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Yes! At last!

Being a SFF, a modular PSU is A MUST! I still had to scratch my head thinking where I was going to put the wires at to help minimize airflow impedment. Again, it will depend on what equipment your going to be putting inside.

Amazingly, the hardest part was trying to get the DVD drive cover on correctly and damn with that 3M sticky tape, once its on, it aint never coming off unless by brute force. Kinda makes me wish I put on something a little less tougher, but I'll have to cross that bridge when I get to it, hopefully the damn DVD drive doesn't die on me anytime soon.

Stars aligned, i'll have my RMA'd drive soon and i'll have the system up and running this week for further impressions.
 
I didn't realize the interior was steel now. Perhaps this will prevent many more people from ripping the hell out of those terrible screw holes present in the Sugo 3.
 
i found the 4pin ATX powersupply a swine to install on my Sugo03/CorsairTX powersupply, because that cable wasn't modular and the motherboard placed that connector between the CPU and the backplate, i.e. right under the cooler and almost totally unreachable in such a cramped case.

i still love the case tho.
 
RonindeBeatrice said:
I didn't realize the interior was steel now. Perhaps this will prevent many more people from ripping the hell out of those terrible screw holes present in the Sugo 3.
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I was also surprised to see how much aluminum was on this case, damn near everything except the main chassis is aluminum, even the side doors, a far cry from my SG01F were only the front was aluminum.

And yes, this sucker is cramped, so you will have to build in layers and think about what your doing ahead of time. Its a SFF after all
 
I just unboxed and ran a test build of my new SUGO04B. Many of my parts have been pulled from my full ATX system, which the mobo just died. The SUGO was my opportunity to switch to mATX. I bought this case, a new mobo, ram and cooler and moved everything over. My new build is below. Since this was all unexpected, cost was a factor on my repair parts. Anyhow, thoughts:

-- Build quality is nice! This thing is metal pretty much everywhere and looks and feel great. Massive quality upgrade from my old P180B.

-- The manual is good, but I felt that in part their instructions encourage you to take the case apart way more than is needed. I understand their goal of showing you how to do every component and use every option the case has, but their step-by-step instructions make it seem like some steps should occur before others. At any rate, all an experienced person has to do is read through the whole thing, tinker a bit and figure out things for himself.

-- I like the way the HDD tray folds out from the bottom. I think swapping them will be very easy in the future.

-- I didnt "install" the CDROM door, which is the bay cover with tape. I'm just not ready to fix the cover on it. It feels so....permanent. I wish more case mfgs would use spring-loaded flip doors instead. Two-sided tape just seems such a cop-out when so much attn to detail has been put everywhere else.

-- Now everything is running with a fresh test install of Vista, with the wires hanging out connected to the PSU. I'm going to let it run for a while before I seal things up. I also just need to just take some time and think about cable mgt. Without a vid card, there is a lot of room. So, I've also decided not to install my old vid card (8800 GTS) and hobble along on the igpu 9400 until I upgrade to something faster. I think at that point I'll do all the wiring right when I know I wont have to do another vid card upgrade. I think SS markets this case as being able to do an SLI configuration, but I think it would be way tight for that.

-- Even after I think more about cables and wire things up tight, I can't help but think that at the end of the day, due to to the way the psu is loaded at the end, I'm just going to be stuffing cables in no matter what though. I guess that's the cost of SFF.

-- The gigabyte northbridge heatsink runs way hot. I know this is a flaw of the board, but I am trying to think of a way to cool it down.

Anyhow, so far so good and I overall love this case! I've pretty much decided to use SFF from now on and ditch the ATX platform.

GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8500 - Retail

Scythe SCSK-1100 100mm Shuriken Rev. B 3 Heat Pipes CPU Cooler - Retail

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ - Retail

LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16X DVD±R DVD Burner SATA Model GGC-H20L - Retail

Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD 74GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM

Thermaltake W0106RU 700W Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version SLI Certified 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
 
thats pretty nice looking. When the one with the handle came out, it made me angry on the inside, and I said/typed something to the effect of wanting to club a baby seal. This looks a lot cleaner. Silverstone makes a good product most of the time.
 
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