More Pics of SilverStone's Kickass Raven Case
We seriously can't get enough of SilverStone's new line of Cases: the Fortress and Raven 2 series.
There are endless cases you can choose from, and to be honest, a lot of PC cases are just terrible. There are some that merely look good on the outside, but the insides are poorly designed. Bad air flow, bad internal structure, poor quality craftsmanship--there are a lot of companies out there that just want to make a quick buck.
We're not about cutting corners here.
After my last article about SilverStone's Fortress case, some of you asked for more pictures of the Raven 2 case. Here there are, including a shot of how air flows out of the unit. The motherboard's backplane faces upwards in the case, and there is a standard 120mm fan that provides exhaust flow.
Both the Fortress and Raven 2 have an upwards cable management system. Both cases have a top lid that covers the cables and they're routed to the rear of the case through an opening. The top lid provides roughly 3 inches of moving room, so you won't have to worry about over bending thick cables. The motherboard mount actually seats the board an inch down from the top surface of the case.
The back side of both the Fortress and Raven 2 case contains mounting braces for a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drive. On the Raven 2, you can see that SilverStone has mounted an SSD from OCZ.
Internally, the Fortress has a vertically mounted HDD SATA back-plane system whereas the Raven 2 does not. While the Raven 2 looks great in stealth-black, the Fortress has a slightly better internal design. Nevertheless, these two cases would win our Computex's Choice award, if we had one. Instead, we're giving SilverStone the Tom's Hardware 2009 Excellence award.





It's like a woman, (or a man, if you're a woman). Even if she's quiet and cool, you still don't want her if she's ugly. It's reality. They need to spend more time on making cases attractive, since we tend to look at them more than our significant other (or about the same if we hide the computer under the desk).
Hah! How about running your articles past a proof-reader before publication, then?
I have 5 120mm fans including the one 120mm fan on my CPU cooler. I think it is necessary as my case stays cool and the noise is down with low RPM fans which move lots of air.
1 gtx 260, one Antec 1200.
my thoughts exactly...I get it that maybe no one thought to try it before but is a different orientation really "revolutionary"? maybe I missed something though.
And 8 expansions slots is nice, but when I we going to see the expanded ATX form factor with 10 expansion slots? Seems like with chipsets having some 40+ PCIe lanes, we could benefit pretty soon. I mean, if I'm designing a new multi-hundred dollar case, I'm gonna think towards the future.
I own a Raven RV01, and my graphic cards get pretty hot in that case.
Did a side-vent mod without adding a fan to it, but still, temps on the cards only dropped by small numbers.
At least they only go to 74C now, vs the 85C + without side-vent holes.
When I remove the top and side temps drop down to around 65C.
All temps are under full load condition temperatures after min 1 hour of gaming, and my GTX260's set to nVidia reference speeds.
At the moment I consider to add a 200mm exhaust fan on the side, since that seems to be the main problem with the RV01 case.
It simply can't transfer the heat out fast enough.