BitFenix Portal Black SFX PSU Support Aluminium Design Mini ITX Case (BFC-POT-150-KKXKK-RP)

This case looks so much better in person. The footprint is smaller than a midtower but larger than a traditional mini itx case. It is sleek and smooth all around and you can really feel the quality in the metal unibody frame. The sliding rail is a great feature locking all the important pieces inside suspended away from the walls. I wanted a case that my brother could easily bring over when he visits each summer. The design and materials means transportation is worry free of bumps and dings. The top window will house an RGB 1070 which is much needed to really highlight the only window. You do have to be careful in selecting your internals such as an SFX psu and an AIO 120 cooler but the tradoff is worth it in the end result. It looks small and cute but feels solid and secure. The portal and storm trooper cues open up some great design options as well. Will add pics once the build is complete but overall i'm glad Bitfenix isn't afraid to leabe the comfort of the trendy norms to give consumors more creative freedom. Look at every other new case... plastic...tempered glass rectangle boxes.

Finally built PC after a long time of my purchase of this case and boy, i don't know where to start.First of all, for a first timer, you're going to spend hours, while doing a simple cable management, and believe me, it really needs a good cable management.The cooling is so horrible that you need to somehow make enough free space for air to circulate around it, otherwise, it becomes a small microwave for all of your parts. The strange thing, which i found is that engineer/s made a nice filter on all four corners, for air circulation and cooling, but then they put another wide layer of metal with tiny holes after these filter, so the air doesn't enter normally inside the case. Sort of the same thing is constructed in the PSU area. When you put the PSU with a fan faced down, you see that the main carcass, which holds all parts has holes under PSU, but then there is a wide rail road, which makes some difficulties for the air to escape. The fun thing about it is that they made holes underneath the case, but, as there's a rail road, the air doesn't come out straight from the mentioned holes. The back of the case begs for two 80mm fans instead of either one 80mm or two 40mm fans. I've replaced OEM fans, which come with a case and even with industrial Noctua fans, put an AIO water cooler on CPU, and it's still not enough, so i'm seriously considering about modding this case. To let you see the whole picture, i'll list all of the parts, which i use in this case.Video Card: MSI RX 580 Armor MK2RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200CPU: Ryzen 1700X 3.4GhzPSU: SilverStone SX800-LTI 800W, SFX-L, 80 Plus PlatinumMotherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 ITXRadiator: DeepoCool Captain 120EX WhiteStorage: Seagate 2.5 2TB FireCuda and HP EX920 M.2 NVMeFans: Noctua NF-F12 iPPC-3000 PWM and NF-A8 PWMThe main concern is not the CPU and RAM, but instead motherboard's VRMs, GPU and possibly PSU. When you try to play some heavy games, VRMs stay on 80 and slowly crawl to 90, while GPU stays on 80-89 without dropping or getting higher. Now, i know that all ITX cases have trouble with cooling things, but the thing is, the size of the case is not so small if you can put AIO water cooler and put GPU without any riser extender inside of it.

A fun, interesting case. Not hard to build in. Used a cooler master 120mm AIO, with a BeQuiet! fan, and a Corsair Sfx psu. The computer is basically inaudible during normal use.

This small case is absolutely incredible. Very easy to work with, very good looking and polished. As far as what you can build in this, you could build a very powerful machine, but the airflow for anything that powerful is just not there. This is much better suited for a medium to low power machine to run sliently.

We don't like to build standard type case computers. You can make the inside almost anything you want but what you have to look at every day is the case. This case gives you plenty of room to build what you want and if you get the version with the window on top you can still build some ARGB lighting effects on the inside.UPDATE- After building the only word for this case is "Nightmare". The pieces go together OK but then you slide the interior back in and the fun begins. The wires from the case are so long and they have nowhere to go so they either get caught in the front 120mm fan or are stressed to the point the connections are severed. Finished the build and pushed the power button, and the first time ever in several years of building - NOTHING! Apparently in routing the wires the power button became disconnected at the case end. Took everything apart and repaired that, finally getting the unit to post. Next issue was the CPU temps. At idle couldn't get them below 50°C even with the supplied fans running at 85% speed.SOLUTIONReplaced the front 120mm fan with a Noctua 120mm Industrial (can run at 3000 rpm) and replaced the single 80mm back fine with "gerry rigging" two 80mm Noctua fans. Changed all the PWM fan curves to start immediately and progressively run faster sooner. Changed the GPU's fans to run at lower temp. Finally went into the bios and changed the CPU voltage (i9 processor rated at 125 watts) so it ran at a maximum 90 watts. Finally got idle temps down to 35° to 39°. Acceptable I know but we normally like our gaming units to idle at 30° to 34° to leave plenty of room for performance.Bottom line only tackle this case as a general computer that will not be stressed because it will overheat at full-out gaming unless you do the modifications similar to what we did.

Built pretty good, easy to build in due to the open nature of it, would buy again.

It has poor ventilation, and mini-ITX builds are already very hot. Cable management is a pain.I would recommend that you stay away from this case unless you want to mod it, or REALLY need the looks of this case.The one nice thing is that you can run it with the mobo tray slide open a bit for 20C temp difference.

Sehr schöne Gehäuse aber leider ist das kein itx

L'estetica e' il suo punto di forza, unita ad una qualita' costruttiva eccellente con materiali e finiture al top, esterno tutto in alluminio, verniciatura "bugnata" spettacolare.Non e' il piu' compatto, il piu performante nel raffreddamento o il piu' versatile case per miniITX in circolazione....Ma e' una ottima alternativa alle solite scontate forme a cubetto e con la sua flessibilita' di configurazione se ne puo' fare un ottimo HTPC/home server da esporre orgogliosamente nel salotto o una potente workstation/gaming rig da far troneggiare sulla scrivania.Se poi si e' anche fan di un certo gioco...

Ich habe mir dieses Gehäuse wegen des einzigartigen Designs gekauft, weil mir ich es einfach super finde, dass man die Grafikkarte von oben durch das Fenster sehen kann. Ich muss aber sagen, dass die Kühlung herausfordernd ist, da es ziemlich wenige Lufteinlässe im Gehäuse gibt. Die mitgeschickten Lüfter sind ziemlich laut und wurden deshalb durch welche von be quiet ersetzt. Dafür einen Stern Abzug. Den anderen Stern habe ich abgezogen, weil die Lieferung eine ganze Woche gebraucht hat, obwohl es "Premium" Versand war. Eine Woche ist einfach zu lange.

Endlich ein Wohnzimmergehäuse das nicht direkt nach PC ausschaut.Ich fasse meine Meinung kurz zusammen - ich habe extra das weise Case ohne Window bestellt.Mit Plastikfenster oben ist es so eine Geschmacksache. Erstens man sieht die ganzen Kabel und 2ens muss man schon direkt von oben ins Case hineinschauen um die Karte zu sehen (Diese liegt recht weit unterhalb des Windows).Ohne Plastik schaut das Gehäuse sehr solide und clean aus.+/- Lieferung ~5 Tage+ Verarbeitung - Hochwertig (Case weiß / kein Window)+/- Die Schiene zum herausziehen ist ein wenig wacklig und man weis nie so recht wann alles eingerastet ist+ I/O Kabelstränge lang genug- Wird eine AIO Wasserkühlung verwendet, so muss die obere SSD Festplattenhalterung leider weichen da es sonst mit der GraKa nicht passt+ sehr sehr leise im Betrieb (davor hatte ich ein MidATX mit sehr guter Belüftung)+ GraKa wird in diesem Gehäuse bei mir 2 Grad wärmer als im großen ATX. Liegt immer so um die 58-/61 im Idle (Ab 61 gehen die GraKalüfter leicht an und schalten sich dann wieder aus. Im großen ATX waren die Lüfter immer aus im Desktopbetrieb. Die 400 RPM hört man aber auch nicht wirklich....Eingebaut:- XEON 1230V3- AsRock Z97E-ITX/ac- ARCTIC Liquid Freezer 120 (Breiter Radiator ! -> Lüfter PushPull getaucht auf Noctua NF-P12 PWM -> die laufen unhörbar mit 700RPM...bei 1300RPM MAX dann auch)- Noctua NF-A8 FLX 80mm hinten (läuft im Idle mit 750 RPM / 2000 MAX)- MSI 1060 6g -> Hier kommt jetzt noch eine 1080TI rein. (Achtung nicht jede TI passt in das Gehäuse).System ist absolut flüsterleise / Temperaturen alle im Grünen bereich.