One Chassis, Two PCs: Phanteks Releases Enthoo Mini XL With Dual System
The case measures 550 x 260 x 480 mm (HxWxD) and has room for microATX and minITX builds. When you buy it, the package already comes with an ITX upgrade kit and the power splitter board. With two systems in one case, there are also two sets of I/O buttons: one located on top of the case and one in front.
For expansion and storage, it has five expansion slots and features two HDD cages, each with three slots for a total of six 3.5-inch HDDs. If you prefer SSDs, there are two SSD “Drop-N-Lock” slots. In addition to the two HDD cages, you could have a total eight SSDs for your system (that’s a lot of money). There’s also room for three 5.25-inch ODDs.
For graphics cards, you can have a GPU measuring up to 289 mm (410 mm if you don’t have the HDD cages in the way). Up to 215mm of clearance is allowed for the CPU cooler, and if you’re installing a radiator at the top, you’ll need 206 mm to get to the ATX motherboard.
If you’re using 120mm fans, you can have a total of 13 for the system, with two in the front, three on top, one in the rear (already included), three in the bottom, two in the HDD cage area, and two on the side. You can also upgrade to 140mm fans, but then you’re limited to only six fans -- two in the front (already included), two at the top, and two on the bottom.
Liquid cooling allows for 120 mm and 140 mm radiators. On the 120 mm side, you can have up to a 240 mm (2 x 120mm) radiator on the front, top and side, and a 360 mm radiator on the bottom (3 x 120mm, no SLI). For 140 mm, you can have only a 140 mm radiator on the front and top, and a 280mm radiator (2 x 140mm) on the bottom.
Phanteks didn’t have a specific release date, saying only that it’s coming out sometime this December. The new case will cost you $209.99.
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The only use I can think of (and it is listed on their website as well) would be a streaming system.
One system (the main board) runs the better hardware and provides the best gameplay possible, then the load of recording is handed off to the weaker system. This way you have a zero impact recording and streaming system.
It'd be handy if you want to game with someone next to you and two PCs is the only way the game allows. Or if you are in content creation and need a rendering rig, but while you're rendering something, still need a general purpose computer to do other work.
It's definitely niche, but I can think of a good few uses for such a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nPVLuWFNo
Network file server on office or SOHO environment
Media Server
Game Server
Why would anyone need more than 2 cores? (when I was first getting into computers at age 14 thats all I read when i was considering the core 2 quad)
Why would anyone need that much wattage?
Why would anyone need more than a 240mm radiator?
Why would anyone overclock for such small gains?
Why would anyone need a case that big?
Whats the point of more resolution?
Why would anyone want more than one system in a case. I dont know, who cares. Sounds cool to me.
i can also see it being useful for 2 powerful computers, 1 powerful one you are using to do work, and a second one that you offload renders to, so your main computer has little to no impact and you can continue working.
Might as well ask ....
Why would anyone want more money ?
Why would anyone want a bigger boat ?
Why would anyone want a faster car ?
Why would anyone want bigger boobs ?
Why would anyone want cosmetic surgery ?
But as to your questions:
1. Cause 4 is better / faster if you do more than game on your PC
2. Cause they have 2 or more high end video cards
3, Cause 240mm won't do much for a CPU Block, 2 GPU blocks, MoBo Block and two 23 watt water pumps
4.a Cause they ain't always small
4.b Cause it's fun
5. See 3.
6. Look at it and compare
And for all of the above .... cause we can !
It's harder now with less disposable income .... once the kids started riding the school bus, the other kids told them they get 3 meals a day at home .... had them convinced that "1 meal a day was fine ... read the label of Scruffy's dog food and see what it says".
it would be near impossible to try to get the two separate computers to efficiently work together. And you could always run 2 xeons on the same mobo you could get some socket 1366 cpus for about the price of a i5 and get a higher multi-core performance
I would agree. But in that situation it is too large and flashy really. Who needs a windowed case in an office?
You would also probably save some cash upfront, as well as in the long run, by buying a single highly efficient 80+ Platinum/Titanium PSU instead of 2x lower 80+ units.
So the difference from the Enthoo Mini XL is this includes the ITX upgrade option, got it.
I have looked before for a dual system case to use as a recovery machine. VMware ESXi on one system, Microsoft Hyper-V Server on another. But this is clearly a consumer targeted case.
You can put the strongest i7s you can buy into ITX boards.
Also there's no reason your main PC "needs" a full ATX board besides AMD FX cpus being power hungry garbage.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/SuperBlade/
Computers are more than only gaming at your bedroom.
I'd be interested to hear how this works out for you. I love the idea of it, for just the use case you describe (and others?), but the execution seems like it could be problematic. Be sure to let us all know how it goes! (And feel free to shoot me a PM when you do.)