Fractal Design beautifies its steel-and-plastic case with a textured finish and aluminum door insert.

USB 3.0 is made possible on this case via a $10 upgrade part. Fractal Design is the only company in today’s test to use the now-universal internal USB 3.0 interface, and almost qualifies for an “automatic design win” because of that, if not for the fact that this part must be purchased separately. Unfortunately, it's not yet available, though Fractal Design says it'll go on sale in June through Newegg.

The included installation kit contains a wide variety of screws, a fan controller, cable ties, and a 3.5” front-panel adapter plate. The drive adapter itself is factory-installed in one of the 5.25” bays.

Each drive tray comes with rubber dampers, used with shoulder screws in the installation kit. These dampers may be moved to alternative holes, depending on how the drive tray is oriented. No dampers are used for 2.5” drives, since the option is intended to support noiseless SSD drives.

Optical drives screw directly into the Define XL’s 5.25” bays, following the methods discussed in How To Build A PC.

Fractal Design felt that its case didn’t need additional fans in order to do its job, but nonetheless provides additional fan mounts in its design. The company sent along a 120 mm and 140 mm fan to be used as intakes in an alternative test configuration, using the case’s 5.25” bay adapter and side-panel mount.

- Helping Define The High-End Experience
- Building With The Antec Sonata IV
- Building With The BitFenix Colossus
- Building With The Fractal Design Define XL
- Building With The Lian Li PC-B25S
- Building With The NZXT H2 Classic
- Building With The SilverStone Raven 2 Evolution
- Test System Configuration
- Benchmark Results: Noise And Heat
- Conclusion
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Another big plus with the Fortress 2 is the inclusion of sound dampening foam on every panel, but to be entirely honest with you, due to the open nature of the case, I'm really not sure how much sound it's actually dampening.
Hell, yes! About time, pushing those extreme overclocks!
Marty, I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 34.5 gigahertz of electricity is a bolt of lightning... (begin back to the future theme song!)
I bet they were overclocking from Pluto.
Didn't you watch the news? Astronomers sent a dwarf in a rocket to remove Pluto so it doesn't exist anymore.
This conclusion makes no sense. Why do "computing professional gamers" need storage.
And further the case holds 5 HDDs. That's 1 SSD + 4x2TB of storage.
Fractal or Raven? This is harder one.
You mean 5x2TB. It holds 5 HDDs and a SSD.
Also, the FT02, although more expensive, should have been used due to the extra sound dampening material.
Do a case with good electromagnetic and noise insulation. With good cooling.
What materials are better? Is electromagnetic insulation that important? (so, is necessary a conductive -metallic- case?)
how do you solve the precise location of backward holes (for motherboard, and boards).
how do you make the holes for different form factors (hint: there are standards)
etc. there is a lot to talk. You can make a cheap case much better than the trademark garbage sold.