Silverstone has launched a brand new compact desktop case in its Milo household. The Silverstone ML11 is not but listed on the agency’s official product pages (Milo fashions solely go as much as 10 in response to the household album), however it’s on the market (opens in new tab) at China’s electronics retailer JD.com. In short, this can be a 10-liter Micro ATX low-profile desktop case with slimline optical drive bay. Photos present the ML11 in each horizontal desktop and tower orientations. Within the former setup it seems to be like an old-school piece of stereo tools.
If you’re not acquainted with Silverstone circumstances, the corporate provides all kinds of sizes and kinds, but it surely appears to have one thing of a penchant for compact residence theater PC (HTPC) case designs. Many Silverstone designs shall be horizontally oriented desktops, and fairly compact. Usually they’re designed to sit down beside Hello-Fi and AV separates, with out wanting misplaced. The Silverstone Milo ML11 follows this unassuming type.
With out an official product web page from Silverstone, we do not have an in depth specs checklist. However the Chinese language retailer, and ITHome, have shared a number of the necessities. To start with, we’ve got a number of stats concerning the dimension. The measurements of this case are 330 x 110 x 285mm, and the capability is 10.35 liters. Keep in mind, this can be a low-profile design, so any growth playing cards (there are 4 slots on the again) must be low-profile playing cards, or include a low-profile bracket choice.
Inside this case, you possibly can match a Micro ATX motherboard, which will provide you with loads of alternative over platform. If you’re pondering of including a graphics card to this construct, there’s room for GPUs as much as 10.6 inches (27cm) lengthy. That ought to imply it is advantageous for almost each low-profile single and twin fan graphics card design accessible. Not that there have been many gaming-focused low-profile playing cards in recent times.
Different elements you possibly can match on this ~10 liter machine embody: a CPU cooler as much as 90mm in peak, two 2.5-inch drive and one 3.5-inch storage gadget, the aforementioned slimline ODD, two case followers (max 80mm) and a Flex-ATX energy provide.
The inside of the case seems to be fairly easy, however there is not a lot area for intricate or fussy design right here, and it clearly is not designed to be to be filled with high-end elements for its low-profile HTPC duties.
Trying on the case from the entrance, you possibly can see Silverstone has a provision for an upper-central positioned slimline optical disc drive (ODD). This resolution suits in with shoppers deploying these circumstances as HTPCs. On the lower-right of the case there are (from left to proper) 4 USB-A ports, a headphone/mic jack, a system energy mild, and an influence/reset button with an exercise mild beneath.
On the Chinese language retail website, this compact Micro ATX PC case is alleged to be accessible for 299 Yuan, which is roughly $45. We haven’t any particulars about availability or pricing exterior of China on the time of writing.
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