Friday, April 28th 2023
SilverStone Unveils ALTA F2, its 2023 Flagship Full-tower Case
SilverStone today unveiled the ALTA F2, its flagship gaming PC case. The case features a unique internal layout that maximizes component cooling using stack-effect cooling. The motherboard tray is rotated 90° such that its I/O faces the top of the case, while airflow from three large 180 mm Air Penetrator 184i PRO fans with air-channeling surfaces, direct air drawn from the bottom of the case onto almost all surfaces inside the case. There are three ways to orient your graphics card. The first of course sees it installed directly onto the motherboard, with its I/O facing the top, the next one sees it rotated, with its I/O still facing the top, but its fan vents facing the side-panel. The third and most unique orientation, sees the graphics card installed with its I/O pointing to the rear, but tilted sideways at a 11-degree angle.
The bottom chamber of the case is mostly empty, and serves as an air source for the 180 mm intake fans, but there are four 3.5-inch/2.5-inch mounts, should you want a handful drives located there. Three additional 2.5-inch drives can be mounted along spots on the motherboard tray, while four 3.5-inch drives can be mounted in a cage located in the front side. You get a total of 17 expansion slot possibilities—9 along the motherboard tray, 4 with a portion of it rotated, and 4 toward the rear.
Fan mounts on the SilverStone ALTA F2 include two 140/120 mm front intakes, four 120 mm or one 140 mm top exhausts, and three 180 mm bottom intakes. Radiator installation options include a 280 mm (or smaller) along the front-panel, a 480 mm or smaller long the top panel, and a 560 mm or smaller radiator along the bottom vents. In its conventional orientation, the case supports graphics cards up to 35.4 cm in length, but with the I/O oriented in the rear, you get a mammoth 60.4 cm room. The PSU bay supports up to 22 cm long power supplies. CPU coolers can be up to 20.5 cm tall. Measuring 261 mm (W) x 576 mm (H) x 658 mm (D), the ALTA F2 dry-weighs 21.14 kg.
The SilverStone ALTA F2 is expected to be available in Asia starting next week, followed by North America in the middle of May, and Europe by the end of May. Depending on the region, the case is expected to be priced in the USD $900 to $1,000 range.
The bottom chamber of the case is mostly empty, and serves as an air source for the 180 mm intake fans, but there are four 3.5-inch/2.5-inch mounts, should you want a handful drives located there. Three additional 2.5-inch drives can be mounted along spots on the motherboard tray, while four 3.5-inch drives can be mounted in a cage located in the front side. You get a total of 17 expansion slot possibilities—9 along the motherboard tray, 4 with a portion of it rotated, and 4 toward the rear.
41 Comments on SilverStone Unveils ALTA F2, its 2023 Flagship Full-tower Case
Cheeses wept.
Oh, it's meant to be like that??!
Why?
DvD movies
Bluray movies
uhd movies
backup data discs - photos & documents, whatever
music cd albums
dvd pc games
windows install disc
programs
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Companies think that copying other businesses is good because trends show what people want... in reality in a sane intelligent mind it screams "we suck we can't think on our own please don't buy our stuff"
So yeah, it is big. But if you like to have a case like this that is more compact, we do already have the ALTA F1 (which some have complained for being too small to be a true flaship)!
www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/ALTAF1/We'd like to also, but wiith today's raw material prices, it's tough to go back to making a case all aluminum. The ALTA F2 still has a healthy amount of it though and for having a view to the interior, nothing is better than glass at this moment."Gaming" was never mentioned in any of our press material or on the ALTA F2 product page. btarunr added the word gaming to his post own his own, but that's understandable considering the case can fit big graphics card.We think 5.25" drive bays are very important too! That's why we actually released a fairly high end case that still has 5.25" bays just last month with the "SETA D1", please check it out if you haven't already:
www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/SETA_D1/
Big thanks to all of you for the early feedbacks on the ALTA F2, as you can clearly see already, this case isn't for everyone. But we needed to build something like this for ourselves (for our designers and engineers to not have to build cases to a strict budget and to try cool ideas they had in mind for years) and for customers of our old flagship Temjin & Fortress cases who have waited over a decade for something like this. So please don't take this the wrong way that we have somehow lost our senses as a company with the ALTA F2, we still build and will continue to build other sensible cases for years to come. But for 2023, our 20th anniversary, we want to celebrate by doing something that is more out of ordinary. So please cheer up and celebrate with us as we see what cool builds people would do with this magnificent PC case!
"SilverStone today unveiled the ALTA F2, its flagship gaming PC case."
You have to understand where I'm coming from. My first real wcing case was a tj-06. That was a killer case. Perfect in almost every way (back then). I love big, badass, sexy wcing cases. When I read the title, I thought it was finally time! Time for something saweet from Silverstone! The first thing I see? A glass faceplate. Cookie cutter glass faceplate. So much for badass and sexy.
Nothing personal but the
tj-06 was the last badass, innovative, wcing, full tower Silverstone made.
I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is and spend a fat chunk on a badass case, think CM 700 series or Lian Li V3000 plus. But it has to tick nearly all of the wcing and aesthetic boxes.
There hasn't been anything close to the tj-06 since it's release (20yrs ago?)
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The Alta f2 has some tj-06 flavor but again leaves me waiting for Silverstone to bring me a truly badass, wcing super tower.
Sorry, my money's going elsewhere.
'nuff said :D
Unless they can prove, there is some space....
The Air Penetrators were always a good fan line, and I've never encountered any issues with my old Gen 1 versions, even with a fan filter in front.
I have always time for big 90 degree cases. It'll fit TRX40 Gigabyte XL-ATX or EEB without a hitch. I like extra PCI slots on the side for funky items like M.2 converters on a cable or old school analog fan controllers.
Please then just remove every single skewed mounting point and also leave a hole on the PSU sleeve at the top of the case, because there are a lot of PSUs which have ventilation holes both on the top and both on the bottom, so I'm fairly positive that having one arbitrarily occluded by a quirky bad case design won't be a valid point for a your customer having to file an RMA for a failing PSU because of overheating.
And this is totally on point btw
Alta F1, which is an excellent case otherwise, had an issue with an upright GPU installation entailed by 90 degree motherboard rotation due to the structure of heatpipes most modern GPUs use. There have been many reports of higher temperature of a GPU installed upright. This issue seems to be addressed by tilted GPU installation in Alta F2. Although I do not know to what extent titled installation is better than horizontal installation, it at least avoids the problem arising from upright installation. In addition, when a GPU is installed in this manner in Alta F2, it is moved away from the motherboard, which may contribute to cooling efficiency through the dispersal of heat sources.
The only complaint I have with Alta F2, besides its exhorbitant price, is seeming inability to have bottom fans replaced. It was possible with Alta F1. As a matter of fact, due to their noise, I replaced 180 mm fans of Alta F1 by Noctua's NF-S12A. I was hoping Alta F2's bottom fans would be replaceable, which does not seems to be the case. They might be replaceable by other 180mm fans, but AFAIK there do not seem to be any 180mm fan available on the market that is quiet enough.
- SATA/SAS hotswap cages for 3.5 or 2.5" drives, or even NVMe
- tape drive for backup (rare I admit but I have one)
- front panels
Like FT02 owners?
Like me?
Well thanks :)
Are there some vents topside that nudge the airflow to the back a little?
Cause 10 years of dry eyes with my FT02 was and still is no fun.
The Backside is almost closed off!
Why don´t you direct hot air and sound to the back?
That would be a "prosumer" move!
Because my ears wil not appreciate hearing the mechanical harddrives at the front opening.
And if anyone ever takes the time to test the new 180 "pro" fans long term, you are in deep trouble!
Mine did not last 3 months before the bearings startet "krrrkrrr".
The fan filters are the BEST though. I have never had to clean my case from within.
Last and biggest issue of them all:
No Silverstone Case with 180mm fans can run silent, EVER!
That's because of the 180mm hard mounts that intensify the fans sound to the point that you think you are in fireflys engine room.
For your own bottom line if would seriously try anything to get the 180mm fans running silently in idle by decoupling them.
Nobody needs 1500 rpm fans if they still can be heard whilst running 250 rpm.
I will watch out for this case and its successor.
True words from an old fart
Best of Luck!
Carlyle