Spire released a new small chassis that looks quite stylish and they call it the PowerCube 715. This cube chassis can hold a micro-ATX or a mini-ITX motherboard along with a standard sized ATX power supply. There is even a 420W power supply included with the PowerCube 715.
The small chassis has room for two 3.5-inch hard disk drives next to the motherboard and PSU. The front panel has both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 connectors next to the HD audio 3.5mm jacks, but that’s also about the highlights when it comes to this chassis. It’s certainly not anything special feature wise, but it fulfills the basic needs and couple look quite good on an office desk.
I have doubts that the Spire PowerCube 715 will find a lot of fans among our enthusiast readers, especially with the included un-rated power supply. Most people would rather pick their own PSU and then the extra money paid or the package deal would be a waste. The Spire PowerCube 715 comes with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of €64,95.
Would you want to build a system with this new Spire chassis or do you have better suggestions for our readers that want to build a stylish and compact system? Let us know in the comments.
Nice looking case, not sure about the internal layout, though. I’ve just built a new system with the Lian-Li PC-V359 and it was an absolute dream to wire up:
CPU: i5 6600
CPU Cooler: Corsair H110i
Mobo: ASUS Z170M-PLUS
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 32GB (4 x 8GB) 2133Mhz
GPU: EVGA Classified 980 Ti
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 750W
M.2 SATA SSD: Samsung SM951 512GB
SSD #1: OCZ Agility 3 240GB
SSD #2: Corsair Force Gs 128GB
HDD #1: Western Digital 1Tb 7200rpm
HDD #2: Samsung 750GB 5400rpm
Usb HDD: Seagate 2Tb
Only issue I had was the case only supports 1 x Slim ODD, I imagine it was a design decision as a normal 3.5″ drive would spoil the aesthetic, but still awkward for those of us who still need physical media from time to time.
Other that, the only downside to the build was graphics card length allowance. The case supports up to 310mm, which ruled out the MSI Lightning 980 Ti and the ASUS STRIX Ti cards.