Difficult to find new case micro-ATX close to Silverstone SG10 or SG09

[Jandor]

I would be even okay with smaller (less large) vertical case, there are none to be found. Silverstone doesn't make those 2 any more.
I need 2 of them. I will use a graphics card less large than the major ones for instance the AMD RX 7900XT is of the good size to me or some other RTX 3060 I've seen.
The mainboard will be micro-ATX with a big top flow cooler. I'm astonished there is no case even close to what I'm looking for. Plenty of huge RGB weird cases but no practical case for a micro-ATX board everywhere including on Amazon.

 

[Zepher]

Ya, I was recently looking for a small case recently and couldn't find any.

I had this Silverstone years ago for my HTPC,

I ended up getting a white Corsair 280X since it was on sale for $112 shipped from Amazon, it is still a bit large though.

 

[Fritzz]

Closest I have been able to find to the SG10 and SG09 layout is going to be from Jonsbo. Most of the cases have the PSU above the CPU slot, so a tower cooler is usually a no go. I wasn't sure what you meant by a "big top flow cooler". Jonsbo has some older models that don't have any tempered glass, but might be harder to source. Here's a Link to their mATX offerings. Something like the D30 has a similar layout as the Silverstones albeit with TG, but if you don't add anything RGB, then it's just black. The V4 has no TG at all, but has the PSU over the CPU slot, so it might limit your cooling options.

 

[Zepher]

I just finished assembling mine and it's a lot smaller than I thought it would be. It's still quite a bit bigger than the old Silverstone I had.

 

[chameleoneel]

I would be even okay with smaller (less large) vertical case, there are none to be found. Silverstone doesn't make those 2 any more.
I need 2 of them. I will use a graphics card less large than the major ones for instance the AMD RX 7900XT is of the good size to me or some other RTX 3060 I've seen.
The mainboard will be micro-ATX with a big top flow cooler. I'm astonished there is no case even close to what I'm looking for. Plenty of huge RGB weird cases but no practical case for a micro-ATX board everywhere including on Amazon.

Off the top of my head:
Sliger Cerberus is one of the smallest MATX cases. But, very expensive. And, they are moving their company. Orders won't ship until February or something.

SAMA IM01 and IM02 are slightly larger. But, still quite small for MATX. Its low cost, but decent quality. I built a system for some kids and used an IM01. The layout is basically the same as the Cooler Master NR200 ITX case----but the IM01 is a little bigger, for MATX.

 

[Fritzz]

Those SAMAs look nice. Essentially a bigger version of the NR200 series.

 

[crazycrave]

Here is my Cooler Masterbox NR 400 with a Sapphire Pulse RX 6700 10Gb card

 

[kirbyrj]

Here is my Cooler Masterbox NR 400 with a Sapphire Pulse RX 6700 10Gb card

I built in the NR400 before and it's a very versatile case. I recommend it. Personally, I was looking at building mATX into the Silverstone Alta G1M.

 

[Burticus]

https://www.microcenter.com/product...e-v21-microatx-mini-tower-computer-case-black

What about this little cube? $79 at MC

 

[crazycrave]

I also have one of these mATX in Red with side window, it has an MSI B350m Gaming Pro (2017) board ,with the Ryzen 5 1600 AF and 32Gb of DDR4 3600Mhz running 3333Mhz. has a Power Color RX 580 8Gb in the top and full size Corsair CX 650m power supply,
the mother board is upside down and so is the video card, I have two 120mm fans down firing at the video card and it has a single tower cooler made by deep cool, very size package, all the outside panels are real Aluminum, I took my window and mounted it from inside case on that same panel, looks way better then outside.

https://www.newegg.com/black-raijintek-styx-series-micro-atx/p/2AM-002C-00015?Item=9SIA66Z38E4512

this is not mine, but they have a twin tower with no issue.

 

[Dan_D]

It's really because that era of case design is over. Companies have moved on. Trends change. PC's that look like audio equipment are basically as dead as the HTPC itself. With smart TV's and things like Firestick's and Roku's, the HTPC barely has any reason to exist beyond people wanting to digitize their own media collection and choose just how much quality they lose from the original media doing it. Your streaming services all offer 4K etc., but the actual quality pales compared to physical media. However, convenience usually wins the day on that. Thus, the HTPC is dead for everyone but the 12 or 13 people that refuse to abandon it.

PC's are a lot different inside with more emphasis on liquid cooling and a whole lot less capacity for 2.5" and 3.5" storage devices. 5 1/4" bays are all but extinct. Aluminum chassis have also gone extinct giving way to the steel and plastic that preceded them. Largely because of cost I suspect, but people like myself fell out of love with aluminum cases years ago for several reasons beyond that.

Finally, mATX is a popular OEM form factor but it's not exactly popular in the DIY arena. The reason being that people going for small form factor will typically opt for mITX instead. If you want extra expansion beyond what mini-ITX offers then you go full ATX or E-ATX. Just look at most motherboard manufacturers. They have little to offer in the mATX realm.

 

[Jandor]

https://www.microcenter.com/product...e-v21-microatx-mini-tower-computer-case-black

What about this little cube? $79 at MC

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Yes, well : 2 problems. hoorizontal motherboard and no optical drive (I know ... deprecated... but not for me).

Here is my Cooler Masterbox NR 400 with a Sapphire Pulse RX 6700 10Gb card

The NR 400 is huge.
Maximum size I would buy is Antex NSK-3100 for my micro-ATX.

I also found the Max-In Power Aero BM1084 with a cheap PSU I will replace. If somebody has some information about it...

 

[Fritzz]

Saw this one in another thread, not sure if it's too big, but holds a larger GPU and has an optical drive: Silverstone FARA 311