Silverstone SG05-LITE Cube Noir

I chose to purchase the white version of this PC case. It’s very conveniently sized for placing on my IKEA square shelves, out of the way from the desk.The value is very good for the build quality. The casing is metal along with the front mesh, but the front panel casing is plastic. Cable management was a little difficult in this case but due to the fact the case is small and I used a full ATX RMi650 smart Power supply unit [PSU]. The top part of the case slides off to allow easier cable management, but fitting in the single smart 140mm Corsair fan with temperature monitor and the full ATX PSU was a slight squeeze. My 67mm CPU cooler just about fits height wise and helps suspend the PSU without implementing the PSU bracket making more cable space. This means that the only two main fans in the case incorporates the front 140mm fan and the PSU Fan.Overall the case is a sleek design and was well thought through.

Nicely designed for the small form factor system or htpc and the best part is that a power supply is included.there is room for two 2.5”hard drives and a 3.5”you could add two more 2.5” drives if you don’t use the bay for a slim dvd/cd drive.My Asus B250I Gaming board fits like a glove I just over did it with the larger heat sink and had to change the top fan that is 31mm deep to a Cryorig XT140 Thin Profile 13mm.There is a on/off power switch on the power supply in the case that can be missed and leave you thinking there’s a fault.

Overall a very compact ITX case that makes great use of space. I am also in possession of a SG08, and this case, despite losing out on the thick, hefty aluminum slab on the front of the SG08, is much more balanced.However, the clips on the front panel are still flimsy, and the 5.25" bay is way too cumbersome. The 2.5" bay should not be riveted to the 5.25" bay, as many people will forgo the optical drive for a single-SSD build. I simply velcro'd the SSD to the side of the PSU, but sandwiched between the ST45SF-G and the R7 265, its temperatures are rather high.Anyone thinking of using the ST45SF-G with the SG05: you either have the PSU or the 5.25" bay. You essentially cannot have both.

Awesome case which will fit in a top of the line system, just be careful with your choice of graphics card as it took some finagling to get in a 10.5" GTX 1070, it definitely wouldn't fit in anything longer. If you want to attach a handle you should be able to do it although it would only fit along the width rather than along the length due to the PSU vent. I'm running my system air cooled and the temps are perfectly fine, I'm using a SIlverstone AR06 with the fan reversed and have the PSU mounted so it exhausts air from the system and it runs 10-15C cooler than the fan and PSU in the normal directions although even in the hotter configuration the temps were manageable. I'd also recommend getting a fully modular PSU with shorter cables if you can afford the extra, and if you can get an SFX PSU instead of ATX that would also be slightly better but it's totally fine without.

Did some research on an ideal ITX case, which is not expensive, as some of the new crop of sandwich type cases seem to be. Components I installed are,Asrock Z390 gaming acI7-8700K16gb DDR 4000 steel viperCorsair 600 psuCorsair H80I cpu coolerGTX 1070 evgaAll the components fitted well, just had to re-orientate the cpu cooler twice to fit under the power supply ( make sure you use the silverstone psu bracket, its positioned higher than some others ) . I left the IO bracket out for better airflow. Really impressed with the thermals, was not expecting to overclock. The corsair ICue fan setting software has quiet, balanced and fast. Heres the results on a 5.0ghz overclock with LLC level2 and -90mmvolt offsett and using Aida64 extreme software for 30 minutes.Quiet setting on idle - cpu31 - vrms41 - fan930 revs - vcore0.64Quiet setting on max - cpu78 - vrms49 - fan1280 revs - vcore1.248Balanced setting on idle - cpu28 - vrms41 - fan1270 revs - vcore0.64Balanced setting on max - cpu73 - vrms46 - fan1890 revs - vcore1.268I have been using the quiet setting and for a few weeks for gaming and its brilliant, no thermal issues whatsoever. much quieter than expected. If you decide to use the balanced setting, might be better to use a notctua fan.Ps . the results are with the outside case lid fitted !.Hope this helps.

I've always been interested in Mini-ITX cases ever since I started watching Linus Tech Tips and Bitwit. I saw this case recommended by them and many other reviewers and thought of buying it. I think it's a really neat and low volume case that still manages to fit a full sized GPU but there IS clearance issue with the stock cooler that comes with the AMD Ryzen 7 2700 I bought (which was the wraith spire cooler)Other than that, the case is what I expected and I love it! I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to build a Mini-ITX build.

I wanted this because right now I'm using a tower and it's too big, I like more compact. I haven't put it together yet as I'm getting a motherboard for this at Christmas but have installed a front fan which was easy. The only thing which is a little pain is getting the cover off and on it's not so easy, you have to lift up rather than pull I found. Compared to my tower this is small! and would fit on my desk easy and you could even call this portable.