Silverstone Raven 3

[dorion]

Picked this awesome case up last Friday after finding out it existed.

Pros:
I am 5 degree temperature drops on the CPU at load... and the ambient is higher right now then it was last week when I primed.
It has this concept my 6 year old Antec case never really got called cable management.
My DVI-VGA adapters fit!
So much air flow.

Cons:
The screws come in one bag... bastards.
With a Noctua NH-D14 I had to remove the drive cages to attach the central fan's clip. Removing the drive cages means removing the rear drive mounts, its an arduous process which I need to do again because I forgot to plug in a fan underneath my cooler.
The manual does not tell you how to plug it in... its a recessed plug underneath the cable in front.

I got a great deal from FrozenCPU, I have a quality case, and it looks like the body armor from the Lost in Space remake.

Who else has a Raven?

 

[llee]

The design of the case reminds me of the latest Alienware chassis.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Have a Raven 2 - a little curious regarding relative performance as they seem to have downsized the case a bit. Happy enough with this case that I don't expect to switch any time soon, however.

 

[Dorkenstein]

I'd check one out but I hear that non-reference video cards suffer in these rotated cases. Also, this case seems to have even more fan capacity than the RV-02 and the FT-02.

 

[dorion]

Unless these non-reference GPU are spitting all their heat out the back of the card(ie. towards the fans) I can't see them suffering that much. The 6990 and 590 might be a little weird, but there is tons of air flow deal with the backdraft they make.

So far I love it, I was able to turn down the CPU voltage because its so cool in there... at least I think I could do that because of the new case.

 

[dac7nco]

I like it's looks, and I like that it's EATX for 12x13. I don't like the sculpted 5.25" bay covers. I use backplanes in those bays, and they would look incredibly ugly in that case.

Daimon

 

[muskie32]

It looks cool... But not my type.