In recent years, ITX chassis has been lively again, in addition to the joint force, cool cold these big factories produced, there are also many player brands to do some fun products, after all, ITX chassis is not as rigid as ATX, play and personalized attributes can be more, leaving player brands have more room to play, of which aboStudio is a more famous player brand, their ITX chassis design is unique, the material "madness", is also deeply loved by many players, Recently they brought a Container XS, an ITX chassis that focuses more on miniaturization.
Container is a new series of aboStudio, they launched the Container M last year, which is a relatively compact air-cooled ITX chassis, and this Container XS (hereinafter referred to as CXS) has switched to the external DC power supply, so the overall is much smaller, the size data is 248 * 248 * 106mm, yes, it is just a square on the side.
To say that the structural design of CXS is actually very simple, the entire chassis has only three parts, divided into the main body and two side panels on the left and right, all of which are made of 6061 aluminum, the CNC cutting process is very flat, and the surface is sandblasted and anodized, so it looks and feels quite high-quality.
In terms of design, CXS is made concave and convex, and the side panel has a large area of honeycomb-like hidden openings, which may not be liked by everyone, but compared to just a simple heat dissipation opening, this does not look so dense phobia, visually friendlier, but also more stylish.
Of course, aboStudio's chassis is a big selling point, or its exaggerated material, the thickest part of the CXS body reaches 9.98mm, the side panel also has a thickness of 8.6mm, almost twice as thick as many other aluminum ITX chassis, this degree of material, should be able to make those who like thick practical materials give a thumbs up, can't help but pop up nice.
Another indispensable feature is that the CXS also continues the mechanical shaft boot key that aboStudio loves, which is placed on the back of the chassis, so that every time you open the computer, it gives you the illusion of launching a missile... This is also the only button in the entire chassis, and there are no other buttons or interfaces before and after.
In terms of heat dissipation support, this small chassis is also doing a good job, CXS on the CPU radiator height limit is 66mm, the ITX chassis heat dissipation has studied the player, should know that this is already a relatively generous specification, some of the larger down-pressure air cooling is also compatible, and at the top of the chassis there is a 9cm fan position, with the two sides of the board of the hive opening, the heat dissipation design is more reasonable, there will be less than a small box heating problem.
As for the internal design of the chassis, CXS will install the ITX motherboard on the right side panel, so the installation is also super convenient, and it is rare to provide two PCI-E slots, for the half-height size (limited to 225mm), mainly used to install some PCI SSD expansion cards, video capture cards, of course, you can also install semi-high graphics cards, such as NVIDIA RTX A2000 such as half-height professional cards, will be very suitable.
However, in the power supply part, CXS installation ITX motherboard needs to be used with DC-ATX power supply, if you do not trust this type of power supply, you can also choose thin ITX (thin Mini-ITX), this motherboard board contains DC 19V power support, there are already H610 chipset of the thin ITX motherboard, can be up to the latest 12th generation Core CPU, so use CXS to install a main machine, are achievable.
It's just that the vast majority of thin ITX motherboards can not expand the graphics card, currently only a GA-IMB410TN is with PCI-E x16 slot, fortunately, the H410 chipset can support the 10th generation Core CPU, and then with a semi-high graphics card, such a combination to cope with some simple content creation and online games, there will not be much problem.
AboStudio This Container XS is priced at 999 yuan, of course, it is not cheap in the current ITX chassis, but from the perspective of design concept, workmanship quality and materials, it can still make you feel that the price is reasonable, and such an ITX small chassis actually has very few choices, for those who want to create a personalized high-end small computer, or as a computing node in the studio, players with these aspects of demand should know how to appreciate it.