Prodigy M - OCUK exclusive sneak peak

edGfaCTor said:
Look again you will find you lose out on a lot of options in this new one compared to the itx version.

as someone has already said you put a rad at top then you lose the extra pci ports whats the point in that poor design.

I can't see in that picture how you can have 4 hdd and 4ssd unless they all stack right on top of each other which if that is the case is poorly thought out.

These prodigy cases are not that small there is far smaller cases also there is atx cases around this sort of size

this is my opinion others with love this

do you know when the release date is?
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Prodigy is a very small case. those atx cases that are far smaller doesn't fit your radiators or as many hard drives now, do they?

Slim rads have equally the same performance as a high end air cooler, or a double thick 120mm rad. So if you choose a top mounted radiator, that's one compromise you're willing to have.

We'll show you more details on the case in terms of all the inside goodies, this is just a sneak peak :)
 
Frozennova said:
Yea I got an email this morning asking which colour alchemy cables I'd like and an eta for the arrival of the case.

Message me in trust, as I don't want to post too much publicly just in case

Also reminds me, I need to send some emails as I would like to do a sponsored watercooling build using the primochill rigid acrylic tubing.
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Worrying I ain't got owt :/ iv emailed you now for more info. Any info on my email xbournex? Probably not you dealing with it mind you
 
xbournex said:
Prodigy is a very small case. those atx cases that are far smaller doesn't fit your radiators or as many hard drives now, do they?

Slim rads have equally the same performance as a high end air cooler, or a double thick 120mm rad. So if you choose a top mounted radiator, that's one compromise you're willing to have.

We'll show you more details on the case in terms of all the inside goodies, this is just a sneak peak :)
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Have you by any chance seen ncase m1? it's mitx so it would be compared to your mitx prodigy but that's what i was getting at when i say waste of space.
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It could be the pictures angle that just doesn't do it justice but design wise I don't understand why you would flip the board if it was the other way with top rad then all the pci ports could be used also is there any places to hide cabling?

any details for people the sort of price range
 
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Now, M1 is a case where it's purpose was to be as small as possible. Prodigy was to be a no compromise case.
At 13 liters compared to 26 liters, you have double the radiator space, atx psu support, and over 105mm heatsink support. It just depends on how you use your case.

matx boards do not fit with it being horizontally placed.
 
xbournex said:
Now, M1 is a case where it's purpose was to be as small as possible. Prodigy was to be a no compromise case.
At 13 liters compared to 26 liters, you have double the radiator space, atx psu support, and over 105mm heatsink support. It just depends on how you use your case.

matx boards do not fit with it being horizontally placed.
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I agree I think the layout of the prodigy is great..

105mm? Is that the m1's heatsink clearence? Id really like to know what the prodigys is.. Im hoping for 165mm. :)
 
xbournex said:
Now, M1 is a case where it's purpose was to be as small as possible. Prodigy was to be a no compromise case.
At 13 liters compared to 26 liters, you have double the radiator space, atx psu support, and over 105mm heatsink support. It just depends on how you use your case.

matx boards do not fit with it being horizontally placed.
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M1 does support ATX PSUs and full length triple slot GPUs and dual 120mm rads...so the only reason to get the double size Prodigy is if you need the HDD space. In which case why not get the Node304.

Frankly the ITX Prodigy was a waste of space and the fact that you can now get it with an mATX board in just proves that.

This new Prodigy I would say is my favourite mATX case right now but the ITX one?...just no.
 
gropingmantis said:
M1 does support ATX PSUs and full length triple slot GPUs and dual 120mm rads...so the only reason to get the double size Prodigy is if you need the HDD space. In which case why not get the Node304.
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It does support ATX PSU's - up to 140mm in length and with that in mind, using a ATX PSU does not allow you to use dual 120mm rads - only 1 rad. Only with a use of a SFX power supply can you get away with using a slim radiator.

Rainagul said:
Hmm not a fan of this flipped mobo, shame
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how about now? :p
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xbournex said:
It does support ATX PSU's - up to 140mm in length and with that in mind, using a ATX PSU does not allow you to use dual 120mm rads - only 1 rad. Only with a use of a SFX power supply can you get away with using a slim radiator.
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I never said you could have all of them, merely pointing out that it does support an ATX PSU. And whats so wrong with an SFX PSU? Silverstone do a modular 450W 80+ Gold one. With one GPU if you are going over 450W then you are doing something wrong.

The M1 aside this case is great, but it does prove that the ITX Prodigy is a waste of space and should have been mATX from the start.
 
I was never a fan of the Mini-ITX Prodigy because I never saw the point of having so many hard drives in a SFF build, only then to rip them out to fit long graphics cards. I'm a sucker for the SG05 and with a little creativity you can fit practically anything in there (except big water loops of course).

But the Micro ATX Prodigy-M looks sweet, and I love Inverted ATX layouts. The big comparison will be the Silverstone Temjin TJ08E.


But just to fuel the flames of the "wasted space" argument, has anybody seen the E-ATX Prodigy mod? I know Bitfenix have because they sponsored some bits!
 
xbournex said:
It does support ATX PSU's - up to 140mm in length and with that in mind, using a ATX PSU does not allow you to use dual 120mm rads - only 1 rad. Only with a use of a SFX power supply can you get away with using a slim radiator.



how about now? :p
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Not really
 
itchy purchase finger, on a hair trigger ready for this case to turn up.... my tastes in cases have changed somewhat since I went fully Apple (iMac 27, MBA) and it's only the look of this case (plus spare bits from homer jobs) that's brought me back to building a PC again (plus the unused Windows 8 license).

Would be happy to use it upended as well even.
 
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