I'm so glad I made this video and had it 90% ready to publish. I'm a little crunched for time at the moment, so there may be some delays upcoming for the bigger content, but I'll try and keep it to a minimum. Hope you enjoyed this one, and thanks for any support you can give me!
That came in at 26th on the list unfortunately. It's only 14 litres though, and since this list didn't take volume into account it didn't quite make it. Thanks very much for sticking with me! :)
Thorough material, entertainingly presented - as with all your videos 💖 Didn't know the 380T was still available? Gave up looking for it a couple of years ago as the webshops I frequent all listed it as OOP. (Your affiliate link is a dud for me, but it could be due to Amazon redirecting me to its local site 😕) Also: "Just like this sentence..." I LOL'd.
Thanks very much! Not sure if the 380T is still around. I didn't really account for cases on sale today for this list (it's hard to keep up :D ). Makes my life a little easier haha.
checkout the SAMA iM01 / interTech iM-1 / Tecware fusion case, they're all the same case that can house mATX mobo & PSU but is only about 10-12cm taller than the Coolermaster NR200
Yeah... Not a lot of options for cheaper cases here. I've been looking at some cheaper cases to review lately. I'll have a look into the cheap ITX market.
@@AVTechy I have the P200A and a Fractal Design itx case. Looks similar to the node. Not sure of the name. I also have the Matrexx 40 but it’s a Micro ATX case.
@@JayzBeerz Managed to bag me a Cooler Master Elite 110 for a measly €20 in 2019 (believe that was the Black Friday pricing, though). Takes some patience to get all the parts in, the cabling in particular can turn out quite the challenge - but a 15L case that swallows a fullsize ATX PSU and would still accomodate a liquid cooler is hard not to like.
*Sigh* Ok. We must get something straight: the larger an ITX case is, the more useless it is and the more it defeats the purpose of the ITX format. Ranking ITX cases by hardware compatibility only makes sense within size limits. If you don't set that limit, that ranking becomes pointless, especially since majority of ATX cases can accomodate an ITX board and win by default because of much better HW compatibility. Also, it's unclear how much specific components impact case's grade, cooler, GPU, HDD...I'm sorry to say this video has missed the point. Some unofficial definition of the small form factor (SFF) made long ago by Intel and adopted by nearly all of today's SFF-focused communities defines SFF as 20 liters in volume or less. Some cases that are slightly over that limit by couple of liters "get the pass" from the community. That pretty much limits this list to first few cases. Once you break past 20-something liters, you start getting into mATX territory and getting an ITX case becomes pointless. Not to mention there are some ATX cases in the 25-30L bracket...
It's a bit of fun at the end of the day. I think you're guilty of the same accusations. The point of the video was right at the top. It's the "most junk in the trunk", stated in the video as "regardless of volume". It's a bit of fun and a way of shedding light on interesting designs, rather than a super serious absolutist list. Note the word "best" has quote marks in the thumbnail. It's not there by accident. There is no "best" ITX case. Your idea of best isn't the same as everyone else's. Think outside of the box man. Seriously. Intel made a spec and that's how it should be? Really? It's up to others to evaluate what they like, and you can have your opinion. If enough people like it so it's affordable to manufacture the product, what's the problem? There's no harm here. What if I want an ITX case that can take a 175mm cooler, a 280mm AIO, an ATX PSU, 3x 3.5" drives, enough space for a large fan controller, that can take a 300mm 3 slot Graphics card, and have great airflow, with the option for a pump? That might require more than 20 litres, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm pretty sure I mentioned in the video "all components being equal". Without breaking everything down. The score a spec will get is relative to all the rest of the cases in the spreadsheet. It's mixed with volume for my final scores in reviews, but for this video it stands on its own since this list doesn't concern itself with volume. I think you'd be better off wording your concern as "I'd really like to see a follow up that takes into account volume too", rather than going full agro on why this is a bad way of doing it. It would be a bad way if I was intending to make the list you want to see, but if I did that it would be a really bad way of making the list I intended to make. This isn't black and white, it's a shade of grey, and there are way more than just the one answer you think is "correct". Keep the absolutism down to a minimum. You may well just find there's more than one way of doing most things, and more than one angle in which to evaluate a subject.
