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coconutboy
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hands-on with raven intro vid. They pack a pretty beefy system inside including a titan gtx, skylake 6700k, 2 ssds and an m.2 ssd.
with dust filters and handle
w/ plexiglass windows
Raven model rvz02
Milo base model sells for ~$74, and can be fitted with a handle ($10) and/or windows.
Raven rvz02 offers window option, but no handle.
Anyone gotten to see one of these up close and tinker with it? Both cases look like excellent refinements over previous models. I especially like the slim footprint (gimme back my desk space!) and handle. I'm curious about the fit and finish of both. Unlike all the other pix I've seen, the zoomed-in close ups of the handle on newegg don't look well fitted, but then again, newegg was also too lazy to remove the tape covering the front usb port slot. This is a better shot.
The use of a riser to separate the vid card into it's own compartment has been done by several companies in the past, but this implementation looks especially slick and well engineered. I'm not too fond of the look of the dust filters (both the gpu and cpu intakes have them), but the fact a case this tiny and slim even has dust filters is awesome. If those are too ugly? Forego them and slap on optional windows. I'm impressed.
People who wanna load up on radiators won't be interested, and there's also zero case fans to aid in venting air, but it'd be extremely difficult to build a slim and slick itx case like this as shown by the few modders crazy (and skilled) enough to do both here at the [H] and bit-tech. Even then, those guys always end up having major headaches and sometimes spend years trying to create a solid design so I think Silverstone has done well by comparison. The slim width also means noise from the cpu and gpu fans is headed straight out of the case with almost zero baffling to dampen the whine; component choice is critical for low noise (blower gpu or not? I'm thinking blower).
I was about to pull the trigger on a new i7-5820k and slap it into my beastly Lian Li tower, but it might just be time to pick up a cooler-running i7-6700 instead, slap it into one of these, and reclaim my desk! Wonder if I could somehow modify those fugly air filters?
with dust filters and handle
w/ plexiglass windows
Raven model rvz02
Milo base model sells for ~$74, and can be fitted with a handle ($10) and/or windows.
Raven rvz02 offers window option, but no handle.
Anyone gotten to see one of these up close and tinker with it? Both cases look like excellent refinements over previous models. I especially like the slim footprint (gimme back my desk space!) and handle. I'm curious about the fit and finish of both. Unlike all the other pix I've seen, the zoomed-in close ups of the handle on newegg don't look well fitted, but then again, newegg was also too lazy to remove the tape covering the front usb port slot. This is a better shot.
The use of a riser to separate the vid card into it's own compartment has been done by several companies in the past, but this implementation looks especially slick and well engineered. I'm not too fond of the look of the dust filters (both the gpu and cpu intakes have them), but the fact a case this tiny and slim even has dust filters is awesome. If those are too ugly? Forego them and slap on optional windows. I'm impressed.
People who wanna load up on radiators won't be interested, and there's also zero case fans to aid in venting air, but it'd be extremely difficult to build a slim and slick itx case like this as shown by the few modders crazy (and skilled) enough to do both here at the [H] and bit-tech. Even then, those guys always end up having major headaches and sometimes spend years trying to create a solid design so I think Silverstone has done well by comparison. The slim width also means noise from the cpu and gpu fans is headed straight out of the case with almost zero baffling to dampen the whine; component choice is critical for low noise (blower gpu or not? I'm thinking blower).
I was about to pull the trigger on a new i7-5820k and slap it into my beastly Lian Li tower, but it might just be time to pick up a cooler-running i7-6700 instead, slap it into one of these, and reclaim my desk! Wonder if I could somehow modify those fugly air filters?
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