Silverstone Raven RV01

[pandora's box]

Case upgrade time!

Retiring the old Antec 900 (first revision), and replacing it with the Silverstone Raven RV01.

Initial impressions of the Raven is, omg its MASSIVE! For perspective I could sit in the box in came in (6'4" 200lb guy) haha. Installing my hardware into this case was incredibly easy, as was cable management. Attempting to hide cables on my old Antec 900 was a nightmare heh.

My one fear with buying this case was that the case only has 1 120mm fan for outtake. Since I use a Corsair H50 CPU cooler I feared using it would block hot air escaping the system. After I installed my H50 cooler I noticed that it really wasnt restricting too much air exiting the case and installing a second fan on the radiator (push/pull config) solved the issue.

I read in reviews that the front door can be noisy when opening and closing. I found this to be true but you have to ask yourself, how many times do you use a DVD drive in a year? My answer: maybe once when reinstalling windows, heh.

Enough talk, time for some pictures

Finally, the most important part, temps!

Room temperature was 22C
Really happy with this case.

 

[MissJ84]

Nice case photos and temps!
I went from the 902 to the FT02, also had the same initial worries and run about the same temps.

 

[Dirk13]

I am so glad you posted this, this is a case I was looking into. I am very happy to see that it has a front door, the pics I saw on new egg did not show it.

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[pandora's box]

I am so glad you posted this, this is a case I was looking into. I am very happy to see that it has a front door, the pics I saw on new egg did not show it.

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yeah its nice being able to hide your dvd drives, makes for a nice sleek look. just be aware the door does make some noise when you push it down and when it rolls back up. i hear you can use WD-40 to silence it.