This Time On: Engineering Marvels

Okay, then we got the glass panel off without dropping it and establish what looks like a clean and simple layout. In that location doesn't appear to be much happening on the surface until y'all beginning pulling information technology apart and quickly realize that everything tin can come out.

Let's start with the motherboard tray. Equally expected, it'south fully removable and depending on your preference can be put back in upside down, though you'd accept to fully disassemble the case. Nonetheless, before yous become all inverted there are a few customizable options for the more traditional layout, though these apply to the inverted layout as well.

The motherboard tray tin be repositioned vertically at one of three dissimilar heights to suit individual infinite requirements. Naturally you can besides fully remove the motherboard tray to install the key components outside the case, such as the motherboard, processor, libation and memory for example. The tray supports Eastward-ATX and Xl-ATX motherboards, so even big workstation boards are supported.

Some more standard motherboard tray features include a huge cutout which allows for installation of third party coolers without having to remove the motherboard. There are also three large cablevision direction holes complete with rubberized grommets. The grommets are color-coded orange if you select the orange model, presumably the black and silverish models just have blackness grommets.

More than orangish safety grommets can be establish on the hard drive cages, though they are of a much different design. The rubber grommets on the drive cages are designed to reduce vibration and therefore eliminate unwanted racket. Like the balance of the case, the drive cages are very flexible. There are seven in total just you are free to configure the instance with any number of them in any position. Each cage supports either a single 3.5" bulldoze or a pair of two.5" drives.

In total the Dark Base of operations Pro 900 tin can handle two five.25" drives, 7 3.5" drives and up to 15 2.5" drives -- damn is that a lot of SATA SSDs. Of course if you don't need that much storage, then you are best off removing the cages to improve airflow.

With the hard bulldoze cages installed it's still possible to install graphics cards as long as 323mm, which is pretty much all of them. Still, if you take some kind of monster card then removing the drive cages behind the PCI Express slot in question will afford y'all 472mm of headroom.

In terms of cooling, the Dark Base Pro 900 comes preloaded with iii SilentWings iii fans. These 140mm PWM fans characteristic a unique fan blade design, rubberized fan frame and funnel shaped air inlets which Be Tranquility! says provide excellent air circulation. They also say the 6-pole fan motor with fluid dynamic bearings reduces power consumption and vibration.

Likewise the pre-installed fans users can also throw a few fans in the top console. Actually, the options here are numerous as it'due south possible to install three 140mm fans, four 120mm fans, a single 180mm fan or one 200mm fan. If yous remove the five.25" drive bay an boosted front 140mm fan can exist installed and depending on your ability supply length, 120mm or 140mm fans can besides be installed in the bottom.

There are a number of radiator options bachelor for those going down the liquid cooling route. The front end can back up radiators as long as 420mm and the same is true for the top panel. It's possible to squeeze a 280mm radiator in the lesser and a 140mm radiator in the rear.

Every bit I said, depending on the ability supply length you can install a fan or radiator in the bottom of the Nighttime Base Pro 900. The length tin can be no greater than 150mm if you wish to install boosted cooling in the bottom. Nonetheless, if this isn't acceptable then foregoing any cooling options hither will allow the ability supply to span upwardly to 284mm long.

The only other pinnacle restriction applies to the CPU libation which tin can stand no taller than 185mm before risking contact with the glass console. This should still be ample room for fifty-fifty the most extreme tower style coolers, any larger and they take chances destroying the motherboard y'all would think.

When information technology comes to cablevision management, the Night Base Pro 900 has yous well covered, which isn't surprising for a case of this size. Even so, backside the motherboard tray you will detect a very spacious 20mm of clearance for tucking away excess wires.

Also institute hiding behind the motherboard tray is a pocket-sized PCB panel that's your one-stop-shop for everything LED and fan-related. The supplied LED strip lights plug in hither and this allows the front panel to command the lighting. The Qi charger also plugs in here along with pretty much every fan you are going to install.

The three pre-installed fans are already hooked up and they utilize iv-pin connectors, this leaves a fourth iv-pin connector free. Yet, there are also an additional four three-pivot fan headers too, which means you tin can claw upwards a further five fans to the fan controller on acme of the three that come with the example.