With the extremely built-in nature of PCs lately, the Mini-ITX form-factor has change into a really viable choice for high-performance gaming system. With loads of motherboards accessible for each AMD and Intel’s newest platforms, equipping an ITX system with a CPU is straightforward sufficient. But the small dimension of the shape issue signifies that housing an ultra-wide flagship-level graphics card stays a problem. For this yr’s Computex commerce present, Antec was exhibiting off their answer to the issue of large video playing cards: the Performance 1M case, a Mini-ITX case with a separate chamber only for a big video card.
Antec’s Performance 1M is a dual-chamber Mini-ITX chassis that splits off the video card from the remainder of the system. The major chamber homes a Mini-ITX motherboard and an SFX energy provide, whereas the secondary chamber homes an enormous graphics card. Notably, the 2 chambers are bridged utilizing a PCIe riser cable, permitting the motherboard chamber to be far shorter than even a half-height PCIe card, whereas the video card chamber can maintain a triple-slot video card parallel to the motherboard chamber, reducing down on wasted house. For Antec’s Computex demo, the corporate had a triple-slot ASUS GeForce RTX 4090 put in to showcase how this labored.
Antec’s choice to allocate many of the case’s quantity to th video card chamber does include a slight catch, nonetheless: it does not go away a lot house for a CPU cooler within the motherboard chamber. The brief motherboard chamber signifies that system builders should use a low-profile cooler; these are available, nevertheless it does go away much less thermal headroom total for high-end CPUs. So there are nonetheless trade-offs for with the ability to accommodate a high-end video card.
Otherwise, the Performance 1M chassis from Antec look very trendy and are historically effectively constructed from stainless-steel and aluminum. The chassis will be geared up with two 120-mm or two 140-mm coolers for additional airflow (which is able to assist efficiency), one 2.5-inch SATA SSD, and even some RGB bling. To make the PC constructed inside a Performance 1M case extra handy to make use of, there are two USB Type-C ports on the entrance.
Of course, housing a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card in a Mini-ITX chassis has its peculiarities in relation to dimensions and Antec’s Performance 1M measures 424×175×260mm, which is fairly giant. On the opposite hand, for an ultra-high-performance gaming system, that is fairly compact.
Antec’s Performance 1M Mini-ITX chassis will probably be accessible in gunmetal grey and matte black colours typically later this yr. Pricing is one thing that the corporate is considering now, although remember the fact that we’re speaking about distinctive premium merchandise.
