HAF 935 Mid-Section, Full-size ATX System (Cont’d)
Now that we have the back end of the HAF 935 filled up with hardware its time to populate some of the drive bays up front.
5.25” External ODD Bays
The HAF 935 mid-section has three 5.25” external bays at the top, each fitted with tool-free retention mechanisms. To install a 5.25” device in one of the three drive bays you first have to remove the front bezel (release tabs inside behind the bezel) and then pop out one or more bay covers. With the tool-free retention mechanism set to the OPEN position a 5.25” device just slides in and locks into place when the tool-free latch mechanism is set to the LOCK position.
3.5” Internal Drives
The Cooler Master HAF 935 mid-section has two 3.5” drive cages mounted behind the front panel and below the 5.25” bays. Both drive cages can be removed if desired (see Part 1). Each drive cage contains three trays, which slide in and out and latch into position.
Each plastic tray comes with four steel pins pre-installed in rubber grommets for mounting 3.5” drives. To mount a 3.5” HDD you just flex the plastic tray and drop the drive into position so the four steel pins engage the screw holes in the sides of the drive. Alternately, you can mount a 2.5” SSD in the back corner of a tray using the provided machine screws (after removing the steel pin in the back corner).
There is also a dedicated 2.5” SSD bay located behind the motherboard tray. A single device can be mounted here using two machine screws.
Peltier!? Gosh thats
Peltier!? Gosh thats insane….
Well it would be awesome if
Well it would be awesome if you had a PWM controled Peltier, which keeps the water temperature around 1°C so nothing freezes in or outside. Well I still dought its worth it, but it would be “cool”
You could use a heat
You could use a heat exchanger water plate between the cold peltier side and the water loop (with antifreeze) and solve the condensation problem. Also, this would allow sub zero water to be used from the peltier without introducing into your actual cpu cooling loop. I think the frozen website has one for sale.
Nice detailed info. I didn’t
Nice detailed info. I didn’t realise that the cutout behind the motherboard was to help with CPU/APU cooler setups. I guess I’m old fashion.
I am a little confused about “The HAF 935 enclosure provides plenty of room around the motherboard area for installing one or more VGA cards.” Do you mean room for large GPU cards? I don’t remember seeing a VGA port on those GPU cards (GTX TITAN).
Sorry – wasn’t trying to
Sorry – wasn't trying to confuse anyone. Old habit of using VGA as a generic term for Video Graphics Adapters (technically VGA stands for Video Graphics Array) – my bad. And you are correct, those Titan graphics adapters don't sport any VGA ports!
Who cares? Why do I need
Who cares? Why do I need this? I’m not running a 2-p or 4-p server at home. What audience is this big case targeted at?
In this regressing economy, it’s dangerous to recommend people to waste money on crap they don’t need. Whether it’s buying expensive graphics cards or cases, or CPUs, it’s all a waste of money. We in the Western world are losing our industrial base, and our jobs, both technical and non-technical, are flying away to those developing countries. This is not the time to think about ways to waste money…
I do see this case in my near
I do see this case in my near future 😉
Good review of a definitely
Good review of a definitely intriguing product. If you’re going to go monster with a full-size, I like this outside-the-box case design. The possibilities ….
Definitely not for people without imagination.
This case opened my mind to
This case opened my mind to the possibility of setting up a water cooled gaming rig and then a smaller one for a virtual box server with a asrock avaton MB, that hosts a test lab environment and then even another for a plex media server with all my movies and music, and even another for a backup server. This would “de-clutter” various servers/towers laying around into one corner of your man/woman cave. It might even have the power to save a marriage too!
It’d be cool if someone could
It’d be cool if someone could come up with a peltier cooling system that could measure dew point. That way you could run the system as cool as the current dew point would allow. I remember coming across a website a while ago where they were programming a microcontroller to do just that but it never came together.
Does anyone know if there’s
Does anyone know if there’s any restrictions on stacking two 925’s on top of each other? I want one for a media centre with 9 hdd’s and another as a gaming rig with with 2x 970 in sli.