Silverstone shows off massive TJ12 concept case
Silverstone's TJ12 is only at the concept stage, and may not make it into production, but we hope it does.
The case features the same bottom-to-top cooling design seen in Silverstone’s Raven and Fortress-series cases, but it's built on a completely different scale, with room to comfortably fit up to six dual slot graphics cards with room between each of them.
This is made possible by a series of PCI-E extender daughter-boards into which the graphics cards fit, which then feed back into the PCI-E slots of the motherboard via flexible PCI-E data cables. You can just about see these in the picture of the back/top of the case below, and the arrangement gives the bizarre impression that the graphics cards are floating above the motherboard.
There's also room for a pair of PSUs inside this behemoth of a case, as well as a pair of triple 120mm radiators in the base. Interestingly, Silverstone has also done away with 5.25in and 3.5in mounts inside the TJ12; only 2.5in mounts remain, meaning you’ll need to stock up on SSDs or laptop hard disks if you want to house a system inside the TJ12.
Silverstone also aims to make the top of the case modular. As such, if you didn’t require the mounting points for the extra pair of graphics cards, you could swap these out for an additional PSU mount instead.
Also on show was Silverstone’s new prototype passive CPU cooler, which is huge in its own right but somehow looks reasonably sized inside this case.
Do you hope Silverstone gets around to putting this case into production? How much would you be prepared to pay for a case such as this? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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It's just a shame that, knowing Silverstone, it's likely to very well-made but incredibly expensive.
I would imagine up by default, unless you flip the fans. However the FT02 showed that the flow system in use is really good... For air cooling at least.
And on that farm he had some GTX 580s, E-I-E-I-O!
i know this is a concept...but i really...really want one...
not that it would fit on my desk, nor do i have a system that would half fill it...
but it looks AWESOME!!
i hope they put some 3.5in bays in, and some optical drive bays would be nice to :)
It works. The FT02 has the same setup. The pressure inside the case keeps it moving perfectly fine.
The only problem I see is the lack of a second PSU mount in stock configuration. Right now you're forced to choose between one PSU and up to six GPUs (not enough power if you get higher-end GPUs) or two PSUs and four GPUs (unnecessary you could power four higher-end GPUs with only one higher-end PSU if you wanted to). Putting two PSU mounts side by side would fix this potential problem, and I think could be done without altering the height of this particular case.
Looks awesome, though. If I was ever building a folding rig, this case would be at the top of my list. ;)
- Diosjenin -
It's probably not the first, but if it does make it to production, by god will it be expensive!
With a whoosh whoosh here and a whoosh whoosh there,
Here a whoosh there... wh...eve.. oosh whoosh.
Hang on, I can't even sing the song in my head just thinking about the noise this'll produce!
No. All that power.... going to VGA. Thats just wasteful. I'm guessing the cards are dedicated to farming rather than actual graphics though.
i see 2 psus in pix posted
1 next to the cpu cooler
2 below the first ( with the back facing the camera
also about the exaust fans, there are 2 of them in the pix 1 above the mobo backplate and 1 abouve the gpus :) and dont forget the gpus also act as exausts and air can flow thru the holes in the top of the case as well
Apologies if the article wasn't clear but it comes with two PSU mounts in its stock configuration and three if you swap out the extra expansion slots for the optional mount.
Although the third one doesn't look like a great position.
...NAS server. :D
One of These, perhaps?
On-Topic; That case is MASSIVE. And there's me thinking of the Raven RV02-E to run around on.
id love to see someone mod two together, one housing the hardware and the other for water cooling the lot, that would be special.
Mine goes up to 11
Ahh - yep, you're right. They're using two different PSUs - sneaky little jerks. :P Saw the bottom one, but not the top. Thanks for the correction.
Got it now, thanks. Might be a bit clearer if "you could swap these out for an additional PSU mount instead" became "you could swap these out for a third PSU mount instead," but maybe that's just me.
- Diosjenin -
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Silverstone selling these cases on an OEM basis is kind of silly, but they could start a market of selling pre-built machines to university projects, certainly.
If trend continues the Wii will be able to play that
We were worried that CERN would create a black hole generator... Looks like Silverstone beat them to it with this behemoth!
Seriously, that is £2500 on GFX cards if your in the UK, if you want to watercool them £3200 then the cooling gear on top of that. LAME
Sale price £600+ based on the cost of TJ11. FAIL
To run a rig of this magnitude go turn your iron and kettle on for an hour or so and watch your eleky meter fly. FAIL
I can't see six cards doing much better than two, they still all have to squeeze the data down the same path.
Silverstone designers and execs, get with it.
rant over
You need the hot air to go out of the case from a rad.... not into it.
Silverstone.... hurry up and bring us a true successor to the TJ07..... and I'm not talking about that useless TJ11 expensive monstrosity!!!!!
Ok, rant over......
I want one :D
And I suspect most other people won't either. I can see it being popular with case modders though.
its not a farm any more, It's a pile of smouldering ash.
No, if you look at one of the picture it has 6 ram slots. So it will be an x58, appart from that i cannot say :(
Sadly i think they might be missing the point with this case, if it was full, it would be so heavy it would break your bank, you, and your desk.
seems to have the right heatsinks and slots infact g6pus would still leave 2 slots...
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