Cooler Master HAF X

Man that looks nice!
I would liked to have seen them use 230mm fans on the top and the sides.. to go along with the front. i have no idea why they didnt.

Likely they didn't see much improvement in the potential cooling difference or overall noise. For the most part, I don't hear the fans themselves on my 932, I just hear air movement.

Also, Wes, one thing you may want to fix in the article is the references to 35 lbs. That is the shipping weight, 31.6 lbs is the actual "carry" weight. Not to say that it isn't a heavy !@#$% still!

I like the "small things" they've done. The panel that slides over the power button and GPU cooling ducts both seem like very welcome additions over previous designs.

Wow this case has alot of new features. They painted the interior ++ and USB 3.0 ++

Not to be too off subject, just another one of those growing ideas. I got a email from bit tech this morning featuring the case, So i read that article. Before ever logging onto Lanoc, Maybe a email blast before launch, might help draw more viewers.

As the resident Tech noob, i have to ask, will we all need to buy new 3.0 USB flashdrives to take advantage of this increase in technology, or are the thumb drives already being made to be able to used the 3.0 speeds (i'm assuming that's what the difference is)?

Looks pretty slick, especially all those fans and their sizes. To bad I don't have an extra 200 bucks or so laying around or I would totally replace my current McGruber'ed tower case with this guy. Looks so clean and awesome especially the cable routing they have.

You menetion that there are 9 PCI slots and no motherboard has that. The EVGA Classified SR-2 requires 9, and what an awesome board it is:

www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=27...1&family=Motherboard Family&series=Intel 5520 Series Family

Maybe the reason the HAF X was created in the first place?

Twodavez wrote:

As the resident Tech noob, i have to ask, will we all need to buy new 3.0 USB flashdrives to take advantage of this increase in technology, or are the thumb drives already being made to be able to used the 3.0 speeds (i'm assuming that's what the difference is)?

I'm missed your question earlier. The drive has to be USB 3 to see any benefit. The ports are backwards compatible, so you can still use your old stuff without any problems.

garfi3ld wrote:

also to add to that, we have a USB 3.0 hard drive in the upcoming review lineup. You will be able to see the performance difference there also.

woot!