For all those who are looking for a designer box and don't mind paying a higher price for a good quality, small-sized product, this newly introduced box comes to look like the Xbox Series X and is looking for a gap, with an excellent appearance, in your living room.
Osmi 3.1, a chassis that will go unnoticed in our house
With a very elegant appearance we find a box that, with its small form factor, forces us to greatly limit the internal components that we can use inside. Apart from being limited by its small volume, we will also be restricted by the inability to install more than one fan, and also we will not be able to opt for the use of liquid refrigeration.
We therefore discard the possibility of using this type of box for those who think of using it to put in high-power components, but which is ideal for all those who want a small box to use it as multimedia for their televisions with components that cover seamlessly perform such tasks as an AMD APU.
It is therefore a perfect computer for the casual gamer who does not want to play AAA games at 4K resolution, but who does want to have a mid-range computer in a very small chassis and with a very simple aesthetic, but at the same time very elegant .
The closed panels on the front and sides are what give it that simple appearance that is ideal for the living room, since the only thing that appears on the front is the manufacturer's logo.
The case has no input or output ports and the power button is located on the back of the box to avoid damaging its aesthetics, with the only available openings located on the top and bottom for cooling internal components. . It has a hole that allows you to install a 140 mm fan, which draws air from outside and blows vertically through the chassis, cooling all internal components.
Designed only for aesthetics and with not very powerful components
It has support for two 2.5-inch storage disks that are hidden behind the motherboard, the power supply is located above the CPU socket and must be a model with the form factor SFX or SFX-L with a depth maximum of 100 millimeters. This more compact power supply design leaves more room for the processor heatsink, which can be up to 70 millimeters high, so either a standard fan or low-profile fans must be installed.
As for the maximum size of graphics support we find a limit of 170 millimeters long and a width of two slots or 42 millimeters, so we can only choose models that can be cooled with a single fan.
For the specifications section, we are facing a box that supports Mini-ITX motherboards in a 180 x 180 x 265 mm chassis with an aluminum construction material and weighing 1.88 kg. This HG Computer Osmi 3.1 is now available in white or black for a price of about 221 euros.
