Silverstone released its latest casing in the Fortress series released. The Fortress FT03-Mini is a smaller version of the FT03 and is suitable for a compact mitx motherboards on a different way to be built.
The Fortress series from Silverstone is distinguished by the way in which motherboards and other components are mounted. The motherboard is ninety degrees rotated assembled, so the i/o shield with the ports on the top of the housing is to be found. With the Mini version of the FT03 isn’t that different; the mini-itx motherboard on which the housing, is rotated built-in. That should be the flow of air from bottom to top, promote, and in addition, a smaller footprint, produce. For easy access to components can have the side panels losgeklikt.
The housing is 189 millimeters wide, 235 millimeters deep and has 397 millimeters high, and weighs 4,7 kg. In the modest-sized FT03-Mini is the place for the mitx board, but because of the rather high building can also be a good video card of 25cm are installed. There is space for one 3.5″ and two 2.5″drives, and the cpu cooler should 78mm high. The cooling is provided by a 140mm fan in the bottom of the housing. A small sfx power supply is needed for the aluminum housing. The FT03-Mini is in black and aluminium versions available; a price is not yet known.
