SILVERSTONE SUGO MINI ITX TOWER CABINET SST-SG13B

Silverstone is toward the top of case manufacturers that we consider when building a new PC thanks to past favorites including the Raven RV02-E, Fortress FT02 and Temjin TJ07. Of all its lines, the company’s Mini-ITX ‘Sugo’ series stands out for being consistently surprising.

The first Sugo (the SG01) launched back in 2005 and impressed us by cutting the 65L capacity of Silverstone’s FT02 down to only 22L while still accommodating the era’s high-end gaming hardware. The company has since built on that success with over half a dozen iterations.

The SG01’s initial successor arrived in 2009 as the remarkably compact 10.8L SG05, which sparked a do-it-yourself Mini-ITX revolution alongside other enclosures of its kind as gamers set out to cram increasingly powerful systems inside cases the size of a shoe box.