Morpho - New Nexus case

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Morpho - New Nexus case

Post by Sooty » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:51 pm

Tiny ATX/MicroATX design, but being alu, no doubt more style than silence potential.

http://www.nexustek.nl/morpho_premium_a ... c_case.htm

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Post by Sooty » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:14 pm

Very similar style to Soldam cases (Soldam went bust, IIRC).

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Post by derekva » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:40 pm

The fan grilles look awfully restrictive...

Neat look / layout, though. :D

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Post by nightmorph » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:52 pm

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Post by Bluefront » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:54 am

Nice looking.......but. This case is designed exactly like so many others that were complete flops in the cooling department. Just how does Nexus expect enough air to enter the case through the small opening at the bottom of the front bezel? You have the PSU fan blowing out, the rear case fan blowing out, the front fan blowing in, and all are sucking through some sort of filter stuck in a restricted bezel arrangement that is probably a bear to remove for filter cleaning.

Even without a filter, and the restrictive rear fan hole opened up.....this case will run hot unless your components are the coolest possible. Forget a hot video card, forget multiple hard drives, forget an even moderately hot CPU. Maybe forget Nexus...... :lol:

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Post by Sooty » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:00 am

nightmorph wrote:Potential airflow problem: notice that there seems to be none at all in the top half of the case?
There should be a second blue arrow on that first photo, because the PSU will suck airflow across the mobo and graphics card.

Looks like I was wrong about Soldam, this site seems active: http://www3.soldam.co.jp/ Having checked Soldam’s site, I’m even more convinced the Morpho is made by them.

One anomaly between those Morpho pics is the drive bay cover screws – visible in the 2nd pic, but not in the 3rd pic. Again, those scews are another styling clue to Soldam.
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Post by Sooty » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:02 am

Bluefront wrote:Nice looking.......but. This case is designed exactly like so many others that were complete flops in the cooling department. Just how does Nexus expect enough air to enter the case through the small opening at the bottom of the front bezel? You have the PSU fan blowing out, the rear case fan blowing out, the front fan blowing in, and all are sucking through some sort of filter stuck in a restricted bezel arrangement that is probably a bear to remove for filter cleaning.

Even without a filter, and the restrictive rear fan hole opened up.....this case will run hot unless your components are the coolest possible. Forget a hot video card, forget multiple hard drives, forget an even moderately hot CPU. Maybe forget Nexus...... :lol:
I agree, but try telling that to the alu-fan-boys :roll: That's the only reason I posted it, because it's 'made' by Nexus.

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Post by JazzJackRabbit » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:17 am

When I saw this thread I thought it would be something like Nexus Breeze, otherwise why would it be posted on SPCR? Needless to say I'm disappointed... :)

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Post by nightmorph » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:17 pm

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Post by Aris » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:10 pm

this isnt a nexus case. i saw this exact same case on some japaneese site over a year ago, and it was only being sold in japan. all nexus did was rebadge and redistribute it in other countries.

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Post by Vanseb » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:32 pm

Abee, AS serie ; but there's some differences, which seems to be demand by Nexus.

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Post by Vanseb » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:17 am

Here's the webpage of the Abbe S1R.
Here you can show the internal layout of the Abee, to compare with the Morpho. It's a same, except some little modification.

If it's the same, that's not a problem for me. Abee cases are very stylish (it's my opinion), but not available for european market. Nexus just give us them. Love it ^^ I think it'd be a great case for µATX mobo, fot thoose who don't want a cube case. But the price will be a great high.

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Post by Sooty » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:52 am

So what's the relationship between Abbe and Soldam, because they're very similar style, including anodised insides.

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Post by christopher3393 » Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:11 pm

Now available in black: http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std ... orpho_case Note there are side vents that can mount up to 2 120mm fans. The upper one might keep GPU's from frying. It also seems that this is best used as an matx case.

Only one review: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/nexus_ ... inum_case/

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