CES 2010: Silverstone's Sugo SG07 Mini-ITX Case Fits a 5970!
CES 2010: Silverstone's Sugo SG07 Mini-ITX Case Fits a 5970!
Posted 01/11/2010 at 6:30pm
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Talk about a tight fit. Silverstone was at CES to show off their new line of cases (including the highly-anticipated Fortress 2 mid-tower case), but what caught our eye was their Sugo SG07 mini-ITX case. Last year's SG06 was a respectable gaming chassis, but didn't account for the massive videocards that came out in the second half of the year. The new model is built with those cards in mind, and as you can see from the photo below, snuggly houses a 12.6-inch Radeon 5970 videocard!
The SG07 also comes bundled with a Silverstone custom single-rail 600W power supply to provide ample power to a single-GPU system, and has a beefy 180mm fan on top. There's also a specially-designed ventilation area that's sectioned off on the base of the machine to funnel hot air away from the videocard without heating up the entire chassis.
But does it make sense to put the world's fastest videocard into a mini-ITX system? With a new batch of P55 mini-ITX motherboards just coming out, the answer is yes. In fact, the rig that Silverstone had set up included a DFI LANParty MI P55 motherboard and Intel Core i7 860 CPU. And from the photo below, you can tell that the case is tall enough for a sizable CPU heatsink.
The only thing that seemed to be missing was a handle at the top of the case for easy portability, but Silverstone's rep told us any handles mounted on top would warp the relatively thin aluminum casing. A GearGrip-style case carrying harness will have to do for now.
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ethanajs
January 13, 2010 at 4:49pm
it's not all that it's cracked up to be. when i recently purchased a new PC i planned on making a lanbox small form factor setup with some serious power; radeon 5870 core i7 6gb ddr, 60gb ssd, 1.5tb hdd, striker 7.1 audio card, bluray drive, 700w modular power supply and a lanbox lite case.
everything fit just fine but i will admit to putting the 1.5tb drive in the second cd drive slot because i had to take out the hard drive bays because the radeon5870 was too long. the SSD fit just fine in the third hard drive slot they provided, which is on the left side of the case out of the way of everything. everything was snug and fit just fine and temperatures were fine, but it was a real pain in the ass when i had to troubleshoot hardware, taking almost 3x as long to get to parts. so after admitting it wasnt as cool as i had planned, i bought a HAF 932 like i had originally planned
basicly if you dont wanna read all that crap, this is very doable but be prepared for a tight fitting setup and be sure to make accomodations, such as mounting a hdd onto a cd drive slot. oh and have fun phsyically getting to your hardware too lol.
Mayhemm
January 12, 2010 at 2:01am
What I want to know is how the heck they assembled that thing! Does the entire case come apart? Do they have child's hands? I can barely work with a mid-tower!
CloudRider
January 12, 2010 at 1:51am
A setup like this would be perfectly paired with the new 45W TDP chips that AMD is putting out. A 2.3 GHz quad-core would be plenty enough horsepower to drive the 5970 for most games, and the added bonus of negligible CPU heat output.
triclops41
January 11, 2010 at 11:08pm
i guess my "giant" micro-atx case needs to go. i will have to get the dfi mini tix p55 board, this case, and move my i7 860 and my 5850 into this baby. wonder how this accomodates 3.5 and 2.5 drives.
Syanpse
January 11, 2010 at 8:07pm
Crap bio they beat us to it.... anyway this looks awesome accept that i cant fit my megahalems in it :(
thematejka
January 11, 2010 at 5:51pm
you can't watercool but it looks awesome. I would use it over any case if I didn't want to liquid cool.
Spartacus
January 11, 2010 at 5:43pm
There are Mini-ITX P55 boards out there. Pairing an i5 750 with a 5870 or 5970 in a shoebox case would make a kickass LAN box for those who have the spare cash.
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