Thursday, July 26th 2018
Xigmatek Intros Scorpio Micro-ATX Case
Xigmatek today introduced the Scorpio tower-type micro-ATX case. The case appears to be a shrunk down version of the Prosper. Its main design elements are the see-through front and left side panels. While the front panel is made of tempered glass, the side panel is acrylic, with a reflective "mirror-like" finish. Although it looks otherwise in the pictures, there are no fans included with the case. You still get two 120 mm front intakes, two 120 mm "bottom" intakes positioned along the horizontal partition, and one each top and rear 120 mm exhausts.
The bottom compartment of the Xigmatek Scorpio, accessible from the right side, gives you access to the PSU bay and two 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drive bays. Two additional 2.5-inch drives can be mounted along the reverse side of the motherboard tray. The tray serves up room for graphics cards up to 33 cm in length, and CPU coolers up to 15.3 cm in height. Coarse dust filters line the PSU air intake, and the top exhaust. Front panel connectivity includes one each of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0/1.1 type-A ports, and HDA jacks. Available now, the Scorpio is priced at 30€.
The bottom compartment of the Xigmatek Scorpio, accessible from the right side, gives you access to the PSU bay and two 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drive bays. Two additional 2.5-inch drives can be mounted along the reverse side of the motherboard tray. The tray serves up room for graphics cards up to 33 cm in length, and CPU coolers up to 15.3 cm in height. Coarse dust filters line the PSU air intake, and the top exhaust. Front panel connectivity includes one each of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0/1.1 type-A ports, and HDA jacks. Available now, the Scorpio is priced at 30€.
9 Comments on Xigmatek Intros Scorpio Micro-ATX Case
Hope those 2x front fans have jet engine levels of static pressure. They're sure as fuck not being helped out by that front panel.
Hopefully we can get a review of it through TPU at some point, so that any thermal impact can be properly quantified and measured.
Additionally, the entire front fascia is probably 1 inch from the point it begins, to the very front of the glass, so you're taking away 4mm or so for glass thickness and another 0.8 for steel thickness, plus whatever else is going on there.
Much less than an inch of clean air in front of the fans and it's only taking in air directly from the bottom - which is exactly what the bitfenix enso did and it was a steaming heap of garbage that thermal throttled everything you put in it unless the components were low end enough to not be producing much heat in the first place.