SilverStone Fortress FT03-MINI Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅20-06-12
Clearance – CPU, GPU, Cable Management

Clearance is an important factor even with such a small form factor as Mini-ITX, in fact this subject is probably one of the key areas that system builders with this platform seek to know.

Looking at the CPU cooler clearance inside FT03-Mini there is approximately 90mm, the Cooler Master branded ZOTAC heatsink is around 40mm in height. This is spacious and allows for quite a number of well-known CPU coolers including such coolers like Noctua NH-L12 and Zalman CNPS8900 Extreme.


CPU cooler clearance for well-known low profile favourites


Being exactly 10" in length the NVIDIA GTX 680 just about fits inside FT03-Mini but the AMD HD7970 (being slightly bigger) does not. What this means is that there is quite a wide selection of GPUs to select, from the smaller high-end graphics cards like NVIDIA GTX 670, to the slightly bigger and more powerful GTX 680. Available, there is approximately 10” in total graphics card length which is quite surprising for such a compact case, you can easily house quite a powerful system inside this case.


Support for graphics cards up to 10” in length


Behind the HDD cage where most of the cables will sit there is just under 2cm of clearance – allowing you to store unwanted cables behind here.


Clearance behind the HDD cage for cables – just under 2cm


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