Rev2 of the SFF club is now opened in the spirit of the original SFF club of 2004.

So post your Shuttles (whatever happened to all the shuttle folks these days) and others here.

To start it off, just came across this casing that's popping up all over the shops in Taipei. It's sold in Taipei under the J-power brand for less than RM200!!!!!! That's less than half the price of Silverstone's SUG01. Pretty damn good deal lor.

It fits a standard ATX psu and MATX board with a mobo tray!!!. With all the MOD (mobile on desktop) boards coming around in matx form factor...and the T-force crowd, I think this could be big.


After a lil googling, it seems that it's also known under a few different names, Aspire Q-pack and Ultra Microfly among them...

Could this be the future of SFF?

http://www.sfftech.com/index.php?/articles...icrofly_review/




Taiwan's version with side and top window



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Jul 4 2006, 10:37 AM

Awesome! I'd really want one. Couldnt even find Q-Pack here.

This post has been edited by jcheong: Jul 4 2006, 10:52 AM

waaa with transparent side panel

Voyeurmods even have a pre-installed water-cooled version of it!

http://www.voyeurmods.com/index.php?action...d=2&prevstart=0

nice casing but i dislike cube type of case, cause its just doesn't look good. they either try to imitate apple's design, or they just wanna shrink everything small.

btw, i notice that this casing is portable. noticable handle on the front panel

When SFF's first came out...especially the pretty Shuttles... many ppl were tempted including myself. But then the proprietory board hence lack of upgrades were the main turn-off.

But now we see so many interesting Matx boards out there...like the earlier mentioned T-force, the 945 speedsters and the conroe boards... and now with a casing like this..

Will this be the final blow to the immobile, space hogging tower casings?

Actually if any of u guys want I can bring in from Singapore for Rm250; its the same except the casing is silver in colour.

i think this is more on the Lan party side, minus the good looks to show off and minus multiple drives unless you install a massive hard drive into it. This casing is more geared towards gamers joining tourney or lan party

These case with tight compartment, most likely suffers heat issue. todays hardcore pc components are so hot, they can cook an egg

btw, what is the display at the front of the casing

Sniper on the roof - good to have another SFF Thread. I have given up on regular ATX casings....

J-power nice casing and very similar to the Aspire Q-pack. Been looking for the Aspire Q-pack but not available in M'sia or S'pore. Won't be surpised if the J-power manufacturer is the OEM manufacturer for Aspire Q-pack. I would love to get my hands on it - any chance of bulk order??? If yes, put me down for 1 unit although I wont be upgrading my System for another 1.0 - 1.5 yrs (UT2007!!!) :-)

I like this box better than the regular SFFs like my Biostar IDEQ 200N as space is a premium and airflow is not good at all without modding. My IDEQ fried my Ti4200 graphic card within 3 months after I upgraded to IDEQ 200N from my Coolermaster casing. After I changed to Ati 9800SE o/c to 9800Pro, I have modified my IDEQ casing for added cooling. Had my IDEQ 200N since 2004.

The only problem with the J-Power/Aspire Q-pack is that there are limited motherboards on M-ATX form factor available in M'sia that supports overclocking features. Aspire Q-packs are quite popular in Europe and US market as their market supports M-ATX mobos......

Or for those student folks that needs occasional mobility.

ps: that's a temp display up front.




Looking at the temps on the shootout link below, seems pretty decent leh.
http://www.sfftech.com/index.php?/articles/show/730/1

its look nice indeed and some room for uprade.....when its will come to
malaysia shore ?

This post has been edited by LoneWolfTNT: Jul 4 2006, 12:11 PM

hrm...nowaydays everyone would take either mini (SFF) or extra large (full server) but i think it all goes for design and purpose.

who wouldn't want a SFF media center and a full tower media server in the house??

Look up... got one forumer can bring in from Singapore wat.

And check this out....some fella sumbat in a lanparty...hahahahaha

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=...16&page=4&pp=20

ahhahahaha one forumer can even bring in the silverstones, if you ask him very nicely

too bad those can only support mini ATX, there is not much support from manufacturers in the high-performance mini-atx arena, with shuttle the only one supporting SLI in ther SFF. >.< after my ideq incident, unless there is a high performance, well-designed system from other manufacturers, i guess shuttle will only release its enthusiast SFFs next year -_________-

My dear noob killa..... that micro ATX lar.

That's the interesting part (though it makes the case look fat). Due to the HTPC push, there's more and more MATX mobos in the market now...with even more coming soon.

err im referring to SFF cases in general, like the Aopen gaming cube, MATX.

dont know bout micro ATX boards though, but PSU shopping can be a biatch in malaysia if you're looking into microatx cases :headache:

Dood...they all use normal ATX psu di..hence the bigger size.

The way I look at it, the only downside for cases like these is the comparitive airflow vs a tower and the lack of HDD bays (though a theoratical 3 bays are enough for most folks).

So....would you get one?

ps: Aopen gaming cube's b1tch fugly.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Jul 5 2006, 09:01 AM

I'd get a SN27P2 for my AM2 move.

But it'd be a shame to dump some fairly new parts like a Liberty and also a PC-61 that's been modded for silence.
I'm not too bothered by lack of expandability since I don't forsee myself needing a big change after this and I'm the kind of person who uses a single HDD (in the intents of lower noise and heat emissions) anyway. Hell it might even be cheaper if I could get a decent price for all the stuff I'd sell compared to if I just went out and bought a freakin expensive M2N32-SLI.

Darn nick dood... ONE HDD???? Is that even legal?

you should wait till someone mod these type of casing turning it acrylic with silver tinted. thats hot. add up a blue ccfl, i'll look like one modd i saw few years ago