Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis

I&#x27;m a big fan of this form factor, specifically just big enough to fit a motherboard&#x2F;CPU&#x2F;RAM plus a real-size GPU. These all use SFX PSUs and typically just an M2 SSD on the motherboard. They also have only 2 RAM slots.<p>The days of needing a tower are over for most people. I&#x27;m all about space-saving while still having a full-power PC.<p>It&#x27;s a niche, boutique market but there are some really interesting cases. My personal favourite is the Louqe Ghost S1 [1]. I&#x27;ve built one PC with this (the Mk II). I bought a Mk III case but couldn&#x27;t source a GPU so ended up just buying a CyberpowerPC prebuilt (which is actually a pretty nice PC, to be fair).<p>They&#x27;re not cheap and they&#x27;re kind of annoying to buy. Louqe in particular has had huge distribution problems in the US (through Amazon&#x27;s logistics service).<p>Another popular one is the Dan A4 [2]. It&#x27;s smaller. I personally prefer the Ghost for having better airflow, being more modular and being able to expand the case with &quot;top hats&quot;. This allows you to add a 240mm AIO and bottom fans for some pretty darn good cooling and airflow.<p>Anyway, I&#x27;m always excited to see entrants in this market.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.louqe.com&#x2F;ghost-s1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.louqe.com&#x2F;ghost-s1&#x2F;</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dan-cases.com&#x2F;dana4.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dan-cases.com&#x2F;dana4.php</a>

I mean...neat? But the price is insane. £195 for a very basic case that you have to assemble yourself?

I love &#x27;no frills&#x27; PC cases, but to me, this case has frills. The bright orange, the rounded corners and all the cutouts. This PC case is a &#x27;wow! what is that weird PC case!?&#x27; type of case. I like cases that you dont even notice: Sliger designs [1]<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sliger.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cases&#x2F;cerberus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sliger.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;cases&#x2F;cerberus&#x2F;</a>

Re: mini itx cases, I&#x27;m surprised no one is mentioning the meshlicious case[1] (linking to Newegg because ssupd&#x27;s website seems to always be so slow). The nice thing about this case is that it comes with a pcie riser allowing for some pretty large GPUs to fit in it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newegg.com&#x2F;black-ssupd-meshlicious-mini-itx&#x2F;p&#x2F;2AM-030R-00006" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newegg.com&#x2F;black-ssupd-meshlicious-mini-itx&#x2F;p&#x2F;2A...</a>

I just built a Ryzen 5800x &#x2F; B550i &#x2F; RTX 3080 (well, 3080 is arriving tomorrow) to replace an aging i7-2600k + 980ti build mid tower, used an 18L CoolerMaster NR200p case [1], and pretty happy with that case overall-- lots of flexibility, though a bit bigger than most of the SFF PCs.<p>The Teenage Engineering case looks great as a non-gaming, everyday-use build, if a larger GPU isn&#x27;t needed.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coolermaster.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;cases&#x2F;mini-itx&#x2F;masterbox-nr200p&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coolermaster.com&#x2F;catalog&#x2F;cases&#x2F;mini-itx&#x2F;masterbo...</a>

Having built ITX for NAS before I would highly suggest to get a SAMA IM01 mATX case which is almost as small as an ITX case and will let you avoid ITX price premiums on MB&#x27;s, RAM, and GPX cards. mATX MB&#x27;s are much cheaper and will give you lot more options.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newegg.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;N82E16811197012" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newegg.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;N82E16811197012</a>

That&#x27;s a very expensive price for unassembled computer case with questionable aesthetics and missing many premium features of similarly priced products. I don&#x27;t even think this is a good market fit. I don&#x27;t think this case would be a good learning tool.

Given that the ncase is now out of production this may be one of the best sub 10L cases out there. Hybrid 2 slot card in my ncase would likely slot perfectly fine in this guy.<p>Also y&#x27;all gotta stop hating on this price it&#x27;s actually very reasonable in the sff pc case market.

£195 for 1mm sheet aluminium which you have to assemble (and bend) yourself?<p>Fools and their money...

If you want a good mini-ITX case, just buy a Node 202. You can use it horizontally and put your monitor on top of it.<p>Buy power-efficient components and load it with the thickest and biggest Noctua PWM fans possible, and set the fan curves low, and its basically totally silent.

Funny, I was just drafting an email to Teenage Engineering today begging for a replacement for my ancient iPod. Since this seems related I&#x27;ll just paste in my notes here:<p>Dear Teenage Engineering,<p>Please make a modern FLAC (MP3, M4A, ...) player with your signature style and OLED screen. Running Linux with USB keyboard capabilities for bonus points. No wireless whatsoever, with songs transferred over USB mass storage protocol, much like the OP-1.<p>(0) Seamless playback, shuffle, volume (normalization option?), balance, EQ, ... (1) Song listings (why do so many music apps completely fail to simply list all my songs?!) (2) Album, artist, etc grouping and sorting (3) Search (4) Album art (5) ...<p>- 64GB minimum<p>- ~100x50x10mm<p>- IO:<p><pre><code> - 3.5mm 3 channel (left&#x2F;right&#x2F;mic) - Play&#x2F;pause, left, right, up, down, in&#x2F;out, power switch - ~2&quot; screen, backlit OLED - USB-C - Dedicated power?</code></pre>

At this price point... it&#x27;s made for fans. Fans of Teenage Engineering.

Beautiful but no thanks, too expensive.<p>I am constantly searching for good itx cases but at this point given the prices I see I’d rather buy an Ender3 and print one myself.

I&#x27;m actually on the lookout for a small case but for a different purpose - I want to build a NAS enclosure that will hold at least 4 full size 3.5&quot; drives in the most compact form factor possible. I was hoping one of those might do the trick but they are not geared towards 3.5&quot; HDD

The photos show it powder coated flat, then bent. I wonder how they kept the coat from flaking off at the bends?

I was actually just today looking at chassis like this for an upcoming build, really good timing! This looks really neat.<p>However, I&#x27;m leaning more towards a horizontal chassi (think like a piece of stereo equipment or something). I think it could be pretty nice to have it lying on a shelf &#x2F; on top of a AV rack, and then run a Thunderbolt cable to a small desk nearby.<p>I found the F12C from Streacom [0] which matches my aesthetic bend perfectly (it is available without the hideous optical media slot). But it&#x27;s a tad to thick.. Thinner by mounting the graphics card rotated with a raiser would be awesome. Any tips greatly appreciated!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streacom.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;f12c-atx-case&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streacom.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;f12c-atx-case&#x2F;</a>

I currently have a massive full tower PC that&#x27;s water cooled and to be honest I hate it. Its great for gaming but otherwise I think I would much rather have a small mini-ITX pc like this that can be portable, and when I need to run demanding code I can just use a VPS.

What monitor is that?

Does anyone have DIY designs (shapes to mill&#x2F;laser cut) for something similar to this? I refuse to pay more than 50€ for a case, yet would like something somewhat compact and able to hold my 4 3,5” and 2 2,5” drives (cooling requirements are not very high).

I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s sold out. I was tempted to buy it even though I know I&#x27;d screw it up doing the bending and separating myself. I&#x27;m so bad at DIY. I know to buy extras and backups for everything because of how often I screw stuff up.

tech products seem to always fall into one of two camps:<p>- made by an evil society-destroying corporation<p>- sold out forever

I’m still looking for a case and this one is pretty cute.<p>But of course I’m gonna complain about the price again. Even though this looks pretty innovative (I haven’t seen an “assemble yourself” construction like this before) and this looks something potentially leading to a huge price reduction (I’m gonna guess production cost is somewhere around the 10-25€ mark), it’s still … 200€??? Egh.<p>I guess they’re selling the brand.<p>But that’s also weird, because I would figure that people who care about the brand tend to not build their own computers (is this assumption wrong?), instead usually opting for the fruit brand.

Yeah, it looks really nice indeed, which is unfortunately rare for PC cases. But no thanks, computing power and low noise are more important to me. Waiting for a nice looking and silent ATX case :&gt;

This is nice, but I just built my first ITX based SFFPC in the GEEK G1 SE and would consider it to have fewer frills, while not requiring assembly, and about half the price. I don&#x27;t see it mentioned too often so wanted to share it as an option if you want to go this route but keep it simple. Great airflow too :) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geeekstore.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;geeek-g1-se-miniitx-case&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geeekstore.com&#x2F;shop&#x2F;geeek-g1-se-miniitx-case&#x2F;</a>

I wonder what the RF emissions are like on that case.<p>Genuinely curious, if someone gets one, that has access to the proper test gear, could you look for RF spurs emitted from that chassis?<p>Some combos of circuit boards, in the wrong enclosures crush WiFi (and cellular). If you ever have persistent WiFi issues in your house, isolate your network gear (modem&#x2F;router&#x2F;AP) to a single circuit breaker, and just start killing circuits in the house until your problem goes away.<p>Then start turning things on until the problem returns.

got the email, saw it 5-6min later, already sold out. neato

Dug a bit for size info: <i>&quot;outer dimensions (mm): W 170 D 190 H 322&quot;</i><p>So a bit over 10 liters. About the size of some gaming computers MSI used to sell (Nightblade, I think), for around 1k fully loaded with RAM, HD+SSD, Intel CPU, and Nvidia graphics. Plus led light bars, etc.<p>200 for an industrial looking orange case seems a bit of a fashion statement.

Those handles make it a good LAN party case!

I just built a new computer with the XTIA Proto-N and I&#x27;m really really happy with it. It&#x27;s super compact, easy to access and swap out components and quite pleasing to the eye. It&#x27;s also not as expensive as a lot of closed m-ITX cases either. Highly recommended!

Since they give something very similar to blue-prints, can it be considered open source? Certainly no free (as in speech) because they say nothing about licensing.<p>Also, given I have dimensions and diagrams, how is called the type of service which builds it &quot;from source&quot;?

First time seeing this brand. The site is cool and their products seem interesting but I can&#x27;t quite figure out the market segment here?<p>Do they focus on audio gear (synths, speakers, ect..) clothes, computer cases?? Product lines seem all over the place.

@teenage.engineering - the 2nd - 3rd line of hero text is hidden by the image on mobile.

Anyone know who makes that industrial-looking plywood top table shown in the photos?

I was wondering if I put a 3080 in there, would it fit?? The card&#x27;s dimensions are 285 mm x 112 mm x 40 mm The chasis supports dual-slot up to 180 mm.<p>so I think the answer is...nope :(<p>now the next question is: what GPU can I fit that&#x27;s dual and 180mm?

They intentionally load a blurred image before the real image, as if you are viewing a progressive jpeg (for all their products, not just this chassis). highly annoying. i&#x27;ll pass on this design aesthetic myself!

I own a bunch of TE products. They charge way too much for some of them.<p>Their modular synths are particularly terrible, and have so much structural give when you just put your hands on it. Reminds me of an erector set

I really is an excellent design aesthetic. I would love to see what these folks would do with the notion of designing a modular home &#x27;rack&#x27; system for in-home services.

I need to know how airflow works for me to ever consider any case.

180mm GPU is a shame. Would be an instant buy for me otherwise, but if you want to build a capable gaming machine I think that&#x27;s a real stretch.

Will the airflow &quot;work&quot; with all the gaps?

180mm, dual slot only gpu. That eliminates a bunch of gpus on the market. I guess they&#x27;re targeting this at not gamers that build pcs?

I know it’s way too expensive, and it is probably terrible at containing fan noise … yet … it kinda makes me want to own a desktop PCs.

What model is the squared screen from the photo?<p>It looks amazing!

That solid top panel looks like it&#x27;s almost fully obstructing airflow to a GPU cooler

I wonder how they&#x27;re manufacturing these. Fiber laser? Turret punch?

ummm, 195 bucks?<p>I can buy a pretty nice mini-itx cube shaped case on newegg for 80.

is there any open design chasis? like a CAD file you can modify yourself? if you&#x27;re living around shenzhen it&#x27;s probably not expensive to find a manufacturer

Would like to have the MDF version probably LOL

i sold my desktop pc recently and went with a mini pc (asrock deskmini x300). these mini pc are so powerful these days

They just continue to surprise.. Incredible talent and inspiration in that company! Makes me proud to be a Swede. :)

neat

That&#x27;s the worst monitor I&#x27;ve ever seen, about half way down the page. What&#x27;s up with that?