Hey there Rev.
Well the idea is a great one, to open up the possible GPUs that will fit.
But, I remember looking into it, and it requires changes to every major part of the case. The cover is longer and needs more vent area, so a whole new program on the punch press and the bender. Same is true for the chassis itself and the center divider. The model would need enough volume to run it as a stand-alone, maybe 200 cases.
So that's where things fall off the rails, lol.
Yeah...that's not worth it, and there is very little to gain with such a small increase as just a few more GPUs will be compatible, and it's still capped at 3060ti. That leads to the complicated question of just where is the line drawn on the GPU length. It's easy to get caught in the "just a little bit more" mindset. Do you go to 205mm for 3060ti or go 235mm for 3070? Do you even stay as a sandwich layout? Next thing you know you've accidentally redesigned the NCASE M1, A4-SFX, H200, or Meshalicious.
Then you have everything else; feature creep, size creep, time and effort, testing, production cost, shipping, and warranty.
As a product it’s starting over. As a thought experiment, well it could be interesting. So let’s leave it there and pretend for a moment.
At $300 a pop for 200 minimum that's a $60K minimum, plus a few extra for defects and shipping damage. I don't think you would hit that goal for a only a 200mm 3060ti expansion despite my initial enthusiasm. There is a lot of pent up demand for the MI-6, but the GPU market is ravaged. You simply can't get a GPU that fits it right now.
It would have to support the 3070 and at least the L12S for the CPU. So 240mm to give a little breathing room for the smallest RTX 3070 I know of (
Zotac "mini" 3070). It opens the door to a number of 2060s, 2060tis, 2070s, 3060s, 3060tis, and one 3070. Add 2 more mm to the length and you get a second page on New Egg of compatible cards. But every mm more the case looses its....spirit.
That would put the case at a depth of 256mm and a 26.1% increase in depth. CCD MI-256? CCD MI-6 XL?
That would probably get 200 orders over a few months, especially if the 120mm AIO top hat was still available. I'd buy 2. Then again I have a case collection or "problem" according to my wife.
It's certainly easier to wait until the 4000 series and hopeful stabilization of the GPU market though.
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But you have to do per-core curve optimization. There's a huge difference between how much undervolt each core can handle. My cores are at -21, -28, -28, -1, -28, -28.. So you see if I went all-core I might be limited to -1, because of one hungry core. All things said, you may gain a lot of those last 10-15% back (I think).
