Fractal Design has been hitting it out of the park with its PC case designs lately, with its wooden-accented North, Terra, and Period all wowing us with their elegant appears to be like. Now Fractal has seemingly accomplished it once more with the launch of the brand new Fractal Temper, which swaps wood accents for a mild fabric-covered exterior that appears fairly merely gorgeous.
This tiny mini-ITX Fractal case has a footprint of simply 212 x 212mm, making it among the many smallest contenders for a spot on our greatest PC case information, a minimum of when it comes to the desk house it takes up. The case rises to 453mm tall, making it paying homage to the Corsair One sequence of PCs and, in fact, the cylindrical Mac Professional, in addition to a number of different small and tall-style instances. Nonetheless, the Temper needs to be among the many classiest-looking but of this kind.
The material and total coloring of the outer metallic components of the case can be found in both a lightweight or darkish grey, making it appropriate for a variety of kinds. Nonetheless, in case you’re after a window to view your elements or RGB to sync up together with your mouse pad and microphone, this received’t be the case for you.
As an alternative, the material right here wraps all the way in which across the entrance and sides of the case, leaving solely the again uncovered. Right here, as a substitute, there’s an evenly spherical, hole-filled metallic plate that gives direct air flow on your vertically-mounted graphics card.
The material additionally gives some air flow, and pure mud filtration together with it, however the entire fabric-covered part doesn’t act as an air consumption. The perimeters are in actual fact blanked off, so it’s solely the entrance cloth part that gives air flow.
Offering the push and pull for that air circulation is one huge 180mm fan that sits on the highest of the case – once more much like the Corsair One and Mac Professional. This fan pushes air out the highest of the case and depends on these aspect grilles to then present the consumption for the airflow.
Slide off all the outer casing and inside there’s room for a mini-ITX motherboard with 114mm of CPU cooler peak clearance, which does go away room for some low-profile air coolers, however means an AIO cooler can be a smart choice. To that finish, there’s room for as much as a 280mm radiator which sits on the entrance of the case, behind the entrance air flow grille.
The motherboard is vertically oriented, so that you truly lose any direct entry to its in-built IO ports. As an alternative, cables plug in beneath the case, whereas the case’s entrance panel has three USB ports and a headphone jack, together with the ability button.
A small kind issue SFX energy provide is required, however solely graphics playing cards as much as 325mm in size could be housed. Which means delights such because the cutest graphics card ever can simply match contained in the case, in addition to a lot bigger playing cards, together with any that conform to Nvidia’s new SFF-Prepared certification. These use a PCIe 4.0 riser cable to permit the cardboard to take a seat on the rear of the case.
There’s additionally room to mount two 2.5-inch SSDs or arduous drives, however we suggest getting a mini-ITX motherboard with a minimum of two M.2 SSD connectors to get entry to giant and quick SSDs, whereas additionally minimizing cable muddle.
The Fractal Temper launch date is ready for June 28, 2024 and its value is $149. That’s a premium value, significantly for such a small case, nevertheless it appears to be like cheap for what’s on supply.
Whereas we wait to get our fingers on the Fractal Temper, you’ll be able to take a look at our Fractal Torrent assessment to see how the corporate’s extra conventional case designs maintain up.
