Just to share my opinion (which is perfectly fine if you disagree):
It's an obvious clone of the Louqe Ghost S1.
This would be fine with me if there were some improvements.
Such improvements in my opinion would be:
- Weight reduction. Louqe S1 and this case weight exactly the same 2.5kg w/o hat, 3kg with L-tophat. That's too much if you're building it for portability (not just taking it from one room to the next, but to actually carry it in a backpack). Just for comparison Dan's A4 is 1.25kg which is about half the weight. And I expect Dan's C4 (which would be roughly equivalent to Louqe+L-topHat) to be between 1.5~1.8kg.
I just made the initial prototype of my custom frame/case, which uses 4 fans (2 slim 120mm Nuctuas on bottom for general case air-flow, and 2 high-pressure on top to push air thru 240mm aluminium radiator).
The current weight is just over 1kg (
) that's including the main-frame and the 4 fans (the 240 rad would add another 300gr; and I estimate about 200gr for the middle frame/plates to hold the internal parts). Size is 124x310x250mm
For mostly stationary use-case of course weight doesn't matter.
- to focus on water-cooling and limit the width of the case to 120~126mm (so that you can mount 240mm radiator on top). Of course that's a branch-off the air-cooler design since in 126mm wide case only the slimmest air-coolers can fit, and they won't be able to handle more powerful CPUs (and if they can't then one would better use laptop).
This case however copies Louqe's - trying to be more universal I guess (which is fare) but keeps the width at 142mm :/
And if water-cooling is already a focus, perhaps make it possible to attach L-hats on top and bottom for dual 240mm rads.
By rough calcs if you use rads like EK's FluidGaming (ie aluminium series for weight reduction) which are 28mm thick that gives 53mm for each pack of rad+fans - ie 106mm for both Top & Bottom. Plust 180mm height for the ITX Mobo it should be possible to fit it under 300mm height, also 300mm length and 125mm width (~11.2L the total volume of the case, not the fluid
)
So still quite back-packable (if weight is kept down by aluminium loop & reservoir is hooked only for filling/maintenance by quick-disconnect-fittings, but not kept inside the case... so still under 7.5kg).
This case however does none of these, which is ok - Louqe S1 is already great case, but then the only things to compete by would be price
It's an obvious clone of the Louqe Ghost S1.
This would be fine with me if there were some improvements.
Such improvements in my opinion would be:
- Weight reduction. Louqe S1 and this case weight exactly the same 2.5kg w/o hat, 3kg with L-tophat. That's too much if you're building it for portability (not just taking it from one room to the next, but to actually carry it in a backpack). Just for comparison Dan's A4 is 1.25kg which is about half the weight. And I expect Dan's C4 (which would be roughly equivalent to Louqe+L-topHat) to be between 1.5~1.8kg.
I just made the initial prototype of my custom frame/case, which uses 4 fans (2 slim 120mm Nuctuas on bottom for general case air-flow, and 2 high-pressure on top to push air thru 240mm aluminium radiator).
The current weight is just over 1kg (
For mostly stationary use-case of course weight doesn't matter.
- to focus on water-cooling and limit the width of the case to 120~126mm (so that you can mount 240mm radiator on top). Of course that's a branch-off the air-cooler design since in 126mm wide case only the slimmest air-coolers can fit, and they won't be able to handle more powerful CPUs (and if they can't then one would better use laptop).
This case however copies Louqe's - trying to be more universal I guess (which is fare) but keeps the width at 142mm :/
And if water-cooling is already a focus, perhaps make it possible to attach L-hats on top and bottom for dual 240mm rads.
By rough calcs if you use rads like EK's FluidGaming (ie aluminium series for weight reduction) which are 28mm thick that gives 53mm for each pack of rad+fans - ie 106mm for both Top & Bottom. Plust 180mm height for the ITX Mobo it should be possible to fit it under 300mm height, also 300mm length and 125mm width (~11.2L the total volume of the case, not the fluid
) So still quite back-packable (if weight is kept down by aluminium loop & reservoir is hooked only for filling/maintenance by quick-disconnect-fittings, but not kept inside the case... so still under 7.5kg).
This case however does none of these, which is ok - Louqe S1 is already great case, but then the only things to compete by would be price
