Silverstone Fortress FT05 Case Review: Stack Effect Cooling, Less Wasted Space

[Camaxide]

Why would you need an 850w power supply for SLI? The GTX980 are even more efficient than their predecessors, unless you ran a Titan SLI setup together with a socket 1366 i7 980X you would be hard pressed to need that much power.
In my experience you can build a setup around the socket 1150 that is easily as powerful in 95% of all applications as a much more expensive socket 2011 solution while using a lot less power and freeing up so much money that you can buy a second graphics card for that. (and I am building around 2-3 high-end machines per month at work).
Plus a setup like this will run beautifully with a GOOD 650W psu, I recommend the current BeQuiet Dark Power Pro series. Not that bulky, but silent and efficient. We tested it with dual HD7970s and a i7 3770K and it didn't break a sweat.

One reason is if you want a silent system at idle, where larger psu's allow for fanless operation at a higher watt usage than smaller ones. For a living-room computer that is nice, and one of the reasons I look for a case with this orientation and airflow

 

[Camaxide]

"It seems strange that a computer case with support for three full-length graphics cards alongside massive air-coolers is so unexpectedly limited when it comes to the power supply."

Cmon man, thats part of the reason for this case-maximizing the space& keeping it slim and efficient. It's not meant to be a roomy behemoth. We have plenty of those and while SFF cases are all the rage now this is a nice hybrid where you can use a full size ATX without having to get a new desk.

Furthermore, all these neophytes think 1200W & 1500W PSUs are needed. Even with SLI, if you get a good 660w or 750W with the more important specs that are beyond the scope of this comment, you're good to go. This "my PSU wang is bigger & better" mentality only gives you and inflated sense of your PSUs endowments, enriches the PSU OEMs and your electric company.

Where are the behemots with this case orientation with new setups like new standard usb's ? I can't seem to find any other cases than the Ft and Rv doing this yet :/ For me space isnt an issue, no cases excisting matching what I want is my actual problem