SilverStone Technology SST-SG12B-V2 Micro-ATX Small Form Factor with Aluminum Front Panel Cases

Very sturdy small case design capable of accommodating an large new video card. You can feel the quality of the case when installing components. No sharp edges anywhere inside the case to cut you either. I have build many computers over the years and this is probably the best small case that I have ever used. Highly recommend this product!

I wanted to go to a smaller box for my server and this one fit the bill. I have 6 drives in it and room for more.Since it is smaller than the towers it is very cozy in there - I had to reroute some cables because of the space, but it appears worth it.Definitely get two 80 mm fans to help with the cooling.I would buy it again

Regularly going up to 85 degrees C. Great handle though.

Decent, highly portable case, once I figured out how to fit everything. Lacking refinements found in my old case.I got this mini-ITX case after researching a lot of options out there, with the intention of rebuilding my desktop tower, which was in a Corsair Carbide 400R. I wanted something more portable, but still top-end power, for VR hackathons and the like. Smaller mini-ITX cases that I looked at wouldn't support full-sized GPUs. And while this Silverstone Sugo SG12 does in the end work, it was not without some sacrifices and unconventional layout that I managed to make it happen.The SG12 seems, initially, to be highly configurable, having a modular drive bay which could accommodate several drives, in addition to the mounting area which I used to house two 2.5" SSDs and a 3.5" HDD directly below (which is the area allowing for one front-facing optical drive, alternatively). Speaking of the 3.5 drive, this case does not come with adapter brackets to fit the 3.5 drive in the optical bay, so plan to purchase that if you want this configuration.What I found when I started to layout my build, though, is that removable drive bay, and the entire case, isn't really modular in any useful sense. The drive bay can be removed entirely (which I had to do to make room for the GPU), but it doesn't fit anywhere else in the case. The case as a whole is quite fixed in layout, and you either use the spaces as they're designed, or don't use them at all.The most bewildering aspect of this case -- and which takes a whole star off this review -- is that the official SiverStone product page (http://silverstonetek.com/product.php?area=en&pid=540) recommends the NT06-PRO CPU cooler, so I dutifully purchased that for my build. However, it *does not fit*. Full stop. The NT06-PRO, when I tried to put it into place, was physically pressing against the PSU above it. And the fan that comes with the NT06-PRO would not fit *at all*. Even if it had fit, it would be venting air upward -- directly into the PSU. I returned the NT06-PRO and ended up purchasing a Corsair H100i v2. Which leads to the next problem:The SG12 case fits full-sized GPUs. I have additional clearance in the longest dimension for the 1080 which I installed. *However*, the modular drive bay mentioned above has no clearance for plugged-in drive cables, with a large GPU in place. I ended up removing the drive bay entirely and using the empty space for cables. Because, in additional to not fitting the drive bay, there are almost no options for placing the fan of a water-pipe CPU cooler. And since there's no clearance above the CPU itself (due to the PSU), you basically have to use a water-cooled cooler, if you're installing a powerful CPU.Here's where things really get wonky. The Corsair H100i v2 which I used wouldn't work on the side nearest the CPU, since the case doesn't have air venting for the Corsair's two fans (granted, I could have used a single-radiator version like the H90, but trust me, you're still going to have trouble with the fit). What I had to do was route the Corsair's fans around the GPU, and mount it on the other side of the GPU from the motherboard, venting outward. And it basically doesn't have enough room for this. I managed to close the case, with the Corsair fan system squeezed between the case wall and the GPU *very carefully*. The GPU's fans are venting directly into the Corsair's fans and radiators, and only with care was I able to ensure the screw heads of the two fan assemblies don't touch the fan blades of the other assembly. Sure, I know some people remove the fans from the GPU itself and then water-cool *that*, so maybe a more enterprising case-builder than I will have better luck.Finally, with the Corsair's radiator and fan assembly sitting aside the GPU, there's no mounting hardware for it. So it was squeezed in place, but otherwise free-floating. After a while in this arrangement, I realized that I could attach screws to the radiator assembly from outside the case, and thereby anchor the radiator to the case itself. I'm actually fine with this and feel it is fairly secure, but you might find it tacky or sketchy AF, which would be entirely understandable. I've included pictures of this so you can see what I mean (two steel screw-heads on the side of the case).The case also lacks refinements which you'll find in other brands, such as air filtering. Thus, I added my own black plastic mesh (and black foam just for sound/airflow dampening), taped to the inside of the case walls. Otherwise, dust would freely enter through the large-diameter holes in the case walls. The PSU didn't sit quite correctly against the back wall of the case, and as a result I had to angle the screws to even get them to fit.I'm pretty mixed on this case, overall. My setup is solid once built, and certainly portable. I have a high-end PC in a compact and stylish housing. But the lack of options, refinements, and mis-match on product recommendations really detract from the product overall. It feels a bit like a first-iteration of a new design that might get better with time (and feedback like this). Overall score is about 2.5 stars.