I never quite understood the need for these types of backwards designs. Innovation is the disease of today (case and point: the steam controller). Different isn't always better. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This case is just another dust collector. Form and function is the name of this game. Fractal Design's Define R4 is my idea of a good--if not perfect--case, though it's not the most flashy case.
Are you referring to the rotated 90 degrees design to help cooling? Because a) that isn't very new anymore and b) it doesn't actually help. I can't remember who did it, but a website tested this out by turning a bunch of conventional designed cases on their side and measuring the improvement in cooling when the heat had a natural path upward. The results were... no difference.
I like the design because it puts the I/O panel on the top, and I'm kind of a sucker for thinking outside the box, but calling this design 'extremely effective' (right on page 1 of this review) sort of implies it's 'more' effective, when really it isn't.
I think perhaps you're confused as to how to install a PSU. Please see the images taken from this article and uploaded to an external site to preserve their hilarity.Bitvar, I don't think you interpreted the illustrations correctly. The flow of air from the PSU is going to the outside, albeit at a 90º angle due to the design of the case. Note the graphics card air flow is in the same direction.
Nope, it is you who are confused. Many cases are designed so the PSU can be mounted either way. It is a choice of which neither position is right or wrong.I think perhaps you're confused as to how to install a PSU.
Nope, it is you who are confused. Many cases are designed so the PSU can be mounted either way. It is a choice of which neither position is right or wrong.I think perhaps you're confused as to how to install a PSU.
Go read a few discussions on the topic and stop acting as if it is not a choice of which one works better for different people.You must be the author then. No one could willingly defend something so moronic unless they were ashamed of what they did.
I think perhaps you're confused as to how to install a PSU. Please see the images taken from this article and uploaded to an external site to preserve their hilarity.Bitvar, I don't think you interpreted the illustrations correctly. The flow of air from the PSU is going to the outside, albeit at a 90º angle due to the design of the case. Note the graphics card air flow is in the same direction.
Any and all technical articles from the author should be disregarded as he is clearly not qualified to talk about anything more complicated than a doorknob.
You must be the author then. No one could willingly defend something so moronic unless they were ashamed of what they did. There is literally no scenario with this case where the PSU could be considered "setup correct" as it is.
Are you referring to the rotated 90 degrees design to help cooling? Because a) that isn't very new anymore and b) it doesn't actually help. I can't remember who did it, but a website tested this out by turning a bunch of conventional designed cases on their side and measuring the improvement in cooling when the heat had a natural path upward. The results were... no difference.
I like the design because it puts the I/O panel on the top, and I'm kind of a sucker for thinking outside the box, but calling this design 'extremely effective' (right on page 1 of this review) sort of implies it's 'more' effective, when really it isn't.
If the standard case with front to back air flow is rotated, it then becomes bottom to top air flow. There is no blockage by the GPU as you mentioned.Im going to go as far as to say that the tests you saw were misleading. I haven't seen them but I was thinking a lot about how you would do them in a conventional case and it doesn't make sense. Cases with a normal mobo orientation almost always have strong front to back airflow for the case cooling. When you rotate the board, the gpu ends up being vertical and blocks a good deal of airflow that would normally go out the back.
If the standard case with front to back air flow is rotated, it then becomes bottom to top air flow. There is no blockage by the GPU as you mentioned.
You must be the author then. No one could willingly defend something so moronic unless they were ashamed of what they did. There is literally no scenario with this case where the PSU could be considered "setup correct" as it is.
As strange as it may sound, I actually took that as a compliment. I only wish I could write reviews as well as you guys do. Bitvar put me on a higher pedestal as far as I'm concerned.You must be the author then. No one could willingly defend something so moronic unless they were ashamed of what they did.