size.

HOWEVER those are the specs. the size of the box in the middle of those handles is gonna be and feel a lot smaller than any ATX case would be, even the Lian-Li case which is literally an ATX board high as it has the PSU under the drive bays in the front.

It is small, and it's called Small Form Factor, not Tiny case PCs only. ITX is a SFF.
 
dillingerdan said:
Well lets be fair the BF case takes MAMMOTH coolers and huge cards, so lets not completely dismiss it on size.

HOWEVER those are the specs. the size of the box in the middle of those handles is gonna be and feel a lot smaller than any ATX case would be, even the Lian-Li case which is literally an ATX board high as it has the PSU under the drive bays in the front.

It is small, and it's called Small Form Factor, not Tiny case PCs only. ITX is a SFF.
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Well now no. Just no. Lian-li PC-Q08, Silverstone SG07/08, Cooler Master Elite 120. All 3 of these cases will take an ATX PSU and any length graphics card. Add to this the fact that they can all easily take an all-in-one watercooling solution and you have to beg the question: Why would you buy a significantly larger case just to fit your Silver Arrow/NH-D14? When a) most ITX motherboards are not capable of overclocking to a level where such a cooler is necessary; and b) under conditions where the CPU is not significantly overclocked they perform as well as all-in-one watercoolers. Oh sure the Prodigy is probably the smallest case some people have noticed before....because its massive....unnecessarily so.

I have an SG08 (ok its very expensive but you could interchange everything I have in it with the Cooler Master Elite 120 which is only slightly bigger) with an HD 6970 in it (not a small card and there is still plenty of room) I have a 600W 80+ Gold rated PSU (FSP Aurum) and an i5-2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz being cooled by a Prolimatech Samuel-17 cooler that keeps it at 40-45C Idle and never goes above 60C. Try explaining to me or anyone else why it is necessary to buy a case large enough to fit, at the very least, a mATX motherboard to get the same setup as I have?

Bottom line. The Prodigy cannot be classed as SFF, its too big. If I put an ITX mobo in a Corsair 800D is that then an SFF PC?
 
gropingmantis said:
Well now no. Just no. Lian-li PC-Q08, Silverstone SG07/08, Cooler Master Elite 120. All 3 of these cases will take an ATX PSU and any length graphics card. Add to this the fact that they can all easily take an all-in-one watercooling solution and you have to beg the question: Why would you buy a significantly larger case just to fit your Silver Arrow/NH-D14? When a) most ITX motherboards are not capable of overclocking to a level where such a cooler is necessary; and b) under conditions where the CPU is not significantly overclocked they perform as well as all-in-one watercoolers. Oh sure the Prodigy is probably the smallest case some people have noticed before....because its massive....unnecessarily so.

I have an SG08 (ok its very expensive but you could interchange everything I have in it with the Cooler Master Elite 120 which is only slightly bigger) with an HD 6970 in it (not a small card and there is still plenty of room) I have a 600W 80+ Gold rated PSU (FSP Aurum) and an i5-2500K overclocked to 4.5GHz being cooled by a Prolimatech Samuel-17 cooler that keeps it at 40-45C Idle and never goes above 60C. Try explaining to me or anyone else why it is necessary to buy a case large enough to fit, at the very least, a mATX motherboard to get the same setup as I have?

Bottom line. The Prodigy cannot be classed as SFF, its too big. If I put an ITX mobo in a Corsair 800D is that then an SFF PC?
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Erm again look at the case. It's specs say its so big BUT IT ISN'T. It's about the size of the Q08 just slightly tweaked so the PSU doesn't block your CPU cooler room. And the extra Centimetres are the handles. It has the same 1 ODD bay with 5 3.5" side loading bays beneath. It probably is slightly larger but not by much for christs sake. It could probably JUST take an mATX board but it doesn't.

And let''s not forget the boards we are on. Overclockers. Granted there might not be the need for massive coolers and the expensive ITX MBs that do overclock but don't dismiss it from the equation because you don't like it. Great for you it isn't going to be a great choice your happy with your set-up. I am not forcing you into a Prodigy. Just making the case that it isn't that big. Especially considering you haven't even seen it in person yet, no doubt. Considering I have had one on order since they went up and I haven't got it yet.

Plus your "bottom line" is completely redundant. The BF Prodigy takes ITX MBs only. Therefore it only supports SFF MBs therefore it IS a SFF case. It's a large one but not every XL-ATX case is the size of the CaseLabs stuff is it? Hell If I was fussy I'd class all the cases you've mentioned as "too big to be SFF" really. Anything that cannot slip under the gap between my TV and the cabinet it sits on is not small enough. Half the ITX cases are the size of mATX cases, so whats the point? Then mATX is the size of ATX cases... it goes on. Get a laptop/nettop if portability or size is important. Power and Size? The lines get blurry!


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