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Case suggestion : SMA5

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#1 ·
Just out of interrest.
Am i the only one who would love to have a SMA8 but just for a Matx mainboard ?
I´m a nutter for small compact cases.
I love what you did with the SMA8 and it´s dual chamber layout which is a feature you see not so often

Lets take a SMA8, and start to cut it down a bit in all dimensions.. just a little bit.
Keep the sidemounted drop in Radiator mounting, but just make it shorter, 3x120/3x140, should be about the lenght of the sm5#
Other side of the bottom chamber, a psu mount, a second drop in mount would be a nice touch to add a single/dual 120 rad depending on the size of the psu
Heightwhise I´d love to see a little reduction from 8 expansionslots to 5 , hence the name and a drop in mount for the same rads in the top as in the bottom chamber.
No special whishes, standard felxbay in the front, XL window for the upper chamber, lower chamber meshed, Option to get it in a propper inverted matx layout.
Moboside door, top part solid, lower part meshed again

As I´m running a WC´d SLi sys a matx board is mostly enought for me , but to get sufficient radiators in a case to keep the hardware cool and silent you need stupidly huge cases most of the time.

Anyone else ?
 
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#3 ·
It would be a cool case and I would love to have one personally, but it's very unlikely to happen for two reasons: (1) Almost every part would be unique to that case and we're currently in major inventory reduction mode, especially on items that sell in small numbers which this case would certainly fall into and (2) while the market accepts $600 ATX cases it has never been friendly to the idea of a $400+ mATX case, so sales would probably be more limited than the SM5 which was recently discontinued because of low production volume.
 
#5 ·
Thx for the input.
It´s probably the price gap between the S Series and a SMA8, which has a baseline of 520$ compared to a s8 with 360$.
Even the SM8 seems to be a bargain compared to the SMA8.
I totaly agree with you in terms of uniqe parts needed for a SMA5, it was the same on S3,S5, S8 but these are quite budget cases so they are easier accepted and sold.
 
#6 ·
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Originally Posted by saxovtsmike View Post

Thx for the input.
It´s probably the price gap between the S Series and a SMA8, which has a baseline of 520$ compared to a s8 with 360$.
Even the SM8 seems to be a bargain compared to the SMA8.
I totaly agree with you in terms of uniqe parts needed for a SMA5, it was the same on S3,S5, S8 but these are quite budget cases so they are easier accepted and sold.
I wouldn't consider any Caselabs case a budget case!
 
#9 ·
Made example of how I imagine of SMA5 would be, take SM5 as an example for SMA5, it'll need to be a little bigger than SM5 to fit a 240 radiator where power supply is. Probably the flex bays are good for now, tried fitting my 280 radiator flex bay, couldn't fit it but a 240 radiator flex bay would work. Again I am hoping for SMA5 to be available.




 
#10 ·
don´t throw salt in open wounds and stab me again and again all over..
Since the creation of this thread many things happened...
Sadly I bout a case (The oc.uk Caselabs clone which was manufactured by inwin, the 8.o.s.s ) which I have now standing in my office and some parts of myself refuse to work with it.
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It ticked most of the Boxes of my wish-feature-list, but sadly I´m not happy with it, I should have bought a caselabs... At least a S5.
 
#12 ·
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Originally Posted by FrancisJF View Post

Made example of how I imagine of SMA5 would be, take SM5 as an example for SMA5, it'll need to be a little bigger than SM5 to fit a 240 radiator where power supply is. Probably the flex bays are good for now, tried fitting my 280 radiator flex bay, couldn't fit it but a 240 radiator flex bay would work. Again I am hoping for SMA5 to be available.
To keep the global Dimensions as compact as possible I´d be pleased if the following features would be avaliable

Just 120 mm Based Fans / radiator mountings
360 next to the PSU in the basement, 60mm rad push/pull would need 110 mm width, PSU is about 90mm, so I´d guess 250mm width should be sufficient
120mm fan mount in the front (3xODD flexbay cover vented)
120mm radmount in the basement on the PSU side in the front, or a Pump bracket, no need to cramp it with a 240 or even make the case longer/deeper
Solid cover option between basement and top department
Sidepanels xxxxxl window on top, Basement Vented, Backside Solid with basement vented
Inverted Mainboard Orientation as option
Front Flexbays for a 240 rad and Aquaero ontop
Top 360 radmount 45mm radiator single row of Fans, optional 38m Vented top cover for push-pull layout.
 
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