Interior
The doors on the HAF X open a little bit differently to most cases; instead of sliding towards the rear of the case, the doors open by pivoting the rear of the doors outwards and then removing. Once removed we can see the inside has some unique added extras and everything is colour coded to match the exterior in black.
The other side opens up in the same fashion and shows the room available for cable management. For users who change their motherboard components such as CPU coolers or processors will find that the cut-out hole for easy changing of these components is a real godsend. There are also rubber grommet style pass-throughs for your cables.
Inside we can see the cooling that makes up this case starting with the top fan which is a 200mm fan and is black to match the rest of the case and with it’s low RPM and low dBA sound level, this fan should be fantastic for airflow whilst keeping noise down.
The rear has a 140mm fan which once again is black and doesn’t feature any LED’s. Obviously this can be taken out and changed for a different fan but from what we’ve seen so far, the stock fans should be more than sufficient.
As said, there are rubber style grommets for passing your cables through and making the case as tidy as possible for all of your components.
There are plenty of included cables which plug into the front panel connectors. There is also a PCB style panel for connecting SATA data cables and a 4-pin Molex to give power to the dockable drive panels that are including in the set of 5.25″ drive bays.
Also included is a plastic shroud type device which hooks over your graphics cards and be be installed with an optional fan to give the most extreme cooling to any system.
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.