Complete System
Total build time on the Air 240 was a breezy 30 minutes. For a chassis of this size I often find the builds take longer as there isn’t much room to move components around on the interior, but since half of the components are tucked away in the rear section of the chassis, space wasn’t an issue.
That 290mm GPU clearance was pushed to its limits not only because I took up some space mounting a H100i in the front, but also because we mounted this huge Sapphire R9 270X in there. It was a bit of a squeeze getting it in, but it fits and that is all that matters.
Airflow around the system should be superb thanks to some extremely neat and tidy cable management. Of course I’m not sure feeding our GPU with warm air from the front radiator is ideal, but there are two fan mounts directly below the GPU that could easily bring more fresh air into the system.
I had to inverse mount the radiator so that the CPU block would fit, but that’s hardly an issue and overall I think the front section of the build looks pretty awesome. It is neat and tidy and there is loads of room for airflow and certainly a lot more room for extra fans should you need them.
Around the back it’s pretty neat and tidy too, there is a vast amount of space here to take care of excess cables.
Our ATX PSU proved no problem for this chassis and you should have no trouble fitting some of the larger 1000w+ PSU products that are on the market if you really needed to.
Here you can see our 3.5″ drive in the drive caddy at the back.
Our 2.5″ ADATA SSD in the other caddy.
All side panels back in place and you can just about see our PSU peeking through the ventilated section of the panel.
The lightly tinted side panel window gives a nice view of the interior.
The clean cable routing, high quality black interior finish and high contrasting white exterior really shows off this build nicely and for those who love to throw some LED lighting into their rig, the Air 240 is a case that will really stand out from the crowd, a fantastic looking build overall.
I’ve just finished building a system for a customer using this case as we speak and to be honest, I’m not quite as impressed with it as you are Peter. Ignoring some of the finer issues, the thing that jarred me the most were the flimsy, paper thin side panels, it’s not what I expected from a product with such a premium price tag.
Overall I liked the case and the thoughtful touches such as the ‘stay put’ thumb screws but why didn’t they do the same for the top cover?
I don’t see the point in those fixed-screws on some panels and not the others either, its strange. Can’t say I thought the panels were all that bad tbh, build quality was good overall, but compared to the metal panels on Fractal stuff etc, yeah, they’re flimsy :-p
If this card is a Sapphire Toxic R9 270X 2GB… then isn’t it 308mm in length? Please can someone confirm if this is the Sapphire Toxic edition as I want to fit a Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti OC Windforce 3GB into this case, which is 292mm in length. Thank you 🙂
Is that the Sapphire Toxic R9 270X 2GB GPU installed in this case? If so, it is 308mm in length! Please can someone confirm if the GPU installed is the Toxic version of the R9 270X as I would like to install a Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti OC Windforce GPU into this case, which is 292mm in length. Thank you 🙂
Did the power cables for the graphics card touch the window panel?
That is one of my concerns on this case…