News - Silverstone Grandia GD09 and GD10 HTPC chassis to ship soon

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These HTPC cases can fit an ATX motherboard and a graphics card up to 310mm in length.

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Very tasty! When it talks about PSU, is it a full sized ATX PSU with length restrictions or is one of the smaller SFX/TFX units?

180mm would support a full sized ATX PSU, yeah. It probably wouldn't take one of those 1000W Corsair AX though, not that'd you'd ever need that in a HTPC :p

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Originally Posted by LeetyMcLeet

180mm would support a full sized ATX PSU, yeah. It probably wouldn't take one of those 1000W Corsair AX though, not that'd you'd ever need that in a HTPC :p

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You obviously aren't trying hard enough then! :P

is very hard watching a movie with all those fans making noise ,mini iTX is perfect for the job now that anyone can buy the 15-25w cpu and a low profile gpu for those who want 4k 60fps.
I think the cases from china are much better at the job.

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Originally Posted by xslavic

is very hard watching a movie with all those fans making noise ,mini iTX is perfect for the job now that anyone can buy the 15-25w cpu and a low profile gpu for those who want 4k 60fps.
I think the cases from china are much better at the job.

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I think that this is aimed at people who have spare parts lying around. I imagine if people where to do this they would be the kind of people who would put low profile after market coolers on so noise wouldn't be an issue, IMHO.

Most people don't have an old itx board lying around, but I know I do. Soon, I'll have another one, plus an A8-3870K. No external card for me, I reckon the iGPU on that could do 4K just nicely.

They look nice but the amount of internal drive bays for such a large case is massively underwhelming :(

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Originally Posted by xslavic

is very hard watching a movie with all those fans making noise ,mini iTX is perfect for the job now that anyone can buy the 15-25w cpu and a low profile gpu for those who want 4k 60fps.
I think the cases from china are much better at the job.

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What China cases are you talking about, am interested!

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Originally Posted by Jowsey

You obviously aren't trying hard enough then! :P

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What the hell have you got in your HTTPC then? lol :P

I do not understand the point of this case. For a pure HTPC you do not really need a separate GPU unless you are using MadVR at highest quality. Either you need a lot of storage capacity or, if like me you have a separate NAS, vitually none.

I like my HTPC cases to be silent, I can hear fans in quiet parts of movies.

I am not sure this is really an HTPC case - maybe more of a light gaming case but on its side

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Originally Posted by cjs150

I do not understand the point of this case. For a pure HTPC you do not really need a separate GPU unless you are using MadVR at highest quality. Either you need a lot of storage capacity or, if like me you have a separate NAS, vitually none.

I like my HTPC cases to be silent, I can hear fans in quiet parts of movies.

I am not sure this is really an HTPC case - maybe more of a light gaming case but on its side

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until things like steam streaming is 100%, there will be people like myself who's HTPC doubles up as a gaming machine (a la consoles). Larger cases are a necessity for this.

shaithis: fair enough but for the same price you could have a normal case with better airflow, about the same size and probably more storage space. So the only purpose for this case is for those who need to lay the case on its side but with an ODD that needs to be horizontal (use a slot mounted OD and it will work in either orientation). Seems a very niche market!