Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F - owners opinions? pictures?

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I am potentially looking to move from my Antec P182 case to the Silverstone Sugo SG01B-F as I've always been a fan of SFF just never looked in to them until recently. After discovering that I can keep my current Corsair HX520 PSU and just change mobo if I bought one of these cases I was chuffed lol :p

Just wondered what peoples views on these cases are, owners opinions aftering having it a while? and any pictures if possible too!

Thanks chaps :)
 
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Wow people still buy the SG-01?
The F version is only steel rather than aluminum, and the air flow was never as good as the V3** series if I remember correctly. Spose it depends on money and what you like the look of.
 
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Ah right... fair enough! Well I quite like the Lian Li PC-V351B too. Seems to be good in reviews etc too. Will have to have a look at some more brands.
 
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Still happy with mine, doubles up as my HTPC & Gaming machine, had it going on 4 years now & in all that time my pc's never locked up, overheated or bsod .. touch wood :)
 
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Have had both the Sugo & the Lian Li, personally I found build quality to be much better on the Lian Li but the sugo is slightly easier to install components.

Lian Li for me all the way :)
 
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Ive had a SG02 Evo which is basically the same but without the aluminium front panel i think, was a great matx case only problem for me is the limitation of the cpu cooler, if it had a 120mm fan hole somewhere that allowed h50 use id of kept it
 
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Thanks for the input folks... I am still undecided. The Lian Li is looking good at the mo. Were you not able to find a decent low profile cpu cooler in the end BradMax57?
 
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Thanks for the input folks... I am still undecided. The Lian Li is looking good at the mo. Were you not able to find a decent low profile cpu cooler in the end BradMax57?

I just used a Silverstone NT06-E, it did a decent job tbh but sometimes the heat given off it caused the PSU to get a bit toasty and noisy, ive also had the Lian Li, not the new one but the older one, but i think both are the same in that they are a bit of a pain to fit and remove the side panels, I also found the air flow in the lian li a little lacking as there isnt all that much ventilation through the front panel
 
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Thanks for that... air flow, heat dispersion etc does seem to be the down side to SFF. the 8800GT I have currently, runs very hot so I'd maybe consider a lower power graphics card to go with it. Thanks again!
 
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Thanks for that... air flow, heat dispersion etc does seem to be the down side to SFF. the 8800GT I have currently, runs very hot so I'd maybe consider a lower power graphics card to go with it. Thanks again!

When I had the lian li, I had a 4870 and it did overheat with the side panel on, most the time i left it off, I think the lian li is the nice looking of the 2 and the new v351 does look a bit better than the one i had as far as cooling goes, another choice would be a Sugo SG03, 2 front mounted 120mm fans with good intakes meant my 5850 and i7 kept reasonably cool :D
 
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Blimey, that is a hot card to run in an SFF eh lol! Ah nice one, ta for that, i will look at the Sugo SG03! Nice spec and kept cool, does seem like the Sg03 may be a good choice then. thanks!
 
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well, I have 2 sg01s, which are running SETI@home most of the time
1 is running:
Q6600, GTS250, on a zalman reserator v1.2 watercooling loop, no problems here.
another is running:
i7 920, GTX295, GTX 285 all air cooled with the NT06, the crossflow fan for the SG01 and the 80 mm on the top of the graphics cards.
http://boincstats.com/stats/host_graph.php?pr=sah&id=5280259
this machine. at full tilt, everything is basically at 95+ degrees C, the sides of the case is incredibly hot to touch- got a portable airconditioning unit, and everything is down to about 80 + degrees. Wasn't this bad during winter.....
edit: admittedly those two machines are also running side by side with 2 other machines (1 quad, 1 dual, 1 9800GT, 1 260GTX) in a single bedroom, so ambient definately isn't helping any of the temps one bit.
 
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