Tuesday, March 3rd 2015

SilentiumPC Announces Alea M50 Pure Black Case

SilentiumPC announced the Alea M50 Pure Black chassis. The new Alea M50 is the first gaming-cube type chassis from SilentiumPC. It fuses flexibility with simple yet classy exterior design. Outside plastic elements are coated with matte soft-touch layer adding premium feel while transparent widows on both sides allow for showcasing precious components of your beloved gaming rig.

Impressively roomy interior features a dual-chamber design for smart thermal management and support up to micro-ATX motherboards. There are virtually no limitations in choosing other components as the M50 will fit up to 360mm long graphics cards and massive 200mm CPU coolers. Users can also install up to 4 x 2,5" HDD/SSD or 2 x 2,5" SSD + 3 x 3,5" HDD, there is also external 5,25" drive bay available for DVD burners or fan controllers.
As an enthusiasts-oriented chassis the Alea M50 puts emphasis on airflow with 200mm intake fan in the front and 120mm white-LED fan in the back for exceptional cooling performance. The case offers several mounting positions for liquid cooling radiators as well as dual radiator AIO support in the upper section.

For extra connectivity options the case comes equipped with SDXC Card Reader and USB3.0 ports.

Key features:
  • Sturdy steel chassis and soft-touch plastics coating
  • Transparent windows on both side panels for showing off the components
  • Up to 5 cooling fans, comes with two pre-installed 1 x 200mm and 1 x 120mm
  • Supports full-ATX power supplies and up to 360mm long VGA cards
  • Supports 205mm high CPU coolers and dual-radiator AIO water cooling kits
  • Features a built-in SDXC Card Reader & USB 3.0 port
Tech specs:
  • Dimensions: 410(H) x 412(L) x 279(W) mm
  • Motherboard support: mATX / mini-ITX
  • PSU: ATX standard (not included)
  • Expansion slots: 4
  • Net weight: 5,4 kg
  • Drive bays:
  • External: 1 x 5,25"
  • Internal (up to five drives): 2 x 2,5" + 1 x 3,5" + 2 x 2,5" or 3,5"
  • Maximum VGA card length: 360mm
  • Maximum CPU cooler height: 205mm
  • Cooling system (up to five fans in total):
  • Front: included 1 x 200mm intake fan (@ 700 RPM) or optional 1 x 120/140mm fan
  • Rear / upper chamber: included 1 x 120mm exhaust fan (@ 1200 RPM, White LED)
  • Rear / lower chamber: optional 1 x 80mm fan
  • Top: optional 2 x 120mm or 2 x 140mm
  • Front panel interface:
    o 1 x USB 3.0
    o 2 x USB 2.0
    o 1 x Headphone jack (HD audio)
    o 1 x Microphone jack (HD audio)
    o 1 x SDXC Card Reader
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12 Comments on SilentiumPC Announces Alea M50 Pure Black Case

#1
Jhelms
I really dig the case - especially that they fit in a 5.25 bay on the front. Well done!
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#2
peche
Thermaltake fanboy
imteresting .. that cube form on a case its like a fashion thing now days...
Regards,
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#3
phanbuey
I cant imagine that being particularly silent.
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#5
BiggieShady
phanbueyI cant imagine that being particularly silent.
Seems to me that intake fan, cpu fan and outtake fan are all in line here and pretty close to one another. That means they can run with low rpm and still provide enough fresh air to all passive heatsinks.
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#6
PLAfiller
It's a cube, by default I am not interested. Rizer card FTW!
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#8
SirMango
phanbueyI cant imagine that being particularly silent.
For a company that specializes into silent PC hardware, I'm surprised by the design of this case as well. Noise will easily leak through the front and the side window panel.
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#9
phanbuey
BiggieShadySeems to me that intake fan, cpu fan and outtake fan are all in line here and pretty close to one another. That means they can run with low rpm and still provide enough fresh air to all passive heatsinks.
Sure, that will be quiet, but Silentium was typically for ridiculously silent PCs, and the cases would suppress the noise of PSU, HDD and coolers fairly well.

This is more of a gaming rig design designed to maximize airflow vs noise.
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#10
techy1
it will be silent and it has lot of space for many stuff, but it is NOT a m-ATX (as it is marketed and its mobo size is limited)... this case footprint volume is 47 liters !! (there is m-ATX cases that take only 20 liters of space). and normal ATX cases start from 35 liters... so if you go wide and big - there is plenty of ATX cases with much more room for anything (silent vents, HDDs, GPU's, PSU's, 5.25's - you name it) - so nothing spectacular about this - "limited to m-ATX board, ATX size" - case.
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#11
HarvesterOfSorrow
not sure if rpm in review is wrong but my bro have this case and front fan spins at 1700rpm and exhaust at 1400rpm
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#12
HarvesterOfSorrow
i think front fan really spins that high abut 1000rpm over advertised speed? How can it be?
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