A Closer Look – Exterior
The be quiet! 900 series is certainly attention-grabbing, with an amazing exterior design that is twinned with the fact that it’s bloody massive, so it’s going to be virtually impossible to ignore. There is a huge tempered glass window down the left side, and another one on the front. There’s also a pillarless design on the front corner, so nothing gets in the way of the view of your hardware.
The front panel has a lot going on too, with the I/O panel placed alongside the tempered glass, I’d say it’s running vertically, but this case can be rotated every which way!
There are also four lines of lighting that run down the front, and this is actually part of the ventilation, not just the aesthetics. I think it looks great with the lighting off, but honestly, wait until you see it later in this review with the power turned on, it’s rather striking. Up on the top of the case, you’ll find that RGB line design runs along the case, and on the underside too. This works well in vertical mode, but will also look more like a base/plinth when the case is in a horizontal orientation. Even the be quiet! logo is illuminated when powered up.
There’s a similar lines design along the air intakes too, with the top of the case offering up a huge area for airflow, with support for 140mm fans and radiators up to 420mm in the top of the case. However, there’s a similar design on the bottom of the case you can get yet another 420mm radiator here. Of course, if you have the case horizontal, that would mean a 420mm radiator on the left and right side rather than the top and bottom.
If that’s not enough, there’s yet more ventilation on this massive right side panel, with room for up to a 360mm radiator here. It’s unlikely you’re going to use three massive AIO coolers in one build, but you could. Of course, for those using a custom loop design, it’s going to allow for an impressive loop configuration.
Around the back, you really get a sense of the scale of this case. The rear I/O look pretty tiny in relation to the rest of it! There’s also a fan mount which supports either a 120mm or 140mm design.
Below that, there are a lot of expansion slots, since this motherboard supports XL and E-ATX motherboards. All eight of the slots are metal, ventilated and reusable, not that I was expecting cheap snap-off ones on such a premium case!
The case uses a dual chamber design, so the PSU actually mounts behind the motherboard, which seems a little strange to have it so high, but we’ll see what else is going on behind the motherboard on the next page.
