The Silverstone Fortress FTZ01 Gaming mITX Case

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Back Panel
showing the i/o panel zone and the 90° flipped video card double slotted i/o plates

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Side panel
showing the solidly built U shaped aluminium unibody which loops from the side to the front and onto the other side

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Front Panel
showing the subdued Silverstone branding, optical disc slot, power/reset buttons/LEDs, audio and USB3 ports

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Dis-assembly
Showing the bundled 15mm thick, 120mm 0.15A fan on the top panel

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Interior
Showing storage/video card bays on the left and mobo/PSU bays on the right

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Note the 2 different types of Philips screws (flush and rounded) are used for securing the bays

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[Nemesys]

Looks like rvz02 more worth it

 

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Storage/GPU bay unscrewed and flipped up to reveal the bottom intake fan

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Storage/GPU bay totally removed

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Close up of the internal cables - not all are sleeved black

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Close up of panel riveting and honey comb meshes

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Showing location of the slot in slim optical drive

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PSU cage removed - the last anchoring screw definitely needs a bright torch for access in the all black interior. Note this fits SFX and SFX-L PSU models too.

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Finally, full interior access showing the internal PSU extension cable

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The Test Rig
Trying to fit up a small compact yet cost effective HTPC, casual gaming PC to last a few years... trying a full Silverstone theme rig to go with this FTZ01 case.


The Motherboard
Asus B150i Pro Gaming WiFi Aura
Reason for choice - full featured, no need to pay more for overclocking Z premium, the great Asus UEFI


Intel i3-6100
Reason for choice - dual fast cores with high stock clock speed of 3.7GHz, above average cost performance


Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 RAM
Great budget RAM, sold in kits or separate sticks. For more info, click!

Reason for choice - low profile, nice aesthetics in neutral silver gray, good performers, highly compatible



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Silverstone AR06 HSF
Reason for choice - low profile 58mm only, 4 x direct contact heatpipe thermal transfer. Effective in keeping the CPU cool in a compact rig. Supports both AMD and Intel socket designs.

The fan colour combination is quirky enough but you can see later on that for our purposes here, it works to the advantage of clearing showing off where the case fresh air intake for the CPU lies. The bundled fan is a slim 0.15A model with 4 wires ie. PWM speed control.

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[ragnarok95]

This HS very cute!

 

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You like the colour combo of the fan?

 

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SilverStone ST45SF-G Power Supply (80+ Gold)
Sleek looking in black, fully modular mITX 80+ Gold PSU from the market leader in SFX and SFX-L format power units.

The full modularity makes a big difference when assembling a compact case like this where room for manoeuvring is a luxury. The trick is to attach the cables to the mobo 1st before attaching them to the PSU proper, allowing you to snake and hide away the cables.

It also sports short cables tailored for a small casing so there are no unnecessarily long cables runs with nowhere to hide in such tight spaces.

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Bundled accessories include a mounting plate for full sized ATX case installation as can be seen on the right.
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