Torrent Nano!

[suedseefrucht]

Summary

New high airflow cases Fractal Design Torrent Nano and Torrent Compact.

 

My thoughts

A dream coming true for team air cooling!

I have been looking for a case like this for a long time:

ATX power supply with big fan for low noise,

big air cooler support,

solid top panel to whipe off dust easiely,

big 3 slot 335 mm graphics card support (except for the 4.5 slot NOCTUA RTX 3070 from ASUS)

No waste of space!

 

Who else is excited?

 

Quote

Simply put, the new models are powerhouses that let you enjoy airflow to a degree normally associated with larger cases, making Torrent an excellent choice for air cooling aficionados looking for a compact or nano case.

 

Sources

Torrent Nano — Fractal Design (fractal-design.com)

Streamlined airflow in new Torrents — Fractal Design (fractal-design.com)

 

[Levent]

It even has no glass side panel version.

Spoiler

 

[LogicalDrm]

@suedseefrucht, this thread lacks the proper Tech News format. Since Fractal has press release, you can use that as basis and update your post. Otherwise, thread will be moved to Cases and Mods. https://www.fractal-design.com/streamlined-airflow-in-new-torrents/

 

Picture(s) since its case, should be more than welcome.

[DoctorNick]

Sweet! I love fractal.. I've used: Arc mini, Arc midi r2, Focus G, Define R6

[dizmo]

Kind of a big boy for an itx enclosure. 

[Vanderburg]

Instead of Nano, they should have called it the "Torrent Micro", or "Micro Torrent". Maybe they could have even done something clever, like use the Mu symbol for micro, like "µ Torrent", or µTorrent. Yeah, they should call it the µTorrent.

[Stahlmann]

If i'd be building a PC atm this would likely be my choice for a case. But seeing how the market generally sucks atm i don't have any builds to do for me or my friends...

[TVwazhere]

To me the more exciting version is the Compact. It retains many of the features of the original Torrent, but downsizes  the overall space (and some storage) but keeps dual 180mm airflow fans.

https://www.club386.com/fractal-design-torrent-compact-chassis-review/

 

Main differences from the Full size:

• three 140mm bottom fans have been omitted entirely, leaving only the two 180mm fans. Not exactly an airflow powerhouse anymore but leaves you room to choose your own 120/140mm fans for the bottom.
• 3.5" drive bays down to QTY 1 (from QTY 2)
• 2.5" Drive bays down to QTY 3 (from QTY 4)
• Lower total possible fan count, but front panel is swappable with 120/140mm fan rail options. 
• Reduces motherboard size to E-ATX [274mm] (From SSI-EEB)
• Reduces GPU Length to 330mm with front fans (From 423)
• Reduces CPU Tower cooler height to 174mm (From 188)
• Reduces RAD space to 360/280 Front and 240/280 bottom (From 360/420 for both)
• Reduces cable space to 20mm (From 32)
• Price is $149 USD for all non RGB models, and $169 for RGB Models (From 199/229)

Total Volume is 46.6L (From 69.7L; almost exactly a 1/3rd size reduction)

 

6 hours ago, suedseefrucht said:

I have been looking for a case like this for a long time:

ATX power supply with big fan for low noise,

big air cooler support,

solid top panel to whipe off dust easiely,

big 3 slot 335 mm graphics card support (except for the 4.5 slot NOCTUA RTX 3070 from ASUS)

No waste of space!

As an owner of the Corsair 380T, I'd argue that there's a lot of wasted space in cases like this compared to something like a Dancase, Fractal's own Node 202 or a Velka 5. I personally love my case and was disappointed when the Coolermaster H100 was a a poorly designed modernized version of that, The SFF market looks at these with a critical eye for size management, and typically don't care about using larger coolers or ATX power supplies when the reason they're building a smaller case is for the case to actually be smaller. 

[suicidalfranco]

Is it smaller than or same size as the bitfenix prodigy case?

[boiled4safety]

I think this is great and I'm starting to warm up to the attic psu placement it works really well in this case. 

 

Perfect timing too as a family member is asking me to build them a small form factor machine, this looks like a good option for a case! 

[PeachGr]

Kitguru had a video that is taking about the good and the bad sides of the case. Overall, it's an awesome design, but not everything is perfect

[Mihle]

If this had existed when I got my Meshify C Mini, I might have considered it, it looks nice, but it's also larger than Meshify C Mini so not sure if it had changed my choice.

[GhostRoadieBL]

It's an itx case the siza of many matx cases, not sure it's worth it to sacrifice expansion in the same footprint

[Elijah Kamski]

I like it, I love it!

 

But my wallet says otherwise after looking at the massive price!

 

I'll stick to my side of the road hard rubbish sleeper case thanks.