Build in the Dan A4-SFX

[tsk]

Hello everyone

Today I got my Dan A4-SFX case delivered from Germany and I thought I'd make a post on my build in it.

Surprisingly small shipping box

Spoiler

It's very small in person

Spoiler

Just the skeleton, getting ready to put parts in!

Spoiler

The parts 

Spoiler

But where is the storage you might ask

Spoiler

Starting with the motherboard

Spoiler

Next up is the GPU, lots of space for the reference AMD card here.

Spoiler

The case was not designed with the Corsair SF series in mind, the PSU power plug is angled the wrong way for this connector, making for a really tight fit with the cable.

Spoiler

All the parts in place

Spoiler

Thoughts after build:
For such a small case, it's really easy to build in, putting everything together only took me 20 minutes. The only issue I encountered was the PSU power cable extender as shown in the picture, I had to plug this in before mounting the PSU. The PCIe riser cable is of excellent quality and is operating at 16x. 
I would have liked something thicker and sturdier than the thin piece plastic separating the GPU from the PSU, nonetheless it functions as intended.

Personally I would rate this case as the best SFF case on the market at the moment, it's small yet fits all the components you need for a powerful desktop computer.
Thanks to Daniel Hansen @dondan for creating this case through kickstarter.


Speclist:
CPU - Intel Pentium G4400(Skylake)
GPU - AMD Radeon RX480 8GB
Storage - Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB
PSU - Corsair SF450
MB - Gigabyte B150N Phoenix
RAM - HyperX Fury 2133MHz 8GB

[Droidbot]

awh, it's so cute

 

too bad that case can't fit a radiator and a 1070 full length

[stratege1401]

how you plan to use it ?... 

[tsk]

3 minutes ago, stratege1401 said:

how you plan to use it ?... 

I use it as my main computer, mainly for browsing, office work and playing Rocket League.
It's a downgrade from my X99 system which was too big and had way more power than I needed.

[Guest]

nice. I was waiting so long for this case. But in the end I took an other small form factor case... I think this case has just one major flaw for gamers. It just supports an extreme small CPU-Cooler. A Noctua l9i doesn't cool enough for 70+ watts cpus... 

 

And i think the Silverstone AR-06 won't fit in this am i right? 

 

But in the end its still an awesome case... i would have liked to have this too

[tsk]

27 minutes ago, cmprinho said:

nice. I was waiting so long for this case. But in the end I took an other small form factor case... I think this case has just one major flaw for gamers. It just supports an extreme small CPU-Cooler. A Noctua l9i doesn't cool enough for 70+ watts cpus... 

 

And i think the Silverstone AR-06 won't fit in this am i right? 

 

But in the end its still an awesome case... i would have liked to have this too

Linus put a 145W TDP Xeon E5-2699 v4 on a relatively small copper heatsink in this case, worked like a charm  

[Droidbot]

30 minutes ago, cmprinho said:

nice. I was waiting so long for this case. But in the end I took an other small form factor case... I think this case has just one major flaw for gamers. It just supports an extreme small CPU-Cooler. A Noctua l9i doesn't cool enough for 70+ watts cpus... 

 

And i think the Silverstone AR-06 won't fit in this am i right? 

 

But in the end its still an awesome case... i would have liked to have this too

Well, you can game quite well on a locked i7 7700, which is 65w.. 

 

 

[tsk]

A pic to better get a sense of size, next to Xbox one controller and 1.5 liter coke bottle.

 

Spoiler