NCASE M1 - they're taking orders!

[ViviTheMage]

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ncase-m1-mini-itx-pc-case

ordered my two, anyone else getting this case? So neat, can't wait to water cool it up!

 

[SithSolo1]

There is already a thread the in the SFF/Notebook forum, but yes a few of us have already ordered.

 

[JEDIYoda]

There is already a thread the in the SFF/Notebook forum, but yes a few of us have already ordered.

that`s nice...this thread is appropriate here too!!

 

[Agent11]

I wonder how they managed to get Lian Li to build these things. Pretty cool though.

 

[SKORPI0]

There is already a thread the in the SFF/Notebook forum, but yes a few of us have already ordered.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2301671

How it started..... http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1717132

 

[ViviTheMage]

my bad, SFF seems like a redundant topic

 

[TheStu]

I wonder how they managed to get Lian Li to build these things. Pretty cool though.

The creator knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy?

 

[smackababy]

The creator knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy?

Or, they did all the work of design, material vendors, everything else and then went to Lian Li and said "build this and take 30%". Lian Li looked and probably thought "it cost us x to make this with their materials and that leaves us y profit; sure why not?". Everyone wins.

 

[aigomorla]

245 dollars?!?!?!?!

Am i missing something here?
Is the case made out of unobtainium?

Not even Windy could get away with a 245 dollar case of this type.

The prodidgy next to it costs less then half for the same features...

Im lost in how they think people will buy this....


You know why ll did it?
they are taking a front payment... basically LL told them if u can gather X amount we'll start it.
Cuz LL knows they could NEVER get away with charging a case that expensive with there real name.

 

[SithSolo1]

Its only $205 if you live in the US. Its all aluminum and ~14L smaller than the Prodigy, not including the stupid handles, yet still has similar features. That combined with the relatively low production volume are why it cost what it does.

 

[smackababy]

Its only $205 if you live in the US. Its all aluminum and ~14L smaller than the Prodigy, not including the stupid handles, yet still has similar features. That combined with the relatively low production volume are why it cost what it does.

Which is silly. Low production volume? Is this supposed to be a collector's item then? $205 dollars for this case is rather ridiculous.

 

[CZroe]

Not a fan of this particular design (not particularly small and it's not like there's been significant demand for water cooling + mini-ITX). I've long wanted a small micro-ATX design that uses a riser card for a dual-slot GPU over the CPU with a sort of wind-tunnel underneath for cooling the CPU with a smaller cooler (not necessarily low-profile; just not a tower cooler using all of the ATX spec). Even back in 2001/2002 when I first started dreaming it up I intended to use slim optical drives though there would still be plenty of room for 3.5" HDDs. Because no one has made something similar in all this time and now we're already on to stuff like this (may as well be a BitFenix Prodigy), I'm going to guess that it'll never happen.

Intel's Thin-mini ITX spec is interesting but no one has made a Haswell board for it yet and a lot of the cases aren't that thin (still designed to fit mini-ITX as well).

 

[SithSolo1]

Which is silly. Low production volume? Is this supposed to be a collector's item then? $205 dollars for this case is rather ridiculous.

Its a limited run, highly niche product. The low production volume increases the build cost set by Lian Li, if they were making as many of these as Lian Li does the PC-Q11 I'm sure it would be cheaper. Its not everyone's cup of tea but it seems to be selling rather well.

 

[Aikouka]

Based on it having 3 expansion slots, I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't support Micro-ATX. My Gaming HTPC requires 2 PCI-E slots (and 3 expansion slots) for the GPU and the InfiniTV 4 card, which means I need at least a Micro-ATX. I'm currently using a full ATX setup for it, but I wouldn't mind going smaller! Unfortunately, Micro-ATX is 244mm, which is taller than the case's 240mm. So, they probably would have had to add about 10-15mm to the case to make it a tight fit.

What sort of water cooling are you planning on using? The Swiftech H20-220 Edge?

 

[CZroe]

Its a limited run, highly niche product. The low production volume increases the build cost set by Lian Li, if they were making as many of these as Lian Li does the PC-Q11 I'm sure it would be cheaper. Its not everyone's cup of tea but it seems to be selling rather well.

If it proves popular enough I'm not sure why Lian Li would continue making their other mini-ITX cases instead of their own version of this.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Based on it having 3 expansion slots, I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't support Micro-ATX. My Gaming HTPC requires 2 PCI-E slots (and 3 expansion slots) for the GPU and the InfiniTV 4 card, which means I need at least a Micro-ATX. I'm currently using a full ATX setup for it, but I wouldn't mind going smaller! Unfortunately, Micro-ATX is 244mm, which is taller than the case's 240mm. So, they probably would have had to add about 10-15mm to the case to make it a tight fit.

What sort of water cooling are you planning on using? The Swiftech H20-220 Edge?

You can always get a USB inifiniTV .

 

[Aikouka]

You can always get a USB inifiniTV .

Their newer network-based option looks even better than that.

http://www.amazon.com/Ceton-InfiniTV...dp/B00CBXEKZ0/

 

[ViviTheMage]

Their newer network-based option looks even better than that.

http://www.amazon.com/Ceton-InfiniTV...dp/B00CBXEKZ0/

aweeeeeeesome, only 1 card too!

 

[aigomorla]

Its only $205 if you live in the US. Its all aluminum and ~14L smaller than the Prodigy, not including the stupid handles, yet still has similar features. That combined with the relatively low production volume are why it cost what it does.

40 dollar shipping!

There trying to make money off the shipping... when they are already grossing up the price...
(i dont know if its LL whose doing this.. but someone is pocketing the shipping fee's on top of a already premium priced case.)

this makes me kinda mad because i have a fedex business account... and 40 dollar shipping means morning next day delivery on something that big...

i really dont understand the popular demand on this case...
This type of case is exclusive limited to highly experienced watercoolers...
as there is no other way ur gonna get the gpu block done anyhow, or even be able to service the machine.

Id probably buy it for 205 with shipping... that would mean the case would be 165ish... however... even i can tell you, im gonna go though hell setting up that machine.
i would still need to be desperate in small spaces cuz i think the prodigy still looks better even tho its 14L biggers.

Also the flat horizontal mount... GPU + Waterblock + Air Sinks can get MASSIVE... Even using pci holders to support it... its still a LOT of weight.

The prodigy's flat horizontal mounting system makes the case SUPER FRIENDLY when Top Cooling gear + GPU's are required, because weight is transfered down and not torqued.
IC's on the board doesnt need to recycle hot air either... as everything is rising at once.. and not in gradiants.
Stuck Air pockets are also easier to fix on horizontal mount... vs vertical mounting... i can go on and on about hori mounts...

That is why the prodigy is 14L bigger... there's reasons to almost everything inside the case...

 

[Aikouka]

40 dollar shipping!

...

Id probably buy it for 205 with shipping... that would mean the case would be 165ish... however... even i can tell you, im gonna go though hell setting up that machine.

It is $205 with shipping, but that's only for orders in the United States. The people here are probably mostly US buyers.

 

[SithSolo1]

It is $205 with shipping, but that's only for orders in the United States. The people here are probably mostly US buyers.

Correct, the $40 shipping is for international buyers. Afaik, they are not being shipped directly to your door from LL.
LL is freight shipping the cases to a warehouse near one of the people running the project and then he is reshipping them to individual buyers.

 

[YBS1]

Thanks OP! I had actually checked the site yesterday but I guess I didn't look at the update section. It's a neat little case, I don't even really have a use for it just yet. Maybe I'll build my first AMD system in a long while once it arrives and use it as an HTPC. I have a Q6700 here but it has a Micro ATX board, guess I could find a Mini ITX for it. Anyone know of a particularly good Mini ITX overclocking board (DDR2 preferably as that's what I already have for it) for Core2Quads?

 

[aigomorla]

It is $205 with shipping, but that's only for orders in the United States. The people here are probably mostly US buyers.

oh then i totally missed it...

 

[Agent11]

Lian-Li would be smart to make it a production case.

 

[SolMiester]

wow, its smaller than I thought....the Prodigy was small enough for me....