It's finally ready to be crowdfunded:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/33753221/dan-cases-a4-sfx-the-worlds-smallest-gaming-tower/description
>>54802950
thinking about buying one, if i don't like it I can flip it with quite a markup
>>54802950
>230 euro for 1.3kg of aluminum
People are truly retarded
>$330 CDN for a mini-ITX case
fuck this shit
>>54802950
>yfw the pci-e riser card is 1/3 of the pricetag
this fucking guy
>>54802950
TOASTY TEMPS
LOTS OF HEAT
toasty temps and there's lots of heat
the silverstone SG13 is $40 and supports a full-sized PSU and GPU
Haha what the fuck, $250 for this thing? My FT02 was less than that and the materials in it could make 5 of these. Even my ML08 was like $80.
>>54803485
I looked up the price of the riser card he used and it costs over $80, or 1/3 of the price (converted to USD), so believe it or not his claim is actually legit.
This leaves $170 for the case, and seeing as it's Lian-Li, it would probably be around $90 from them. This leaves him to earn $80 per case, but there is also shipping costs and 18% VAT to consider, so he's probably only making $50 off each unit.
Not that lucrative of a markup IMO.
>>54803623
Oh, and I forgot about the cut Shitstarter take for themselves, as well as PayPal or whatever system he's using. He'll be lucky to make $50,000 if he sells out, which isn't a lot of money for the amount of time and effort needed to design and market a product.
why the fuck would I want a case named "dan"
>>54803686
Who gives a fuck? Most cases are called shit like Black Phantom Storm Obliterater XXL and no one bats an eye.
>>54803623
It's 250 euro with shipping.
And you don't have to use the 3m riser, there are cheaper ones that also work just as good(not the really cheap shit)
>not waiting for this
http://zaber.com.pl/sentry/
>>54802950
>it's small
>it barely uses as much components as a fractal define r5 for $90
>"ok, let's make it $230 guys"
>230€
HahahahahahahHBababBBbBBBHahaahhaahah
Low volume manufacturing is expensive.
>>54803269
this
I learned to weld and bought a fucking welder for the price of these insane cases and make my own now. even though they're ugly at least they're better htan these pieces of shit
>>54804368
Indeed, I'm surprised they've settled on only 1500 units, as almost half of the cases have already been reserved.
Get a hadron, nigga
>>54803686
How autistic do you have to be to care about the name of a case?
>>54804424
bad business plan
the idiot should have aimed for more
Wait is this that case someone posted here and asked how we wanted it designed?
(He kept using wood-texture in the pictures)
>>54804368
welp.
i'll wait till 2017 for a full fleshed amd mitx pc.
maybe then some company adopts their blueprints and we get one for half the price
>>54804378
>welding aluminum
Unless you've got a good gas metal arc welder (not cheap) I doubt you could do a good job
jesus christ Dan
>>54804378
Unless you have years of experience on welding aluminum, it's going to look like shit.
Muh
dick
>>54803188
>if i don't like it I can flip it with quite a markup
I was thinking about that too but are people really willing to pay that much more? Seems ridiculously expensive as it is and given they made the goal there's going to be more made.
>>54803623
>I looked up the price of the riser card he used and it costs over $80
That's if you buy one. If you buy in bulk like he's doing it's closer to $50
Honestly I just don't see this being worth it for the price over the Ncase or if you really want something smaller I'd just wait for builds like pic related to be more feasible. I mean technically it already is, this build is running a 4670k and a 970 but you won't get any OC out of it and flagships like the 1080 are out of the question.
>>54805526
yeah, but keep in mind if it enters mass production it's going to be months after the kickstarter backers receive theirs. You could definitely get some cash out of impatient idiots who missed the kickstarter
>>54805677
The Kickstarter also isn't shipping to a bunch of countries.
>>54804633
very possibly yes, it's a german multiple forum lurker. wouldn't wonder me if he also went to /g/?
>B-but muh fractal design
>>54805766
>>54804633
Someone from the Ncase team also posts here from time to time.
So how long before Jonsbo makes a clone for 1/4th the price
>>54803938
Imo, the a4 sfx looks better than this, I could just get a rvz02 if I wanted something similar to this
>>54805955
What are these locks called, and how do they work?
I'm actually designing a case for an eGPU and these look interesting to experiment with.
>>54805957
RVZ02 is almost twice the size
>>54806057
liaan li
>>54806057
Apparently Lian Li calls them jointers
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pt-jt03/
>>54806057
Newegg description says hinge pin. It just pops in. Feels so good too. Makes you wonder why you ever bothered with screws for side panels.
Have them on my Ncase and Lian Li Q25b
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112339
>single USB port
Fuck off
>>54802950
The Cerberus by Kimera looks way better than this shit. Pic related.
Same with the Ncase m1 or whatever it's called.
>>54806332
>suitcase pc
>>54806336
The newer model doesn't have the handle
>>54802950
>gaming tower
>fits literally jack shit
It really fucking isn't. Are redditors this gullible?
The fractal node 202 also has a reiser card thing and still only costs 1/3 of that...
>>54806332
$56k after 30 days and the Dan A4 is almost 230k in just hours. What went wrong?
>>54806354
The handle was always optional. You had to pay an extra $60 or whatever for it.
>>54806413
>US made
the people backing these are all trannies and cucks from reddit, they hate america and want it to fail.
China is communist paradise, reddit is all about that shit.
>>54806413
Honestly I have no idea. The Kimera straight up looks better and seems like it has more configuration options. Micro atx is much better than mini itx too.
Maybe it's just luck or the creators weren't redditors.
Wtf for $200+ you can get case+psu.....
>>54806477
Lian Li is Taiwanese, not shitty main land. Also where the hell do you think your components are made?
ftz01 also uses a raiser and an all aluminum body yet they can offer it for ~$100.
>>54806497
>chinese japanese taiwanese
fucking weaboo no one gives a fuck about your fetish waifu rice monkeys
one was going to be made in the us and the other in ding dong land. go back to rebbit and tell them about how much you love sucking cock and masturbating to anime girls in the cuckshed
jesus fucking kriste
>>54806497
>Taiwanese
So Chinese.
>>54806504
Flat cases are a design which require a simple right-angle adapter, since it doesn't matter which way the GPU exhaust is facing. In the Dan case the GPU and CPU need to face the vents on either side, so the riser is actually a fairly long group of ribbon cables. You can't really afford to go too cheap with this extension, or run the risk of interfering with data transfer in some way.
>>54806413
>>54806477
>>54806484
>failings of the 4chan psychology in action
>>54803623
Actually he's making us pay Shipping.
I just Ordered one.
The thing I can justify is waiting until December to get one.
That would mean buying another case in the meantime for me, so I may as well just get another case I am happy with.
>>54807063
For me, this is the beginning of a long project. First the case, then the Power Supply, then the SSD(s), then the graphics card, then hopefully, Zen, and so on ...
I've already got a 980 Ti/4790k entire build. This will be the beginning of my 2018 Build.
>>54803584
I don't think that's a picture of a SG13
>>54808270
You're right, it's the SG10.
Is this a joke?
>can't fit a 3.5 HDD
had me until I noticed this.
>>54808444
What do you need a 3.5" HDD for? There are 2TB SSDs and it can hold 3 of them.
I'm sorry, poorfags shouldn't be even looking at mITX.
>backups
Set up a NAS and stick it in a closet.
>>54808421
Transparent af
>>54808581
>2TB SSD
No thanks. Rather use a HDD for that much storage.
>>54808608
>>54808581
There are 2TB laptop HDD and even 4TB laptop HDD.
>>54808608
What're you gonna do when they stop selling HDDs in 5 years bucko?
>>54808636
This is also very true.
>>54808636
I already have my mITX set up, but I have a 3.5 for it.
>>54808608
Not him but there's cheap Samsung 2TB drives. You just have to break one of these open. Go on sale for $60-$70 sometimes.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Storage-STDR2000100/dp/B00FRHTSK4
I have like 10 of them. Two of them in my Ncase with a 1TB SSD. If you need 7200rpm then Hitachi makes some good ones in 1TB.
>>54808655
>stop
Nigga, they still make and develop tape storage.
>>54808636
Laptop HDDs are slow as shit tho.
>>54808711
Anything that needs to be run fast can be put on the SSD. If the HDD is used for video and music only, you can't tell the difference if they run at 50MB/s or 150MB/s.
>>54808751
You can tell by the access times tho.
>>54808775
Access times are only apparent when randomly accessing many small files, not sequentially accessing large files like videos and music.
>>54808797
>randomly accessing many small files, not sequentially accessing large files like videos and music.
music is many small files
you might get lucky and have an entire album/playlist 100% contiguous on the drive
but you might get unlucky and be seeking across 10,000 different 2-3mb files for each track
>>54802950
Trash
It says on kickstarter that dan case supports 980ti. What about 1080? I havent been following latest nvidia/amd cuckery, has the specs (and dimensions) been released for 1080?
Guys don't buy this. The CPU cooler you can fit is not powerful enough for any kind of OC.
>>54808952
Reference cards are rarely a problem for most cases, and that's true here as well. Here's a compatibility list for non-reference cards though: https://hardforum.com/threads/dan-a4-sfx-the-smallest-gaming-case-in-the-world.1799326/page-120#post-1042319540
>>54808971
You don't buy a 7 liter case for overclocking.
>>54809048
Wanna bet the majority of the builds with this case will be with K processors?
>>54809094
That's entirely possible. They'll be in for a rude awakening if they try to push the thermal limits in this case, though.
>>54809094
They'll be in for a rude awakening. That case is fit for S or T CPUs.
>>54809158
>fit for S or T CPUs.
>marketed as a gaming case
I dont even game, if campaign is successful Ill probably sell it on ebay
>>54809184
Seriously though it reminds me of this case
And the consensus was that there wasn't enough airflow for top of the line parts, which in turn was because it was too cramped.
Gaming doesn't exactly have to mean "best of everything" though. You can play games with settings cranked all the way on a 4690S and a GTX1070.
Honestly though IMO, having tiny ITX cases is just a meme. There's no need for it, you pay a premium for ITX motherboards, and you also pay more to work around the confined space. I do say "tiny" ITX cases though, there are bigger ITX cases like the Enthoo where you don't really make huge sacrifices.
>>54809094
I bought a 6700k and I'm going to use this case. But I know over clocking will never be an option or plausible. But their is the Cryorig C7, a CPU cooler that this case supports and can cool up to a CPU with a 100TDP at stable temps with full load.
>>54809449
What I'm saying is, a normal stock speed 6700k will work with this case if you get that cooler and maybe underclock it if needed to. It'll be funny seeing the idiots who think they can do it though.
>>54809449
Be careful with that. That probably assumes no restriction on the fan's intake, but in the A4 it will be right up against the side panel vent holes. The C7 uses a slim fan, and those don't have the static pressure of a full thickness fan, so it's going to be even more impacted by restriction. Throw fan filters into the equation and you can pretty much forget about it performing well.
>>54809297
I like my cooler master 130, tho i want something shorter.
>>54808697
Oh yeah? Can just run down to microcenter and buy me some I guess.
Faggot.
>>54806332
>what is airflow
>>54806625
as seen here, the case is unrivalved (for the moment)
But christ man.. 400 AUD for a fucking compact case and riser.. thats the price of a new gtx 980 nowdays
>>54803584
I have one. Its pretty cool. You can also put a H60/80 in it with a full sized GPU.
>>54809297
been buying itx since 2010, everytime i see my pc fills me with joy. If i woke up to a 50L tower case i would feel like a 8 year old when hes mummy bought him a ultra rad gaming hot wheels machine for hes birthday
Yeah... no. I'd totally just buy whatever mini fractal design case for $100 instead.
Thinking about getting this case with an A10-7860k and a Noctua NH-L9A. Thoughts? Would I have clearance issues?
Can anyone recommend alternative that aren't retard pricing?
>>54811065
forwhatpurpose
>>54811152
>retarded pricing
its kind of a collectors item, man...
>>54811221
It's a plain as fuck Lian Li case named after a eurocuck. The fuck is collectable about it? There's just going to be a better smaller design in a few years when everything is R9 Nano sized and PSUs will be in an even smaller form factor.
>>54802950
What took this idiot like 4 fucking years or whatever just to make some fucking case?
>>54811152
>>54811221
It's not really collector's priced. It's just a rather low-volume custom manufactured item. Of course it'll be pricey.
Feel free to shop around and get someone to make you a case of your own that small. It'll be a few times that price.
Also, the whole point of the case is that there is no alternative. If there was, why would these people bother making it?
You're just not going to get a case that small that fits a full sized video card.
>>54811417
>What took this idiot like 4 fucking years or whatever just to make some fucking case?
Like the NCase, it very likely wasn't this guy's primary job. He and his cohorts were probably just doing this as a hobby or a side job.
Just because your mommy supports your NEET lifestyle doesn't mean everyone is free to sit around and do whatever they want 24/7.
>>54811568
>projecting this hard
maybe if you weren't shitposting the chans instead of getting shit done you'd have your shitty case out by now, dan
>>54811584
>some guy designing and getting manufacturing for a custom case as a side job taking too long for /g/ basement dwellers
vs
>basement dwellers shitposting complaining about other people not getting shit done on their timeframe
You're like all those people sending death threats to the developer's of No Man's Sky for delaying a child's game.
What a wonderful time to be alive, where civilization is so advanced that a useless sack of shit like yourself can survive.
>>54811534
I don't need it to be that small just small
>>54811677
>>54805955
whats this case? its not on jonsbo site
>>54811699
Jonsbo U2
I wanna get an Ncase M1 for use with a new bristol ridge APU build that I'm going to throw in my garage as a streaming box/3D printer controller/openCNC controller. I just cant justify the cost.
>>54808971
I'm not saying they're *good* temps, but the C7 in my Ncase on my 3570k @ 4.1 (~1.2v) topped out at 75C.
>>54813684
See >>54809666. You can't draw a direct comparison, since the intake on the Dan A4 will be more restrictive.
>>54811221
<forwhatpurpose
Cheap small HTPC that can game at 720 and encode plex stuff if needed. Is this a bad idea?
Didn't Dan put a bunch of benches on HardForum? Should give you an idea of temps.
>>54806413
Just marketing.
It has a Pepsi can and no meme fans. It is blue and red so not appealing colors.
>>54809297
It's not a meme it means we don't need gaming laptops for portability.
>>54802950
I'll wait for ChadCase
Good budget itx case?
I love the look of the sg13....
