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Gemcases Launches the C9 – A M-ITX Chassis Up For Preorder

This is a SFF Network Vendor product launch – a feature we offer to subscribed Vendors that love our community. At SFF Network, we support those who support us, growing the world of Small Form Factor!

 

About us

Hello world!

We want to introduce our small company for the SFF community, we have named our brand Gemcases – to highlight that there is something special in our cases, a word Gem symbols piece of the soul that we put into created products.

Today our company consists of three people: an engineer, a chief engineer and a designer. Our chief engineer is a PC user with over 25 years of experience (hello Win98) and throughout his life he has been in tight contact with the PC as of studying, improving, and helping others build their own PC. Also, due to the necessity of his main job, he has been professionally working in CAD programs, working with metal and wood for over than 8 years, so he can truly apply his knowledge in creating new cases for PCs.

 

About Gemcase C9

We want to introduce our first SFF PC case named the Gemcase C9.

This is a mini ITX PC case with external volume ~4.4L. The case is designed as a full-fledged computer (internal PSU and GPU) for use both as of workstations or gaming. It features space for Mini ITX mobo, GPU – low profile two slot, Flex ATX PSU, two full sized 92mm case fans helping to draw cold air into the case to maintain a more stable temperature while creating minimal noise. Also, our case features the ability to be installed horizontally (HTPC like) and vertically (PC like – usual). For convenience, there is a power button on the front panel and USB 3.2 type C connector.

 


Technical characteristics:
Size(Height x Depth x Width): 210mm(8,27″) x 208mm(8,2″) x 101mm(4″)
Weight: 0,6kg
Motherboard: mini ITX (incompatible ASUS ROG STRIX B660, B760)
CPU cooler clearance: 41mm (highly recommended height 37mm)
DDR clearance: 46mm
Graphic card: low profile(Width 70mm), two slot(Height 40mm), Length 182mm(Gigabyte GeForce RTX4060 Low Profile, RTX A4000 SFF, RTX A2000, GTX1650, GTX1050ti, RX6400)
Storage: only NVME SSD
Power supply: Flex ATX
Case fans: 2x 92x25mm(top placement – exhaust)
Materials: steel, front panel – real wood with oil coating
Package content: Case, power button, front USB 3.2 Gen2 Type C, screws, rubber feet, riser gen3/gen4 – by request.

P.S.: Later we will introduce extended list of auxiliary equipment for cases, including custom shortened cables for the power supply.

 

Gemcases C9 already on preorder!

For details, please read our thread here: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/gemcases-c9-4-4l-density-and-%D1%81oolness-preorder-started.18844/

Special preorder price is 130€(140$) 

 

To the community

As far as we know, there have already been several pre-orders on the forum, which did not end very well. We understand this and realize that not everyone is ready to take risks with a pre-order, but first of all, we created a pre-order because we want the cases to reach its happy owners as quickly as possible. For our part, we guarantee good faith and that we are not going to disappear anywhere, for us this is just the beginning and we already have ideas for two PC case designs that we eagerly want to implement :)

We just started we need support and feedback from those who interested in our case or products. Please contact us in a way you like.

 

This is a SFF Network Vendor product launch – a feature we offer to subscribed Vendors that love our community. At SFF Network, we support those who support us, growing the world of Small Form Factor!
 
About us
Hello world!
We want to introduce our small company for the SFF community, we have named our brand Gemcases – to highlight that there is something special in our cases, a word Gem symbols piece of the soul that we put into created products.
Today our company consists of three people: an engineer, a chief engineer and a designer. Our chief engineer is a PC user with over 25 years of experience (hello Win98) and throughout his life he has been in tight contact with the PC as of studying, improving, and helping others build their own PC. Also, due to the necessity of his main job, he has been professionally working in CAD programs, working with metal and wood for over than 8 years, so he can truly apply his knowledge in creating new cases for PCs.
 
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Gingerbeer

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Sep 6, 2019
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just scale it to accommodate P1 and get rid of these pesky fans
I've had several whole PCs smaller than a P1 alone, so I'm not sure that requirement really fits the SFF philosophy. This isn't a dig - I get the whole quest for silence thing, but the trade-off is usually chassis size.
 

zakius

Chassis Packer
Apr 20, 2017
13
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I've had several whole PCs smaller than a P1 alone, so I'm not sure that requirement really fits the SFF philosophy. This isn't a dig - I get the whole quest for silence thing, but the trade-off is usually chassis size.
there's a huge issue with mITX cases availability, you either get a "laptop" form factor, with the same footprint and noisy cooling or mATX case unable to accommodate mATX motherboards due to weird internal structure
with pico-PSU and mITX board you can squeeze P1 into much less than 20x20x20cm and if you put a KalmX in it in around 25x25x20cm, though that would be a lot of heat to take care of, but with a case as open as this one it would probably still work just fine, that's what I'd love to get

surely that doesn't get the volume as low as many of popular small cases do, but the footprint isn't big and you don't sacrifice the acoustics, especially when compared to LC based builds that simply never get quiet
 

GEMCASES

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GEMCASES
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Jul 23, 2023
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just scale it to accommodate P1 and get rid of these pesky fans
Depending on your needs and tasks, there is no one clear solution.
Our build task is gaming PC with medium workstation load and it is very quite, coolers can be heard only in 10cm from case. Even under very heavy load(CPU burner+Furmark) there is just some regular mild noise coming from PC.
We have:
CPU i3-13100
DDR4 16gb 3200
GPU RTX A2000
You can't say definitely small CPU cooler is bad this only means that such config not suitable for you.
P.S.: You can PM me at Discord: Gemcases and we can discuss further steps in creating custom case just for you.
 

zakius

Chassis Packer
Apr 20, 2017
13
3
Depending on your needs and tasks, there is no one clear solution.
Our build task is gaming PC with medium workstation load and it is very quite, coolers can be heard only in 10cm from case. Even under very heavy load(CPU burner+Furmark) there is just some regular mild noise coming from PC.
We have:
CPU i3-13100
DDR4 16gb 3200
GPU RTX A2000
You can't say definitely small CPU cooler is bad this only means that such config not suitable for you.
P.S.: You can PM me at Discord: Gemcases and we can discuss further steps in creating custom case just for you.
my goal is a build I will never be able to hear, even under full load, even during summer heat waves
and even A12x25 inside a case under my desk starts to annoy me at around 650RPM so there's really not a lot of space for enforced airflow, it surely can be used to improve the cooling a tiny bit but I'd rather use it as a last resort for these heatwaves than rely on it daily
currently I'm running 7950X with 90W PPT and substantial CO, but I don't remember these numbers with A2000 cooled with Accelero S3, I'm still figuring some things out like reducing airflow restrictions in the case and looking for a smaller PSU as full ATX literally doesn't fit but it works pretty well for now
in general that's a build I'm likely keeping for a while, but I may want to move to 4000 Ada SFF in the future, but not just yet, I'll let people figure out the cooling again and hope the price drops to a more reasonable level in the meantime
 
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MatiMike

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May 2, 2023
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Depending on your needs and tasks, there is no one clear solution.
Our build task is gaming PC with medium workstation load and it is very quite, coolers can be heard only in 10cm from case. Even under very heavy load(CPU burner+Furmark) there is just some regular mild noise coming from PC.
We have:
CPU i3-13100
DDR4 16gb 3200
GPU RTX A2000
You can't say definitely small CPU cooler is bad this only means that such config not suitable for you.
P.S.: You can PM me at Discord: Gemcases and we can discuss further steps in creating custom case just for you.
I wanted to ask is it possible to fit the HD plex GAN 250W powersupply in the case or not. Thank you
 
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GEMCASES

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GEMCASES
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Jul 23, 2023
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i think the outward resemblance of the case to a densium 4 might give forum members ptsd...
As we can see by replies only few compare our case with densium. The similarity ends with the fact that these are both SFF cases - another layout, another footprint, another appearance.
 

GEMCASES

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GEMCASES
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Jul 23, 2023
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Hello, sorry man. Cases are sold out. We will start production of the second batch as soon as possible.
 
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