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Review: SilverStone SG-03 - WORLD EXCLUSIVE!

by Matt Davey on 18 April 2007, 14:57

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Conclusion

Well it's been a whirlwind trip with the SG-03 and, despite the suggestions we have for improvements, we still reckon that this is a cracking piece of kit.

It's very compact in size and the rather surprising compatibility with full-size components is a big plus in our book.

While we have a few issues with the temperatures we saw, it has to be said we put in some extremely hot running components - there are plenty of cooler-running products that we'd expect to work well inside an SG-03.

As we said at the outset, some retailers are already listing the SG-03 at £80-85 pounds and, after going hands-on, we reckon that's something of a bargain.

High build-quality coupled with considerable flexibility means this is going to be a cracker of a chassis for the small business, home enthusiast and HTPC market. It will just be interesting to see if any of our suggestions make it into forthcoming product revisions.

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Availability

The SG03 should be available in Mid April in UK retailers.


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I was frantically refreshing this forum when I saw the “latest review” box change to this..

Let me be the first to say, giggity!

I haven't even got round to reading this yet, but I hope my prayers have been answered…

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=103979

Edit: good choice of lager there too ;)
Looks like a finky little case. Out of curiousity can you mount the PSU the other way around and use it to cool the CPU?
It looks amazing in real life as well as in this review :)

I can't wait to get one!
chuckskull
Looks like a finky little case. Out of curiousity can you mount the PSU the other way around and use it to cool the CPU?

As per the review indeed you can.

You have to be careful though, the PSU fan is sucking air in, the CPU fan is blowing it down, therefore putting the PSU like that could cause cooling issues.

Matt.
Oops must of missed that part of the review. I was thinking a decent passive heatsink, combined with the PSU fan would be ample cooling for a HTPC and remove another fan, therefore lower noise.

Now if only I had any need for a HTPC I could try it out :P