Fractal Ridge

Fractal Ridge is console layout Mini-ITX case at 12.6L in volume. The case uses steel construction and comes in black or white. The Ridge is priced at US$129 / £129 and is available on Newegg & Scan.

SPECIFICATIONS

MODELRidge
PRICEUS$129 / £129
DIMENSIONSL:74 x W:110 x H:395.4mm (including case stand)
VOLUME12.6 Litres
MATERIALSSteel
CASE I/O2x USB 3.0
1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C
1x Audio/Microphone (combo jack)
MOTHERBOARDMini-ITX
CPU COOLER70mm
EXPANSION SLOTS3
GPUL:335mm (325mm with 2.5″ drive installed)
W:57mm (82mm without 25mm thick fans installed)
RISERPCIe 4.0 (included)
RADIATORS120mm (175mm GPU) / 280mm (without GPU)
POWER SUPPLYSFX / SFX-L
CASE FANSTop: 3x 80mm
Side: 2x 120/140mm (2x 140x25mm included)
2.5″ / 3.5″ DRIVES4x 2.5″
DUST FILTERS (INC)N

We have only a few minor complaints regarding the Fractal Ridge.

  • The front I/O cables are excessively long in our opinion and makes cable management more difficult than it needs to be.
  • The side panels are particularly flexible and susceptible to bending, although this wasn’t really noticeable once panels were secured.

On positive note: the Ridge is easy to build in and surprising spacious. It definitely shares some of the visual class of the Fractal North. We also experienced no issues with the PCIe 4.0 riser cards, as Fractal have addressed this with latest batch of cases.

BUILD #1

CASEFractal Ridge (paid link)
MOTHERBOARDRog Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (paid link)
CPUR7 7700X / R5 7600X (paid link)
CPU COOLERThermalright AXP120-X67 + NF-A12x15 (paid link)
GPUNvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE
PSU Extreme 850R / Corsair SF750 (paid links)
CABLESSFF Cables by CableMod (affiliate)
RAM32GB Gskill DDR5, 6000MHz, CL30 (paid link)
STORAGE2x 1TB NVME’s (paid link)

BUILD #2

CASEFractal Ridge (paid link)
MOTHERBOARDRog Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (paid link)
CPUR7 7800X3D (paid link)
CPU COOLERNH-L12S (paid link)
GPURX 6900XT (paid link)
PSU Extreme 850R / Corsair SF750 (paid links)
CABLESSFF Cables by CableMod (affiliate)
RAM32GB Gskill DDR5, 6000MHz, CL30 (paid link)
STORAGE1TB NVME + 2TB NVME (paid links)

CONCLUSIONS

Fractal Ridge is visually pleasing, has excellent hardware compatibility for its form factor, and good build quality. It’s easily the best console layout Mini-ITX case available at the time of writing. TLDR: it’s awesome.