At PAX West, Antec, in a partnership with Razer, showed off a new small form factor case for Mini ITX systems called the Antec Cube – Designed By Razer. The new case is an angular forward leaning design with an all-black finish complemented by green LEDs and darkened acrylic windows on the sides and top. It sports a green power button, green triple snake Razer logo, front IO on the top edge of the front panel with green USB 3.0 ports, and green LED under-glow strips on the left and right bottom sides. Needless to say, this is the case for fans of the color green (heh).
Internally, the Antec Cube – Designed By Razer (Why must this have such a long name?) can accommodate Mini ITX motherboards, ATX power supplies, three expansion slots, one 3.5” hard drive, and up to four 2.5” drives. It has decent component support with room for GPUs up to 350mm (~13.77”) with front intake fans removed and CPU coolers up to 190mm (~7.48”) tall. The motherboard is installed upside down so GPUs will be closest to the top of the case. The power supply is hidden in the bottom of the case by a shroud that allows you to hide your rats nest of cables (heh) as well.
As for cooling, the small form factor case has support for up to a 140mm rear exhaust fan and two 120mm intake fans in the front (or a 240mm water cooling radiator).
I think that this case would be a good fit for a custom water cooling loop as an air cooled GPU may have a hard time being up top with little ventilation, especially if it is not of the blower style design and is dumping heat out into the top of the case. Also, it would look cooler (heh). Actually, Antec showed off a water cooled system using the case at PAX West which you can see in this video thanks to Steve Burke over at Gamer’s Nexus who was at the show. It does have some nice features including a removable PSU dust filter and a new click system for the side panels that reportedly make them easy to remove and install.
The case will be sold individually as well as in pre-built systems in the US while in China it will be sold exclusively with pre-built PCs from OEMs. Production is slated to begin next month with availability by the end of the year. There is no word yet on pricing, unfortunately.
What do you think about the new SFF case? And those green LEDs?
Reverse ITX layout
Reverse ITX layout automatically makes this interesting to me to look into more details.
“What do you think about the
“What do you think about the new SFF case?”
At 42 Litres, this may be an ITX case but it is emphatically NOT SFF!
You could fit nearly 4 Ncase M1s in there (EACH of which would support multiple 3.5″ and 2.5″ drives, a full-length GPU, and 1 or even 2 240mm rads). Or if you forwent the AIO and 3.5″ drives you could stack SIX Zaber Sentrys in the same volume.
Six entire systems! This isn’t SFF, this is just sad.
Compared to this behemoth its
Compared to this behemoth its small form factor :-).
https://pcper.com/reviews/Cases-and-Cooling/Phanteks-Enthoo-Primo-Full-Tower-Enclosure-Review
Antec Cube: 365 x 250 x 460mm (HxWxD)
NCASE M1: 250 x 160 x 338mm (HxWxD includes feet/rear protrusions)
Yeah it is a bit bigger then! Doesnt look too big in the video though.
aesthetics looks pretty good,
aesthetics looks pretty good, but it definitely isn’t very small.
This looks good! I expect
This looks good! I expect decent airflow too..