A1 ITX Computer Case

Excellent case overall. Great build quality and design. I was a bit daunted at first since there were few reviews and it wasn’t from a brand name. I bit the bullet and went for the purchase and can say that I am not disappointed. The main challenge was finding a decent flex PSU to fit in the case. The rest of the process, finding the components and assembling the PC, was a breeze. Note: There is room for a 92MM fan on the top for exhausting hot air. I recommend the Scythe’s slim 92MM fan (a normal one will not fit).

I absolutely love this case. For just about the smallest SFF ITX case you can buy it's also one of the cheapest. They're not trying to gouge people with a $250 price tag. It has everything you need for an ITX build inside the case and nothing more. The PCI-e riser is solid quality. All mounting holes lined up perfectly with all the parts and were fully tapped with the corresponding hardware - which is more than can be said about other cheap cases. It can fit one 92x14mm fan from noctua which I have installed blowing air at the top (it only can mount 2 of the 4 fan holes). I also have the NH-L9i CPU cooler and FSP FLEX ATX 500W power supply. Everything fit with no problem and works perfectly. I would also recommend LPX ram although it might not be necessary depending on the heatsink fin height.

Case works really well for my application (I built a router PC), but my main gripes are that for single slot cards like my NIC, the other PCI slot has no bottom support, so you can press it inwards, and at least with my card, I couldn’t fit a 2.5” SSD no matter how hard I tried, there isn’t enough clearance and the NIC would bend. Other than that, the case is made of really well built aluminum, and includes basically all the screws you’ll need.

I wish I could have had this case earlier. I was previously building a compact PC using Geeek A30 v2 which was also a great chasis with two 15mm fans able to be attached on top (and it was really fun building up the case first), but perhaps due to the material used in Geeek A30 is Acrylic, the thermal performance was just ok. I found and bought this A1 case because an Acrylic support pillar in A30 broke one day and no longer able to support MB stably. I simply transferred my build from A30v2 to this A1 - Asrock Z490 ITX MB with Core i3-10100, ID Cooling IS-30 (this MB and cooler combination would block CPU Fan and Cha Fan pins sitting next to each other, would recommend using Noctua), Crucial Ballistics RAM, Samsung m.2 SSD, Silverstone 500W F-ATX PSU and Gigabyte GTX1650 (GDDR 6 ver.). This case not only supports one 15mm fan attached to the top where there is a screw mount (this was the hardest part during assembly to me, as riser cable runs below the mount and the space between the Alu top panel and mount is almost just 15mm, it needed a bit of effort to use tools to hold the fan when screwing up it), but its Alu case panels also help keeping the PC cool. My i3-10100 runs at 40c when idling and goes up to 70c for heavy duties, thus I would not recommend 8-core or above as cooling solution is minimal in this kind of small cases. The finish of the panels is neat and clean, almost perfect except a tiny bump (shown in the picture). Well thought out layout and sufficient room for cables are truly worthy of mentioning.

Fantastic case for a small pc build. Oddly enough though the 5 stars are more for the quality of packaging the case came in. Most other places would just leve it at the high density foam and the cardboard box, but these guys also added a shrink plastic for extra protection from the elements during transport! Definitely going to look to them down the road for other products!

The product description and item recommendation for for build is accurate. Very sturdy aluminum case, plenty of room to build you mini itx. I created a USB C port right above the USB A connected to 20gbs front panel connection from motherboard to give me more external USB connection.

Both times I ordered this case, the PCIE extender was either faulty or worked but made your PC pick it up as non Nvidia GPU once past post(If it did post). The second time, I could get into windows but the 3050 only allowed 1024x764 or worst for resolution

This case is the perfect size for an ITX build. Cable management is a little tight but is manageable compared to another smaller ITX build I did. The case is also fairly sturdy. The add on of an exhaust fan on the top really helped thermals in the case to. The Pcie riser cable works fine to it came with even though it’s 3.0. The ability to fit something like a single fan GPU is also a plus. The only cons would be the ventilation holes on the case are fairly small and the CPU fan can get a little noisy. The Delivery time was also a bit slow at about 3 weeks from the time I ordered it. Other then that I would highly recommend this case for someone looking for a not to big not to small ITX case.