Completed SystemOnce the system has been built into the chassis you can admire your handy work though the window on the left side of the case.
The rear of the case shows how the USB 3.0 cables loop through one of the grommets.
As said earlier on, there are two trays that function as a socket station when a drive is installed.
When you turn the system on, you can toggle the fan LED to be on or off.
At night the red LED really gives off a fantastic look on the black case.
Taking the side off and looking at the fan inside, it really does look great in red.
You can see that once the side is off, there is ample room for cable management and things can be hidden quite nicely especially in terms of what’s on show through the window.
A big highlight of this case is that it can accept some of the largest graphics cards on the market.
As said earlier on in the review, the power supply has a fixture cover that hides any mess and arranges cabling as you can see it’s made things look very neat and tidy.
The docking aspect of the case and the rubber grommet style passthroughs for cable management keep functionality and cable tidying to the extreme.
The other side of the case shows off the mess of cables that will be hidden to the world.
SSD’s can be installed very simply and quickly using the top tray which features an adapter of sorts for locking the drive into place with screws.
The mechanical style hard drive is simply placed into the tray and locked down using the rubber pins, and then slides away into the cage and is accessed via the other side of the case.
It is not expensive when you look at the price for some other full tower cases
Some people would consider paying £125 is very expensive for a case. For us uber geeks, maybe not 😉
my 932 cost me about £125 from new
well as you know andy i have this very case and the only thing i can say is <span style="font-size: 15px;">I like big cases and i cannot lie U other geeks can't deny[SIZE=1][SIZE=2]the only thing i dont understand is why make it all tool less apart from the card ports </span>[/SIZE][/SIZE]thats my only gripe other than that i love it
It is a brilliant case considering its perfect for cable management + airflow, but the price does seem fairly steep, considering i got the CM scout + 700W Modular PSU for £130, this was my second choice. Its the only reason why i didn't get the HAF X the price, although i sorta regret it because of the space.
I am not one for paying to much on Pc components, but I do feel that you get what you pay for, and in this case, no pun intended I feel that you do. A gold award speaks for it's self. Ample cooling and I like the PSU cover and cable management over all great case for me.
You guy have to remember this is a full tower case which you can put the longest motherboards inside (Gigabyte X58 G1 Assassin and MSI P67 Big Bang Marshal) and you still have room for a push/pull 360 (6x 120mm fans) radiator for watercooling This is the cheapest full tower chassis on the market at the moment. I don't count the HAF 932 because it is the same chassis but with a different look :confused:
it would be good if review web sites were more critical about the usb 3.0 cables supplied. any case costing more than 100 and that does not connect to the 20 pin internal usb 3.0 header on all the new motherboards is not worth the money. connecting front usb ports to the back of the motherboard is from the middle ages.
Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower Chassis Review–Bundle – eTeknix.comSecond picture down on the left hand side. They cater for both.Some people will buy this and not have the header so they appeal to both.