Need a living room friendly case for MicroATX.

[duartix]

Cheers.

Long time since I've been here. I'm stuck on an old Shuttle barebone and I need to upgrade. I'm not playing the proprietary case game any more so I was wondering if someone could point me to a living room friendly and stylish minimalistic design. Something that I can put some half serious power (an i5 or i7 and a good Fermi OpenCL rendering GPU, possibly a GTX 460).
I'd like to keep it as small as possible (within Micro ATX range) so I could upgrade it as needed.
Something along this volume: http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_photo.php?pno=SG02-F&area=usa
but with a little more evolved and minimalistic design like this:

The bottom line is:
 

• minimalistic and stylish design
• open standard (easily fit a Micro ATX motherboard)
• small (enough to fit a GTX 460)

HELP!
Please!

[tino]

The latest shuttle cases the H' Series is actually based on a non propitiatory design.

So you can use these cases with mini - itx motherboards in the future if you wish.

Other than that antec do a nice range.

[duartix]

The latest shuttle cases the H' Series is actually based on a non propitiatory design.
Other than that antec do a nice range.

The "H" series from what I've gathered seems like a proprietary Shuttle MB design  so it's out of the question.

I've been looking at Antec and Silverstone. Silverstone seems to have the kind of design I'm looking for but I was wondering if there were some more manufacturers to consider...

The best looking box I've ever owned was this Chyang Fun design about 8 years ago: http://www.dansdata.com/minipc.htm


I wonder why Shuttle (or any manufacturer BTW) never matched this kind of design.

[tino]

Shuttle expands the capabilities of its chassis, adding support for Mini-ITX motherboards(170 x 170mm or 6.7 x 6.7 inches). Now, the Shuttle chassis can go beyond the Shuttle motherboard. You can easily upgrade the motherboard to your desire.

Ok so if you bought a chassis now then you would need the motherboard with it, but in the future you could use a mini-ITX design.

Other than that there is the Qpack I believe and Antec did a design similar to the one you linked to.

[duartix]

Ok so if you bought a chassis now then you would need the motherboard with it, but in the future you could use a mini-ITX design.
Other than that there is the Qpack I believe and Antec did a design similar to the one you linked to.

I intend to use an of the shelf Micro ATX board so I'm not locked to any particular system but I doubt that a Mini-ITX would allow me to fit a decent enough GPU.
I peeked the QPack and even though it's a similar design, it's horrendous. I eventually found a cluster of interesting designs here: http://xoxide.com/hometheater.html
This one in particular looks atractive: