Thursday, November 17th 2022
Fractal Announces the Ridge SFF Chassis
Meet Ridge—an uncluttered, small form factor case designed to integrate seamlessly into people's living spaces and daily rituals. Developed for gaming and entertainment, Ridge offers generous compatibility in a space-saving format. It can house GPUs up to a length of 335 mm and has space for up to four 2.5" drives. Uncompromising accessibility and a well-structured interior layout make building in Ridge an intuitive experience. And to make it even easier, Ridge includes a PCIe 4.0 riser card, two 140 mm PWM Aspect fans and a USB type-C port.
For smooth operation, Ridge features ventilation on all six sides of the case, including a fabric front mesh and perforated top, bottom and side panels. It can also be placed horizontally or vertically, with two included feet, to flexibly integrate into gaming and entertainment spaces. An evolution of the slimline format, Ridge was developed in collaboration with gaming and entertainment enthusiasts to subtly improve their homes and enhance the small form factor PC experience.
[Editor's note: Our in-depth review of the Fractal Ridge is now live]
For more information, visit the product page.
For smooth operation, Ridge features ventilation on all six sides of the case, including a fabric front mesh and perforated top, bottom and side panels. It can also be placed horizontally or vertically, with two included feet, to flexibly integrate into gaming and entertainment spaces. An evolution of the slimline format, Ridge was developed in collaboration with gaming and entertainment enthusiasts to subtly improve their homes and enhance the small form factor PC experience.
For more information, visit the product page.
15 Comments on Fractal Announces the Ridge SFF Chassis
If you don't use a GPU and don't want case fans, that might work, but then again it won't as Impact doesn't work with iGPUs.
correction: it has the same CPU clearance of 70mm, so the SO-DIMM.2 will barely fit but not with its heatsinks.
In any event, Impact is a terrible choice for cases with severe cooling restrictions.
And yeah the m.2 card will be the issue ...
I guess the C8I will remain in the box then
As for the case, it's clean, but the fabric front is clearly 100% form over function. If you aren't going to make it a solid panel, then at least make it meshed, or even better fan mounts for 80mm fans. They clearly understand since that's exactly what they did for the top of the case, to help the GPU.
Also, 12.6L is kinda big. The P-ATX is what, 10L with ATX support? Smarter ventilation too.
The Ridge is actually better suited for this new gen of GPU, a lot of not so old SFF case have become "obsolete" when ADA GPU dimensions were revealed. The creators of the Dan case and Ncase m1 had to go back to their drawing board to ensure that people could fit at least a few 40x0 SKUs