So, looking some videos on this year computex there was some cases from mainstream brands (namely cooler master and inwin) that, sure itx, but had a ton of wasted space, so why does this happens?
Why mainstream sff is so big?
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You need a certain sales volume to justify the cost of development and tooling on a new product, and SFF is a niche that doesn't achieve high sales volume naturally. As a consequence, you need to do everything you can to maximize the market reach of a product, which means greater compatibility among other things. If someone doesn't buy your case because it won't fit the ATX PSU you already have, or the CPU cooler, or the GPU, then that's one lost sale that you could've had if it did.
This is also one reason the boutique cases are more expensive, on average: since the sales volume isn't there, high volume manufacturing techniques like die stamping don't make economic sense, and more expensive and labor intensive methods must be used instead.
This is also one reason the boutique cases are more expensive, on average: since the sales volume isn't there, high volume manufacturing techniques like die stamping don't make economic sense, and more expensive and labor intensive methods must be used instead.
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But it isnt like there are no space optimized mainstream cases like the cougar qbx and the inwin a20 not to mention silverstone cases which shows that are ways to improve compatibility without compromising that much (relatively) on space
sg13s are cheap as hell, and the quality is not so good though the design is quite efficient.
I think it was a rep from Streacom that said it, but I can't find the exact quote. The jist of it is that the more compatible the case is, the more it sells. The less compatible, the less it sells.
As big businesses, they want to maximise sales across every product they launch so naturally, they're gonna be on the bigger side.
As big businesses, they want to maximise sales across every product they launch so naturally, they're gonna be on the bigger side.
