Caselabs cases

[orangpelupa]

i feel ashamed with my "Airy" and "breeze" PC case :/

 

[Albuquerque]

The picture with it sitting on your desk and next to your monitor? That doesn't look anything like a Mini-ITX case at the end of the day. In this specific regard, what was the "gain" in going uITX?

 

[DuckThor Evil]

The picture with it sitting on your desk and next to your monitor? That doesn't look anything like a Mini-ITX case at the end of the day. In this specific regard, what was the "gain" in going uITX?

Yeah It's not a small case by any stretch of the imagination:

size: 14.94"H x 10.54"W x 15.03"D (380mm x 268mm x 382mm)

Thing is after having gotten used to Caselabs build quality and feel, I'm not sure I want to look anywhere else. Their other cases are way bigger. There will be a Mercury S5 soon, and that is a micro ATX case, so that could have been a good choice too, but me and waiting don't always go hand in hand. For my needs I don't need more features though.

 

[Albuquerque]

So an obvious question: why would you put a hot card like a GTX 690 into a case where it "exhales" straight into a solid plexiglass window? That seems far less than optimal. A better design would've had the video card facing up, and with all that space in that (relatively speaking) huge enclosure, would have offered some airspace to vent into.

My little Silverstone case has an immense quantity of room surrounding the PEG slots; the space and the cooling flow is perfect for hot PEG cards to ventilate up and forward, drawing cool air in from the front and out the well-perforated back along with a draw-through fan at the top. I understand that my case isn't likely to meet your aesthetic wishes though

 

[DuckThor Evil]

So an obvious question: why would you put a hot card like a GTX 690 into a case where it "exhales" straight into a solid plexiglass window? That seems far less than optimal. A better design would've had the video card facing up, and with all that space in that (relatively speaking) huge enclosure, would have offered some airspace to vent into.

My little Silverstone case has an immense quantity of room surrounding the PEG slots; the space and the cooling flow is perfect for hot PEG cards to ventilate up and forward, drawing cool air in from the front and out the well-perforated back along with a draw-through fan at the top. I understand that my case isn't likely to meet your aesthetic wishes though

GTX 690 doesn't exhale from the fan, it sucks air and pushes the air through the two heat sinks in the card. Half of the air gets exhausted out at the back of the case, the other 50% gets exhausted into the case from the back of the card.

The card sits in the window, because the airflow is sufficient to allow such vanity . The window is an option. I could have chosen the vented side panel, but since I have 2 120mm and one 140mm fan as intake and the heat from the CPU gets exhausted out with a closed loop Kuhler watercooling unit the card does have enough cool air to breath adequately.

This case is basically designed to hold two 240mm radiators or one 280 and a 240. I don't think too many will be running mostly air cooling with these, but it works well enough. Caselabs is about options

I like Silverstone too, my previous rig was in Raven 2 and the new SG10 looked very interesting and I was also contemplating between GD07/08 HTPC cases, but then I noticed that this Mercury S3 is just to about to ship and I had to get it. They are so sturdy and solid that you just have to love them.