Friday, May 4th 2018
In Win Introduces Its A1 Series of Mini-ITX Enclosures
In Win today introduced the world to its A1 series of PC enclosures, starting with a mini-ITXcase that has the looks, transparency, and RGB goodness the majority of the market is looking for these days. Built from tempered glass and anodized aluminum, the design language for the A1 embodies the modern era, in a small package that can nonetheless hold up to 20 liters of PC hardware components (isn't that an interesting measure for hardware?). What's more telling, maybe, is how the A1 still supports tower coolers up to 160 mm tall and a dual-slot graphics card up to 300 mm in length.
2x front USB 3.0 and HD audio ports are available, alongside 2x 2.5-inch drive bays. The A1 supports 120 mm fans on the side and rear and 2x 120mm fans on the bottom of the case, just above the supplied dust filter. An In Win 600 W, 80 PLUS Bronze power supply is also included with the A1, with preinstalled cables already laid clean in the housing. The power supply is housed in an insulated upper power supply chamber that provides easy access to the interior of the compact system, and separates the heat buildup from this component and the rest of the cases' contents.
Interestingly, the A1 supports an optional Qi Wireless Charger * (IW-W1), which integrates with the top panel and allows the user to wirelessly charge their compatible mobile devices. It supports Qi's most popular wireless Qi charging standard and delivers up to 5 watts of charging power.
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26 Comments on In Win Introduces Its A1 Series of Mini-ITX Enclosures
Mini-ATX standard
Mini-ITX standard
PC case, fish tank, bucket, same thing, no?
This case: they use rounded edges everywhere and then you look on the side panels and there are hexagon holes in there and straight/hard cornered window panels... no rounding of any other edge in sight. As if they started on some idea and halfway through another designer took over with his own vision.
Crap, it even has a 'notch' in the tower's base... ouch
But granted, without that reference point, it's useless...
As one post above said, you can use it as a good reference. If you know how many liters your own case can hold, you can pretty accurately gauge the size of any other case. If your case is 40 liters, then a 20 liter case is exactly half the size. And now you just have to hold one number in memory instead of three for the length of each dimension. Liters actually make it much easier!
The 1000 cm3/10x10x10cm cube measure is very useful, though, even if you're of the imperial persuasion. One liter is a 4"x4"x4" cube.No. This is excruciatingly simple, really. As PowerPC said above, this can be eyeballed within reason by pretty much any child in the metric-using world, and as explained above, the conversion to imperial is dead simple too. It's also reasonably easy to imagine, say, that cube cut in half and stacked, for things that aren't quite that cube-like.That's turning things on their head a bit. 7-10l cases are TINY, even for ITX systems, as long as they include space for a GPU. For ITX without a GPU, 7l is rather large. But for fitting standard components (i.e. not requiring 1u server PSUs or FlexATX), 7-10l is absolutely frickin' tiny. 20l is perfectly normal. You're talking as if 7-10l is normal, which it really isn't. Your mental image of 'normal' needs adjusting. Are there a few options in the ~10l space? Sure. But it's definitely not normal.
But now sfx is getting really good, and itx gpu are performing reasonably well, which is making it easier to have option really making use of the small size of the motherboard.
I still remember back when the node 202 (19 liters) launched people were in wonder because it could fit in a large backpack even with all the constraints of being compatible with atx powersupply (limited in length, modular were harder to work with). A new version using a sfx psu would actually be more optimized.
Having a case with 20L volume means it's WxDxH will equal to 20000cm^3, meaning if the case was a perfect cube it will measure about 27.14cm per side.
Why not just give us a normal side panel for 12mm or 14mm fan instead of that stupid tempered glass panel?
I actually own one. The airflow is nice, better than most ATX cases. 2x120mm in the floor under the GPU with alot of space in between. 1x120mm, rear and one side make for 4 fans with positive air flow.
My only complaint is no dust filter on the side panel, I had to buy my own, however, 10 bucks was worth it.
The case fits any mITX motherboard currently manufactured (sigh), I use that term for all the people that complain retiredly about the form factor. Really, its 2018 not 2000, its mITX ...
Easy to build in and the PSU isnt garbage, its made by Powerman (FSP version for OEMs) FSP is among the top manufacturers of PSUs with Superflower, Seasonic etc. Do some research.
It is a little pricy, but after 3 different mITX cases that are actual toaster ovens I have tried with a SFF PSU that costs $90 for 450w made by, guess who? FSP, ( the Silverstone RZV series, Fractal Design Node 202) it was well worth the cost and looks much better.
For those with a size issue.
20L = 273 x 216 x 355.5mm
As clearly stated on their website.
TLDR = Best looking, air flow featured mITX case on the market hands down. Ignore the basement dwellers above.