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SilverStone Unveils ALTA F2, its 2023 Flagship Full-tower Case

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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.

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That's one wonky case... I think I would get very annoyed looking at that...
 
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I think the title is wrong... should be "Flagshit", there is no room for addon cards, just like the Hyte cases.
 
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Who at silverstone was sh*tfaced on meth when they designed the interior of this chassis?

Cheeses wept.
 
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Go home Silverstone, you're drunk!

Oh, it's meant to be like that??!
 
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The 3x 180 i like, the rest are, well, garbage. I understand they wanted* to have something unique in a very saturated market but unique isn't necessarily good, its just weird without making much sense with alot of wasted space.
 
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ooof.... that thing is huge and not for good reasons.
 
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ooof.... that thing is huge and not for good reasons.
I agree with you too. It would be nice to see a version of this case without all those hard drive bays on the right and below the case. And the top could slim down just a little. This joker could loose some weight.
 
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$900-$1000? WOW, someone was hittin the pipe hard when they tossed those numbers out there. There's a few cool ideas, squashed into a mish mash of truly awful ones. Are they TRYING to crater their company with this sad excuse for a "gaming" case (of course that's what they call it)? Why try to call it "gaming", the most tired, worn out, lame term used for gear today? It's just a case. This lump isn't going to sell one unit. Unless they're lucky and catch Kanye drunk buying on eBay.
 
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No 5'25" drive bay(s) = super idiot trend.

Why?

DvD movies
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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"
 
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I think the title is wrong... should be "Flagshit", there is no room for addon cards, just like the Hyte cases.
There is three ways to install the graphics card, so if more addon cards are needed, there is actually a total of 9 slots on the case available when all cards are installed directly onto motherboard's PCIe slots.

The 3x 180 i like, the rest are, well, garbage. I understand they wanted* to have something unique in a very saturated market but unique isn't necessarily good, its just weird without making much sense with alot of wasted space.
ooof.... that thing is huge and not for good reasons.
I agree with you too. It would be nice to see a version of this case without all those hard drive bays on the right and below the case. And the top could slim down just a little. This joker could loose some weight.
Our goal for this case was to make the best out of the box cooling possible utilizing all the best way we know. So besides using our best fans (Air Penetrator 180i PRO), we tested for months on the most optimal position and angle for the card to be installed alongside the rest of the components. The final result was a case that can cool better than any cases we've built (and we've build many that were class-leading over the years). It's also better than having everything out on a test bench.

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)!

No more of this glass crap and go back to the all ALU stuff you used to make!
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.

$900-$1000? WOW, someone was hittin the pipe hard when they tossed those numbers out there. There's a few cool ideas, squashed into a mish mash of truly awful ones. Are they TRYING to crater their company with this sad excuse for a "gaming" case (of course that's what they call it)? Why try to call it "gaming", the most tired, worn out, lame term used for gear today? It's just a case. This lump isn't going to sell one unit. Unless they're lucky and catch Kanye drunk buying on eBay.
"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.

No 5'25" drive bay(s) = super idiot trend.

Why?

DvD movies
Bluray movies
uhd movies
backup data discs - photos & documents, whatever
music cd albums
dvd pc games
windows install disc
programs
+

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"
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:


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!
 
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Our goal for this case was to make the best out of the box cooling possible utilizing all the best way we know. So besides using our best fans (Air Penetrator 180i PRO), we tested for months on the most optimal position and angle for the card to be installed alongside the rest of the components. The final result was a case that can cool better than any cases we've built (and we've build many that were class-leading over the years). It's also better than having everything out on a test bench.
Thanks yes. I saw this case. I have an existing Asus WRX 80 Pro, that will not fit in that case. Nice looking case.
 
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"and we shall build a giant case with skewed mounting points everywhere"

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Sorry Silverstone bro, TPU must have edited/added it in? First line of the article.

"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?)

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.
 
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I agree with you too. It would be nice to see a version of this case without all those hard drive bays on the right and below the case. And the top could slim down just a little. This joker could loose some weight.
I believe they have a smaller version, the F1
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Pharma rulz, common sense droolz :)

'nuff said :D
 
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I hope Silverstone sends one to GamersNexus for cooling reviews. Given the serious claim of having some really great air-cooling in a non-ducted case (unlike workstations or servers that have plastic shrouds/ducts to direct airflow precisely), I'd like to see that tested to the limit by GN.

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.
 
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Say what you want. I like it (- stupid HDD cages, fortunately according to spec sheet which can be removed). Need more info and some real view video.

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.
 
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I'm a huge fan of 90° rotated MB layout cases, indeed I still use on old RV01, I liked the Alta F1 and was wondering if three will ever be an E-ATX version and so I was rather happy to see this new case, but in all honestly @SilverStone Technology I cannot disagree with everyone sentiment that the skewed mounting points are nonsensical and absolutely bad, and I'm afraid also a fatal flaw which will make all the other engineering efforts toward the creation of a good case completely vain turning this case into a DoA product.

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
"and we shall build a giant case with skewed mounting points everywhere"

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I have an Alta F1, which I am mostly satified with, and I've been looking forward to the launch of Alta F2, whose prototype was shown late last year. I think Alta F2, as now fully unveiled, is Alta F1 rightly evolved.

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.
 
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No 5'25" drive bay(s) = super idiot trend.

Why?

DvD movies
Bluray movies
uhd movies
backup data discs - photos & documents, whatever
music cd albums
dvd pc games
windows install disc
programs
+

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"

Also:
- 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
 
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