did you ever pine for the good old days when computers had character
i mean these days we've got flashy RGB
and tempered glass but is it not all the same standardized
parts and standardized operating systems running off a standardized box
maybe maybe it isn't
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you who don't recognize it this
is actually a one-to-one design copy of
the original apple ii the steve wozniak
designed machine that was ubiquitous in the united states in the 80s and 90s
to give you a bit of context for how important this computer was the apple ii
was produced for over 17 years starting
in 1977 meaning that
this may well have been the first computer for a literal entire generation
of students during that time so
the successful funding of xiaofeiwang's
indiegogo campaign to revive it as a
modern full atx computer case shouldn't raise too many eyebrows
but is this thing any good well why don't we take a quick tour of it our
unit is a prototype made primarily from 3d printed resin but it has all of the
features that are going to go into the final design the most prominent of which
being an integrated 68 key poker cherry mx
blue keyboard which looks satisfyingly
authentic but i do have to ask was anybody really
asking for the elevated keyboard design
to make a comeback here fortunately you don't have to use it
just do that so let's move on then
we've got a power button and a actually somewhat difficult to reach front usb 3
and headset jack set on the lower right here and then just like on the original
on the top we've got this removable panel giving us a look
there we go under the literal hood
of the chassis itself so in here we find six 60 millimeter
fans for exhaust along this side and
this side and then we've got two 120
millimeter fans over here as intake which i would think should be more than
adequate getting it open right up here
hardware compatibility is a bit of a mixed bag
though so we've got full atx support for our
motherboard here you can you can see that here the length is right
but we're confined to small form factor
territory for expansion so that means a single dual slot opening on the rear for
our GPU and then
just two two and a half inch drive mounts which on this revision of the
design are mounted right here directly under the keyboard
cooler clearance is another consideration for this case it's got 82
millimeters of total clearance and
yet another thing to keep in mind it supports only sfx
not sfxl power supplies meaning that the best that we can cram in there is a
Corsair sf600 or a silverstone sx 600 so
installing the motherboard is pretty straightforward we just need to remove
this cable management shroud at the bottom right of where the board goes
and our ryzen test bench complete with a knock to a low profile cooler with a 92
millimeter fan on the bottom should slot in a little something like
shalamo you've got an extra standoff in here
Anthony that's like Intel boards only when's the
last time anybody put one of those in well it's okay as long as the board
didn't die depending on who you asked it's been too long
as long as a prime doesn't edit this that's probably what we could enter the video for the power supply we ran into a
small issue though in the default configuration which would
have had it mounted
like this using this grille right here as an intake for the power supply our
power connector coming out the back was going to interfere
with our RAM slot see now one remedy would be to use a right
angle connector but honestly we thought it made more sense to just
carve out this little area in the bracket right here
so that we could mount the power supply the other way around
this gives it lots of clearance something that i'm sure will be fixed by
the time you guys deal with it is the weird coloring for the front wires this
is the kind of stuff we deal with when it comes to early units sometimes it's
like white black and red yellow and then which one's positive negative it's kind
of a just flip a coin moving on to the GPU to keep the form
factor low profile enough to maintain the original computer's dimensions
uh we needed a pci express riser for our graphics card this is another thing that
i would like to see improved in the final design
right now it just kind of sits here so you
kind of slot the bottom of the card in over here
which doesn't fit spectacularly well then at
the back you've just got this like two pieces that you gotta kind of
screw together to clamp it on there kind of thing
and it just kind of hangs there but maybe they can
do some work on that later i mean overall though looking at it the
layout's not bad let's get it wired up i don't know what they were thinking with
this cable shroud what's the point of it
oh i think i think that makes sense yeah
got to install our SSD we actually had to remove this mount
because we had trouble closing the case with it in place but you know there's
still time to fix those kinds of things in future hardware revisions
okay this wire is a problem ow
that's that'll reach
oh just about lost my screwdriver bit in
there
okay powering it on
as expected with the 60 millimeter fans it is a little noisier than i'd like
and that is even without the included fan controller that made them louder
than just using splitters and then headers off the motherboard so let's get
a stress test fired up in summary
building in this thing is a lot easier than finding and then
modding an old apple ii for modern hardware
but it's still kind of a pain and as expected the 60 millimeter fans
combined with the authentic but
not super effective slot design back
here means that pretty much as soon as you start up a 3d load
you're going to be generating a fair bit of noise
so for cooling our CPU hit 74 to 75
degrees under load so you can expect to see a little bit of boost
but our GPU hit its thermal threshold at 84 degrees and dialed back its boost
clocks now considering we're using a low profile CPU cooler with its 120
millimeter fan removed this isn't too shabby but i have seen better results in
smaller cases which brings us then neatly to the
conclusion if it wasn't clear from the start
let me spell it out for you here this is a niche product with niche
appeal absolutely not
for everyone and i guess that's reflected in its
small but enthusiastic community that allowed it to be funded over on
indiegogo the product needs some tweaking before it hits mass production
especially when it comes to ease of use and acoustics but if you can live with
the cost and the compromises and
there will be some this is definitely one of the most unique pc cases we've
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