Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Full Tower Case with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (RC-932-KKN5-GP)
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Manufacturer: CoolermasterAudio: English (Original Language)
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Model: RC-932-KKN5-GP
Product features:
- The HAF932 features a fully-rugged appearance and is housed in a tough casing to offer outstanding protection.
- A rugged HAF932 comes equipped to operate with unparalleled thermal performance.
- Patented finger-press buttons for quickly maintaining or upgrading 5.25 inch drive devices.
- Features two SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectors at the front, for speeds ten times faster than conventional USB 2.0 (requires Motherboard or Expansion Card with USB 3.0 support).
- Removable HDD racks and cable management system for better cable routing and neatness.
- New Black Interior gives the HAF 932 an upscale look, this case means business!
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Customer Review: It's big, and it's a friggin thing. A big freakin' thing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a computer case, it's big as hell and meant to be used for the heavy high-end systems that generate lots of heat. That's why you're looking here. Me being me, I offer thee the most in-depth and personalized account on this thing possible.
Let's start somewhere: It cools.
My previous computer case was the original system default, an HP thingy that was about 14-15 inches tall and about 16-18 inches long. I had a motherboard, with a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT video card, three hard drives, one disc drive, a Corsair HX620W power supply unit, and only one 80 or 90mm system fan. Everything was packed in tightly, crammed in dangerously. I was lucky the video card kept an average idle temperature of 60-65 degrees celsius. When playing games like Empire Total War or The Sims 3, the temperature reached 80 degrees celsius.
So of course this one is going to be cooler. It has an average idle temperature of 45-50 degrees celsius, and when playing those same games mentioned above, it will RARELY go above 60 degrees celsius. That is a HUGE drop, to a point where on the previous case, the video card's fan would be near full blast and incredibly noisy, on this one it's barely on.
This segues into the other thing: The system has four huge fans, one on top, one on the right, one on the back, and one on the front. They run very quietly. Very quietly. The whole system is about as quiet as the old case was with its one 80-90mm fan.
The case is gargantuan, nearly two feet long and tall. It weighs at least 50 pounds with everything piled into it, and there's a lot of free space around it. The right panel has a little window you can peer through, though if you're not using many of the free slots for disk drives, you can peer through the mesh into the system.
The case claims to have tool-free-ness, and I guess that's right. The area to add video cards or expansions onto the motherboard is merely a black clip that can easily snap on or off with snugness. The disk drives don't need to be drilled in, as the front panel can simply be snapped off from the side, the disk drive slid in, and a button pressed to lock it into place.
Hard disc drives can go beneath this, to be put in from the side, needing to have the other side panel taken off in order to organize the wires cleanly. the slots have little trays that you can place your hard disc drive on. They have holes on the sides with weird-looking metal things with rubber around the head. I have no idea what these are supposed to do, as they don't work to be pushed into a hard drive's screw holes. I just removed them and drilled it in. I guess you don't need to drill it, but it's there for a reason. You can't drill them in completely, as the tray is too wide for an average hard drive, and so either it will be too far away for one side's screws, or you will bend the center strip of the plastic.
Unlike other reviewers, my case didn't come defective in any way. There weren't any bends or distortions in the metal.
However, what is very important in mentioning is to have some experience in putting stuff in a case beforehand!
The instruction manual included is an incoherent jibbity-mess, and you can expect no help in any details, but you'll arbitrarily get a full page or two of instructions on how to REMOVE the big-ass fans. Why? There's no benefit to including this in the instruction manual---they're not there for packing material or practice, they're there to do something, and anyone who would remove them would clearly have a better solution for cooling that they wouldn't even need to consult the manual on how to remove them!
The manual seems to imply that the power supply unit should go up top. However, this clearly interferes with the top fan, and would need to have that fan completely removed. Then it says that an OPTIONAL additional PSU can be added to the bottom. Placing your main PSU at the bottom renders this completely nonsensical nonsense that is totally unnecessary.
The back panel has four big fat screws keeping in the side panels. I have no idea how these screws function---sometimes just drilling them has them come off, whereas I can be twirling them about right and left and it will never tighten or loosen. Last night, I nearly broke it trying to yank the screw out. Now, it's hanging on in a very snug fit, but not very tight---it can still be unscrewed by hand. Turning it right does not tighten it. Neither does turning it left. It just sometimes tightens.
Another problem: Something in the front panel, maybe the e-SATA slot, takes up a SATA cable slot on my motherboard, which only has four of them. This means I had to leave off my third hard drive from the installation.
That's pretty much it for now.
Seriously, if you have any questions about the thing, leave a comment there and I'll address it.
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