Evo labs

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Anyone any experience of or information about the evo labs e-A2 mini ITX cube case?
This is a budget case from a manufacturer that specialises in low cost cases, so I hardly expect the best of everything from it, but it should ( I hope ) do what I need.
Seems to be only one pic of it doing the rounds, and the same paragraph of text from everywhere selling it. Very minimal information at best.
Not a review of it anywhere.
Now I know its hardly the overclockers or gamers idea of a case, but my system will be quite modest, browsing, movies, mail and documents......For now at least.
Three things I like about this case.
A....Its cheap............
B.....Its tiny for a not unsightly cube
C... I can use one of my Seasonic AXT PSUs in the build, fanless or semi fanless, both fully modular.
Oh and it has a USB3 port, some cheaper cases do not.
Whatever else it may or may not have will remain a mystery until it arrives. Yes, I ordered one blind. Not that much of a risk at sub £20.00 posted.
 
Been a while.

Well, I have used this case 24-7 since last posting and it is just sitting there doing its job, nothing bad or untowards to report.
Saying that, I intend some changes soon which will test its thermal qualities and I will duly report the finding.
Right now its got an ASrock H97m/ITX-ac with 8GB HyperX, a 160W Pico PSU,
Samsung 120GB 840Pro boot and a 2.5" Tosh 1 TB data drive.
Running on chip GPU about lowest onboard intel graphics you can get, but handles all I need in movies, photoshop etc.
The CPU cooler is a 45mm high Alpenfrohn Silvretta which has a 95 Watt TDP and is a virtually silent operator.
I have 120mm Silentwings case fan in behind the front bezel running via a resistive link, so a silent spinner although its a very very quiet fan anyway.
Given the build, the case is spacious with no ATX PSU so airflow is no problem.
What I intend to do:
Ramp the BIOS from 1.1 to 1.8 to clock the G3258K to probably 4 Ghz maximum, fit a Gigabyte 4850 2GB passive GPU ( because I have it doing nothing and its about the top iteration of the 4850) and pull out the Pico and fit my Seasonic m12 modular semi fanless.
So that will increase the workload and the temperature a bit........
Once done will monitor temps etc and make amendments as needed.
Case itself is very stable and solid, had same issue with soft threaded screws so replaced them with ones in spares bin. Otherwise a surprisingly robust and easy to build in case that does not look bad at all. Plus no sharp edges and good thickness panels, no tinny sheets here.
System temps as I type are:
CPU 26 C
motherboard 24C
Samsung SSD 29C
1TB Tosh spinner 26C
and the box has run none stop for at least a month albeit with no great demands on it!
 
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