Silverstone Makes Super Dense, Compact Al Case
A stylish, innovative way to cram your PC stuff.
Looking for a full featured, powerful computer but you don't want to have to deal with a big, clunky case? Silverstone was showing something off at Computex that is absolutely insane when it comes to component density.
Silverstone calls it the FT03, or the Fortress, and it's both stylish and ingeniously designed – or an absolute nightmare if you're a modder.
The Fortress can pack in a micro-ATX system complete with an ATI Radeon HD 5970, multiple hard drives (including two that are hot swappable) and a handful of fans to keep air moving rapidly in the cramped space.
The elongated square form is made up aluminum, giving it a fairly stylish exterior. We could spend time explaining every detail, but this case is better relayed through pictures.




















That is a pretty nifty case though!
yea same here, i'd even be ok with them posting something about apple... i think
last time I hears, that's called a "rectangle"....
That is a pretty nifty case though!
yea same here, i'd even be ok with them posting something about apple... i think
Seriously, as much as you guys hate apple, they did this way better with their G4 cube computer. Really nifty little proprietary form factor there. that said, it was a total pain in the ass to work on though, so yeah apple being proprietary kinda killed the niceness of it.
that aside, silverstone FAIL
That's what I'm thinking too. Silverstone makes some pretty decent products after all.
Same here. I open Tom's like every few hours, and on the weekends it's a constant "Aw, nothing new?".
I haven't actually had a case that does different. Only way it wouldn't is if there was a vent specially for the power supply, am I correct?
Seconded!
Looking at the pictures it seems it takes air from below the case and blow hot air out from the side (more or less like a case with PS on the bottom, that take air from the bottom and blow hot air from behind, cutting out the PS from the case air circulation) (an animation at the bottom of this page can help ).
So I don't think it blows air on the CPU at all.
Fanboi? You instantly discredit something just because it 'looks' like an Apple product? For one thing, it's an anodized aluminum finish, and it's a great finish for any tech product. And for another, it's not nearly as compact as an Apple chassis.