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Intel's new idea for their nucs is a good one on paper that they're implementing horribly. Laptop cpu, cooling that's up against the back of the installed gpu, I don't think there's a single aspect of this that they did right. Razer's case for it is bigger than a dancase for more money and less...

It costs you $0 to not be like this.

I'm pretty sure convection isn't so powerful as to render bottom exhaust fans useless. Even if it was, bottom radiators can (and I believe often do) have their fans as intakes, so saying bottom radiators are useless due to convection doesn't make sense either. I'd say bottom exhaust fans don't...

This handy spreadsheet seems up to date and looks promising

Funnily enough, from a design perspective, I'd imagine the top compartment expansion idea would be the most feasible. It likely wouldn't even need a new revision of the case. In addition to the toolless clips that hold the top panel on, there's also the screw holes for the psu bracket for it to...

The ncase m1 has a whole thread here dedicated to "matx" (usually flex-atx) motherboards that work with it. If all you need is one more pcie slot and you want as small as possible, that's your best bet.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supply-Units/Power-Supply-Units-Advanced/SF-Series/p/CP-9020182-NA It looks like it's available on their site? This is the first I've heard of it, so I don't know the story, but a Google search brought that up.

From what necere said, it'd be too deep. I wonder if one could mount an SFX-L power supply by its fan on the side bracket. I don't imagine it'd leave a whole lot of room for tall ram clearance, but it'd open up that entire side of the case.

In both cases, you need to have the requisite software installed, which requires a mouse/keyboard. You can navigate using a mouse or a keyboard, if you know how, but you still need at least one.

On a laptop that supports it maybe, but not on a gaming desktop, which is what's relevant to this thread.

That's usb though, no hdmi or displayport. It's useless for gaming on a desktop pc.

I said to you the the h200i is also a problematic and stupid name. I'm not saying that people seeking out the m1 specifically will purchase this by mistake, but people not yet familiar with the M1 or A4 might be misled. If someone came out with a case called the Sudo SD05, regardless of the...

If you don't care enough to contribute to the conversation then don't participate in it.

Again with the false equivalence. These products are competing in the same (or at least similar) space as the m1 and a4 (high-end sff). Not knowing about a competing product with the same name is not even close to the same as not knowing about some woodworking business with the same name. I'm...

And with each of those examples, they have something distinguishing them (though that last one is retarded for a different reason) from each other and everything else and imply that they're part of their own series that have nothing to do with one another. The first three have the Core...

That's not what I said and you know it. Do you really think the similarity in their names is a coincidence?

Care to elaborate?

Am I wrong?

My issue with these cases aren't their design. On the contrary, I love that mainstream case manufacturers are starting to compete in this market. The more the merrier. My issue is the blatant attempt to rip off the naming schemes of the most successful crowdfunded cases in an attempt to...

It blows my mind how blatant the attempts are at capitalizing on the m1's success, as well. There was a company a while back that tried this and literally called their case the M1. I can't remember which company it was so it obviously unsuccessful, but here we are again with this company calling...

I think it just comes down to a difference of opinion. Like I said, they're all good builds, great even, but what I would consider hall of fame material is something creative and/or exceptionally elegant in design and execution that not only pushes the boundaries of what's expected of function...

All good builds, though underwhelming for a "hall of fame" honestly. Ugly cable management, external radiators (defeating the point of such a compact case), and what I consider basic bitch builds make up the majority of the list. Most had at least one single creative element (though some notably...

Any word on why? I can think of several potential reasons but I'm just curious about the actual justification used, if you know.

Is it only the atx psu that interferes with longer motherboards, or is it the bracket itself? Because if it's the former, you might be able to get that extra length with an adapter to use an sfx psu with the atx bracket.

That's exactly what I mean though. In the ncase, an air cooler is always going to be eating hot air just due to there not being anywhere else to get air from. In a larger case you've got more room to separate components and allow more sources of fresh air and more potential exhaust points, but...

I'm not sure what gave you the impression that air cooling was superior, but it's just not the case. Liquid cooling lets the cooler always pull fresh air over it, while an air cooler will always only have access to what's inside the case. Not to say air cooling is bad, just far more dependant on...

What specs? Honestly the fact that it works at all is nuts, especially with the gpu at those temps. How high do you have the fan running? And as someone else asked, did you delid?

Compatibility? That overhang off the side looks problematic. I appreciate your enthusiasm, really, but consider the following. You're a new account, you've been creating threads that are closer to advertisements than requests for community input, and a lot of your data has been based on...

No. Sure there are people that collect hardware, and among those are people who collect cases, but even among those people the criteria for each collection is going to vary wildly and sometimes in ways that can't be easily quantified. You'd have to find not only someone willing to buy the M1 V1...

Don't forget flex-atx, which has had more discussion here than tfx.

The Google spreadsheet covering compatibility. There's a page in it for mATX (I'm not sure when it was last updated, but there's one z370 board) The thread dedicated to the discussing mATX in the M1 https://hardforum.com/threads/3-slot-matx-motherboard-in-ncase-m1.1812629/ EDIT: Apparently...

I wouldn't go around advising people to mod power supplies. Don't fuck with that if you don't know what you're doing.

If you're looking for the absolute quietest without throttling, you'll want beefy cooling and to do whatever you can to increase its effectiveness outside of ramping fan speed. The better your cooling system, the less work it'll have to do to keep your temps acceptable, the quieter it runs...

Never seen the cage, so I didn't know that. If you got another cage could you stack them, or do the screw holes not line up?

Ncase M1 supports some smaller matx boards. There's actually a community-maintained compatibility list somewhere for it. I don't know if it's the smallest exactly, but it's damn small and very flexible with what you can put in it.

They're both definitely under the psu. How the second one is mounted I can only speculate, but it looks like he might be using a bracket screwed to the side mounts on the bottom drive and the bottom mounts on the top drive, with the whole assembly attached to the bottom of the case via the...

Would moving the 120mm mount as high on the bracket as possible allow the possibility of multiple 2.5" drives in the bottom?

Okay but why though

I'm just here for the theoretical design anyway lol. If custommod has it at 3.2L within spec with regards to space between the gpu and mb, reducing it to the point that the gpu and mb are barely separated by a thin plastic shield could get that last .2L off that you need.

In that case, it's probably reducing the space between the motherboard and gpu below spec and will probably reduce compatibility with motherboards with m.2 drives.