Category: Cases
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In-Win H-Frame Mini-ITX chassis review
In-Win’s H-frame ITX chassis caught people’s attention in early 2013 for it’s striking looks, and today we got our hands on one to review.
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Silverstone FT-03 Mini Overview or Mini Review
With the massive increase in how useful mini-ITX boards are has come a corresponding increase in chassis to fit them, all of which are challenged by dissipating a full-sized-desktop CPU worth of heat in a small space. Add in a GPU and other components and you have quite a difficult proposition – getting the right…
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Fractal Design Define R4 Review – Part Two
As promised, here’s part two of our review! We’re building one of our standard test systems using this chassis and the following components: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard Intel i7-3770K CPU @ 4.5GHz 8GB G-skill Ares 2133MHz RAM (2x4GB) Corsair H100 self-contained liquid cooling Crucial M4 SSDs Seasonic X-560 PSU AMD HD6450 Click through…
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Fractal Design Define R4 Review – Part One
If you’re in the market for an understated, quiet case that performs well and leaves plenty of room for expansion the Fractal Design Define series is quite likely to be on your list of cases to investigate. The latest revision of the case is R4, which draws upon user feedback on the R3…
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Fractal Design Define R4: Does a Corsair H100 cooler fit in the front?
With the release of the Fractal Design Define R4 we have been asked a few times about whether Corsair’s self-contained liquid cooling system will fit in the front. Placement here has a few advantages over placing it in the top of the chassis; noise is reduced, for a start, and if you use…
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Fractal Design Define R4: Removing all of the front drive trays
Someone asked how we removed the hard drive bays in the Fractal Design R4 builds we’re doing at the moment, so we wrote up a quick post for those who are wondering. If you want to install a radiator to the front of the R4 or are simply using a handful of SSDs…
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Fractal Design Define R4 vs. R3: Size Matters
Here is a comparison of the Define R3 and R4, side by side – the R4 is the larger, black case and the R3 is in white. When the front panels are lined up like so… The rears meet like so: Same length! As for the width: As you…