A Detailed Look at the HAF Stacker 925 Chassis (Cont’d)
The 925 chassis comes with one Cooler Master 140mm exhaust fan pre-installed on the rear panel. The 8 + 1 expansion card configuration features vented slot covers which are held in place with thumb screws. The two large openings with rubber seals in the floor of the 925 allow for cable pass through when stacked on top of another Stacker module.
There are three tool-less 5.25” drive bays at the top in the front with two 3.5” drive bays located underneath. Each drive bay contains three drive trays. The tool-less design allows mounting 3.5” devices directly via pre-installed steel pins by just flexing the plastic tray. Alternately, 2.5” devices can be mounted into the trays with the supplied machine screws. And mounting for a tenth 2.5” SSD is provided behind the motherboard tray.
Both of the 3.5” drive cages are removable.
Flipping the HAF 935 enclosure upside down shows off the four large rubber feet (two per removable rail), which gives the 935 good stability. There is a vented area below the power supply that is protected by an easy to remove and washable dust filter.
very Beautiful!!
very Beautiful!!
I think once you get into
I think once you get into multiple stacks of computers, you should probably just buy a rack…
that thing probably stands
that thing probably stands above your waist!
That can probably support a
That can probably support a desk it’s so high!
I like the stack idea! Would
I like the stack idea! Would be nice if the cost would be less and more connection options would be available.
Now, hence the stacked model (HAF Stacker 915F) is for mini-ITX, it won’t work for me. What happened if you want an SLI configurations? Board won’t fit even if you use PCIe Riser cables. (far as I know, the smallest SLI x2 is a Micro-ATX)
It was also odd to see the motherboard at the bottom. I understand the design choices for the PSU and Fan location. But wouldn’t this allow more dust to settle on the mobo? That design also removes access to cool air from the bottom to enter.
Humm…
Would be cool to have a
Would be cool to have a dedicated streaming machine stacked on top of your gaming rig.
The small case/system up top
The small case/system up top running the KVM and hosting whatever OS/s is/are needed for general use, and the lower big rig system running a streamlined gaming OS, and the gaming CPUs/GPUs, the gaming segment OS running headless server style on its own hardware, but under the control of the main OS, running on the top system’s VM, with the lower system free of any bloatware or unnecessary for gaming services, i.e. Steam OS on the gaming system, or other OS if the user does not mind the un-removable bloat. These modular cases could make for a nice little home basic computing/gaming cluster, short of going to a completely rack based configuration.
When I first saw this a while
When I first saw this a while back, I thought you could just add extra space on top or below the case, like modular drive bays, etc.
Keep all the drives and PSU on the bottom of the computer with the big area dedicated to hardware, etc, and the top piece for liquid cooling… I suppose you COULD mod this to do that…