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spoiler alert the Dan case a for SFX is a fabulous little enclosure linus recently used it in this video and he liked it a lot but since he apparently couldn't be arsed to give any real information about it i promptly stole it from him for a proper review like the anti-hero that i and while I was still intoxicated by the thrill of the heist I noticed a couple reasons Linus may have liked this case not only did Dan and Linus demonstrate a shocking like-mindedness by both naming their companies after their first names but this case is tiny something that Linus must be able to emphasize with oh okay now before I get fired let's roll the intro Tunnel Bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet to try tunnel bear for free check out the link in the video description with a quick glance at the a for SFX you may be inclined to think of Lian Li and that isn't that surprising as Dan's om for this project is in fact Lian Li an expensive choice but one that comes with stellar build quality and quality materials throughout the case as we go through our overview just so you know starting with the front of the case we have a reserved aesthetic with only two things breaking through the solid brushed aluminum panel a USB 3.0 plug and a power button which is unfortunately wobbly and does not feature a tactile click but does manage to suit the case perfectly and almost fade away into the rest of the panel one important thing to note here is that there is no illumination of any kind built into this case and as someone who is building a computer this small may also be interested in quiet computing I may recommend getting an LED strip of some sort like the cable mod setup Linus had in this build in order to show some form of sign that your computer is even on both of the side panels are more or less identical featuring very large circular mesh areas so that your graphics card on the left-hand side and your CPU cooler and power supply on the right-hand side can all breathe easily these side panels are both held on by a pair of screws on the bottom and Leon Lee's ball and socket pressure mounts which are so stiff that if you are so inclined you could ignore the screws altogether with confidence that your side panels are secure that's actually pretty cool the top of the case also features a large circular mesh area and some screws that need to be undone along with a couple on the bottom in order to remove the top and front panels as one solid piece of metal the bottom of the case features some sort of styled air holes and is a really weird SSD mounting system that has easy to remove tool this rubber mounts but then due to how they're positioned and how the slots are positioned you still have to unscrew two of them in order to slide it out it's not that bad and it's probably done this way just to make sure that it's secure but it probably would have been just fine to leave them in the other orientation so you just slide it out easily oh well not a big deal there's also four feet they're not very grippy and they don't really stick to anything very well but they're effective enough while leaving only a little to be desired at the back is not much of note other than the first really good look at the scale of the a4 SFX you can't quite appreciate it until you have seen something like a known quantity like a standard motherboard IO panel Linus wasn't really a fan of this gap thing above the expansion card slot here and while I didn't really mind it personally I do see his point that covering this with a little shroud or something may have added some polish now the specifications of this case are rather important and that's what I'm going to focus on now that we've covered the outside of the case for a graphics card it can accommodate a max height of 144 millimeters from the bottom of the PCIe slot to the top of the card a max width of 40 millimeters without a backplate or 45 with one a max length of 306 millimeters with the bracket or 295 without now that may sound scary and confining but it's really not that bad as I was able to squeeze in an EVGA 1080 classified a massive card without issue and at least part of the no issues with this build is thanks to the clear plastic shield that Dan included to protect the back of your potentially not backplate equipped GPU from the metal internals of the case a good touch that will assuredly save someone from some amount of headache and motherboard compatibility is amazing in its unremarkable 'ti to explain the damn case is only slightly larger than the zotac magnus n 980 that we reviewed here but instead of a proprietary motherboard to go with its MXM form-factor graphics card you can use standard i TX as long as you note the max height of 48 millimeters and 52 millimeters for the CPU cooler and memory respectively for power supply you can choose either SFX or the slightly longer s Excel form factor although it should be noted that while you'll gain a usually quieter 120-millimeter fan you'll be restricting yourself from three potential to two potential two and a half inch drives with that being said I'd probably stick with the front mount and the lower tray mount and leave the upper tray mounted SSD out of the picture regardless just for cable management reasons the Dan case a for SFX is beautiful efficient and actually rather fun to build in that being said I did find myself getting frustrated on a number of occasions while working in it but they weren't frustrations with this particular build I was frustrated by other cases for example while installing the GPU which even with something like an oversize classified was really easy logical and straightforward I marveled that something like the mid Tower sized anodized AI crystal could cause problems for me when the Dan was able to find a elegant solution to cram into his mere seven and a quarter liter of total volume space case what now speaking of graphics card Dan recommends a blower style GPU and I would second that but I also want to note that even with my a VGA 1080 classified installed it did get hot but it didn't throttle it may not have boosted as high as it could have been a different case with better airflow but it was fine on the CPU side of things the cooler is going to be pretty damn similar to any other cooler that would fit in this case there is no substitute for surface area and a little bit of mass because physics so these results should be pretty representative of what you'll get with a quad core and so on now this was a crowdfunded project and as such I've heard tales of shipping issues but on the product side of things at least great work din and I hope to see more from you in the future Kouji roll is a site created by anime fans for anime fans and they offer the most current episodes of new shows straight from Japan like reezy row or even orange they have a large collection of the most popular anime series like Naruto 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