I've used this case (well the Sama IM02 branded one available in the US) and it is fantastic. Gets you to close to ITX size without any of the ITX tax. Microcenter actually uses a version of it for many of their PowerSpec branded prebuilt PCs and Lian Li actually sold it as well as the Lancool 185M.
awesome video just what i was looking for. - got a mobo with GPU in top 2 bracket aswell (550m steel legend) - an ATX PSU with 140mm len aswell (chieftec polaris) - GPU with 267mm len aswell (rx 6800 nonXT reference model) good to see it fits
the water cooling pump is located above the radiator? air will accumulate in the pump, it turns out you need to take AIO where the pump is cut into the tubes in the middle between the radiator and water block.
Is the gpu not bumping the psu? Thought this case was max 245ish for gpu length. I kinda want to build in this case but I want to use air cooling, I just don't know where the cpu cooler will pull air from 😅😅
that'd be if you mount the gpu vertically. Otherwise if you mount the gpu horizontally, it should have 355mm clearance depending on how low you choose to mount the psu. I get the sentiment for the airflow. I was planning on one or two fans at the bottom to push air into the gpu, and two at the top to push air out relying on negative pressure to pull air in from the sides/back(will have mesh filters inside on all openings) for the cpu.
probably adjacent to the cpu cooler and above the gpu, but otherwise the cpu cooler and gpu(that I'll be using) are too fat to fit a fan there. Will be building a pc using the sama 01 in a couple days when the final parts come in and can give a more accurate answer then.
@@Mr.McWatson build update: You'd need a mtx psu to do that, using a normal psu+3fan gpu leaves no room for side mounted fans. what I wound up doing: I went with a positive pressure airflow with 2 intake fans, 1. below the gpu, and one behind the cpu cooler. Also only 1 exhaust fan in front of the cpu cooler on the top panel of the case. I imagine with a 2 fan gpu instead of a 3 fan, you could put one below the psu, but not too sure.
I've used this case (well the Sama IM02 branded one available in the US) and it is fantastic. Gets you to close to ITX size without any of the ITX tax. Microcenter actually uses a version of it for many of their PowerSpec branded prebuilt PCs and Lian Li actually sold it as well as the Lancool 185M.
Its a beautiful case, I was surprised how premium it feels compared to some other bigger brands. And yeah almost itx without the itx tax, perfect.
awesome video just what i was looking for.
- got a mobo with GPU in top 2 bracket aswell (550m steel legend)
- an ATX PSU with 140mm len aswell (chieftec polaris)
- GPU with 267mm len aswell (rx 6800 nonXT reference model)
good to see it fits
the water cooling pump is located above the radiator? air will accumulate in the pump, it turns out you need to take AIO where the pump is cut into the tubes in the middle between the radiator and water block.
Is the gpu not bumping the psu? Thought this case was max 245ish for gpu length. I kinda want to build in this case but I want to use air cooling, I just don't know where the cpu cooler will pull air from 😅😅
that'd be if you mount the gpu vertically. Otherwise if you mount the gpu horizontally, it should have 355mm clearance depending on how low you choose to mount the psu.
I get the sentiment for the airflow. I was planning on one or two fans at the bottom to push air into the gpu, and two at the top to push air out relying on negative pressure to pull air in from the sides/back(will have mesh filters inside on all openings) for the cpu.
@@Me_Sean Wait, you can mount one on the mesh side blowing air into the gap between cooler and psu right?
probably adjacent to the cpu cooler and above the gpu, but otherwise the cpu cooler and gpu(that I'll be using) are too fat to fit a fan there.
Will be building a pc using the sama 01 in a couple days when the final parts come in and can give a more accurate answer then.
@@Mr.McWatson build update: You'd need a mtx psu to do that, using a normal psu+3fan gpu leaves no room for side mounted fans.
what I wound up doing:
I went with a positive pressure airflow with 2 intake fans, 1. below the gpu, and one behind the cpu cooler. Also only 1 exhaust fan in front of the cpu cooler on the top panel of the case.
I imagine with a 2 fan gpu instead of a 3 fan, you could put one below the psu, but not too sure.
@@Me_Sean Thanks for the info. Your setup is almost identical to what I was thinking about doing with this case, oddly enough